Nawab Faizunnesa's Rupjalal /
"Nawab Faizunnesa (1834-1903) challenged established notions regarding women's position in a Muslim society in colonial Bengal. Her RupJalal was the first literary text written by a Bengali Muslim woman. The translated text is placed in the historical context of colonialism and the nationa...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English Bengali |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Series: | Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ;
v. 7. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "Nawab Faizunnesa (1834-1903) challenged established notions regarding women's position in a Muslim society in colonial Bengal. Her RupJalal was the first literary text written by a Bengali Muslim woman. The translated text is placed in the historical context of colonialism and the nationalist movement of colonial Bengal. An analysis of the text is also included in order to invite readers to explore the woman question in context of Islam and/in imperial society. With the translated text, along with a critical overview and textual analysis, this book traces in Faizunnesa's life and works the emergence of a self-conscious female voice by addressing the issues of social, political, and economic marginality of women in an Islamic, nationalist, and imperialist culture of colonial Bengal."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook History Collection EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047442264 9047442261 1282399209 9781282399204 9786612399206 6612399201 |
| ISSN: | 1570-7628 ; |
