Rupjalal

Caudhurāṇī, Phaẏajunnesā (1834-1903):
Nawab Faizunnesa's Rupjalal / translated and commented by Fayeza S. Hasanat. - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2009. - xii, 224 S. - (Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; 7)
Einheitssachtitel: Rūpajālāla <engl.>
ISBN 978-90-04-16780-3 / 90-04-16780-3
EUR 77,00 / US$ 126,00

Beschreibung
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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Acknowledgements. xi
Chapter 1: Introduction. 1
Chapter 2: Translation of Rupjalal. 41
   - Prologue. 41
   - Book one. 48
   - Book two. 138
   - Book three. 165
Chapter 3: Rereading the text. 185
Bibliography. 217
Index. 221

Übersetzerin
Fayeza Hasanat, Ph. D. (2005) in English, University of Florida, is a lecturer at the University of Central Florida. She has published academic articles and short fictions in refereed journals. Faculty profile.

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