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Nov 28, 2021 · How does the word ‘feminism’ translate into the Urdu language? Will the book be able to explain feminist ideology to the reader and how the two concepts and ideas differ?
May 12, 2024 · The author undertakes a comprehensive examination of the various conceptions and representations of gender, sexuality and feminism in Urdu literature during these eras across five chapters, as...
As the first study of its kind, this book offers a new understanding of progressive women’s poetry in Urdu and the legacy of postcolonial politics. It underlines Urdu’s linguistic hybridities, the context of the zenana, reform and rekhti to illustrate how the modernising impulse under colonial rule impacted women as subjects in textual form.
Mar 3, 2020 · What is revealed in this collection is true of Urdu feminist writing in general: that it has as many different faces, tones, concerns, and aesthetics as there are ways women have learned to hold one another up. A dispiriting narrowness has defined canons of Urdu feminist writing from previous decades.
This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic.
Aug 22, 2019 · Urdu, as Smriti herself calls, is a “dying language”. Besides the annual visits to Rekhta fests, I too have massively failed to engage with Urdu’s world of expressions—be it sadness, happiness, love or resistance—and its varied forms like poetry, ghazals, shayari or stories.
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This inspired Urdu writers to discuss women’s rights, education, and freedom from the veil. These writers rejected men and women’s prescribed gender roles. Among these, two important names are Sajjad Haider Yaldram and Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai.
