Narrating Trauma, Constructing Binaries, Affirming Agency: Partition in Muslim Women’s Autobiographical Writing

Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64516-2_6

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“…It is to be noted that the voices of Muslim women are underrepresented in the narratives of Partition (Ali 2009;Lambert-Hurley 2018). The handful of Muslim women writing in English in British India while being the colonial subject had 'class privilege, gender disadvantage and minority status' (Jackson, 2018).…”

Section: Colonial Precaritymentioning

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Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women

Asif¹,

Singh²

2023

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The partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and Muslims, led to a precarious situation in the general atmosphere of the nation. It was even more pronounced in the case of women whose voices were marginalised and underrepresented in the discourse.Building on the theories of precarity and applying the theories of feminist geography, this paper aims to investigate how, through the everyday materiality of heritage spaces and historical memory, Muslim women tried to cope with the precarity of the time. It further aims to highlight the role of tangible and intangible heritage and memory in making sense of place in the select partition writings by Muslim women.

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Section: Colonial Precaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women

Asif¹,

Singh²

2023

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Qadeer¹

2022

The Silence That Speaks

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The thought-provoking introduction traces the origin, development, and expansion of Indian Muslim women’s short fiction, across different genres, from the early twentieth century to contemporary times. It examines writing by authors from different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds to reflect upon the diversity of imagined and lived experiences, to understand the intersectionality of various identities, and to examine voices and agencies of the Muslim women authors. It contests the assumption that Muslim women in India constitute a silent and homogeneous constituency with specific allegiances that derive from Islam. Furthermore, it investigates crucial religious and educational reforms that have impacted the socio-political condition of Muslim women in India, and elaborates upon the relationship between reforms, changing cultural configuration, and its impact on the writings by Muslim women.

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Narrating Trauma, Constructing Binaries, Affirming Agency: Partition in Muslim Women’s Autobiographical Writing

Cited by 2 publications

References 11 publications

Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women

Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women

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