A Critical Study of the Novels: of Rokeya Shakwat Hossain Zeenuth Futehally Iqbalunnisa Hussain Tara Ali Baig Attia Hosain - Softcover

Khan, Dr. Roshan Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482867575 ISBN 13: 9781482867572

Publisher: PartridgeIndia, 2016

Synopsis

This is a comparative study of the unaccredited yet formidable five major Indian Muslim women novelists: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossian, Zeenuth Futehally, Iqbalunnisa Hussain, Tara Ali Baig, and Attia Hossian. The book explores their work with regard to themes like patriarchy, feminism, religiosity, nationality, secularity, and above all, liberty. Their contribution to the growth of novel writing in English cannot go ignored as they created a momentum in writing novel using English language as a medium of combined feminist statements with a message to liberate Muslim women from religious conventions, social taboos, and a male-dominated world. The study of their novels also makes us aware of the grit and determination and the sheer hunger of these writers to make their mark, to speak out unequivocally against prejudice, basically to enlighten us how their personalities were shaped and eventually established. Their sensitivities as women give an edge to the entire narrative as does their unprecedented and undaunted dare to the oppressors. In the great tradition of modern and postmodern fiction, our writers use their pen to stand up against inequality of any kind and to undo the stereotypes, leading themselves by example.

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About the Author

Dr. Roshan Benjamin Khan is working as a Professor in English at Shree Atal Bihari Vajpayee Arts and Commerce College Indore (M.P) India. She is currently Chairperson, Board of Studies, English, D.A.V.V. Indore (M.P) India. Besides teaching she is currently working on two projects simultaneously, on the Gospel of St John and a novel. To her credit she has co–authored two books and a number of research papers. Her first non-fiction work A Critical Study of the Novels of –Rokeya Hossain, Zeenuth Futehally, Iqbalunnisa Hussain, Tara Ali Baig and Attia Hosian is an attempt to fill the vacuum left by many anthologies, history of Indian Writing in English and other related material available to reflect on the novels written by pioneer Muslim women writers in English in India.

Edition details

• Publisher: PartridgeIndia
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1482867575
• ISBN 13: 9781482867572
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218