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Haram in the harem [electronic resource] : domestic narratives in India and Algeria / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar.

By: Rajakumar, Mohanalakshmi.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.): v. 8.Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, c2009Description: viii, 118 p.Subject(s): Cu�g�ht�a��i, �I�smat, 1915-1991 -- Criticism and interpretation | �K�had�ijah Mast�ur, 1927-1982 -- Criticism and interpretation | Djebar, Assia, 1936- -- Criticism and interpretation | Muslim women in literature | Patriarchy in literature | Families in literature | Muslim women -- India -- Social conditions | Muslim women -- Pakistan -- Social conditions | Muslim women -- Algeria -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 809/.9338297082 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Muslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife -- The Algerian resistance : non-combat women within the family fold -- The partition of India : women's bodies embody men's honor -- Multiple narratives in short fiction -- When real life and fiction converge -- Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist" -- The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' " --the complete housewife" -- Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt" -- Conclusion -- "Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's Women of Algiers in their apartments -- Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter -- Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow -- Conclusion -- Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences -- Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure -- Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure" -- Conclusion -- Thematic intersections.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Muslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife -- The Algerian resistance : non-combat women within the family fold -- The partition of India : women's bodies embody men's honor -- Multiple narratives in short fiction -- When real life and fiction converge -- Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist" -- The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' " --the complete housewife" -- Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt" -- Conclusion -- "Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's Women of Algiers in their apartments -- Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter -- Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow -- Conclusion -- Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences -- Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure -- Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure" -- Conclusion -- Thematic intersections.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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