The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) (Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World): 13 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004255850 ISBN 13: 9789004255852

Publisher: Brill, 2013

Synopsis

In The Essential Rokeya, Mohammad A. Quayum brings together, for the first time, some of the best work by one of South Asia’s earliest and most heroic feminist writers and activists, who was also a leading figure of the Bengal Renaissance in the nineteenth and early twentieth century – Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). This collection includes Rokeya’s most popular story, Sultana’s Dream, and some essays and letters written originally in English, as well as Quayum’s own translation of several of her fiction and non-fiction works written originally in Bengali. This will enable readers outside Bangladesh and West Bengal to appraise and appreciate Rokeya’s fundamental role in the feminist awakening in South Asia, especially among the Bengali Muslims of her time.

About this title

About the Author

Mohammad A. Quayum, Ph.D. (Flinders University, 1991), is Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia. He has published monographs, translations and articles on literature, including Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories (Macmillan, 2011) and Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism (Peter Lang, 2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004255850
• ISBN 13: 9789004255852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 232