This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on women poets, writers and artists and their explorations on marginalisation, violence and protest.
The book traces the origins, varied historiographies and socio-political consequences of women’s protests and feminist discourses. Bringing together narratives of the Landais from Afghanistan, voices from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Miya women poets writing from Assam, and stories of Dalit and queer women across the region, it analyses the diverse modes of women’s protests and their ethical and humanitarian cartographies. The volume highlights the reconfiguration of female voices of protest in contemporary literature and popular culture in South Asia and the formation of closely-knit female communities of solidarity, cooperation and collective political action.
The book will be of interest to students and researchers of gender studies, literature, cultural studies, sociology, minority and indigenous studies, and South Asian studies.
"List of contributors Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction by Nabanita Sengupta and Samrita Sengupta Sinha Part I: Literary Voices of Protest Poetry and Dissent: Afghan Women’s Poetry Nishi Pulugurtha Mapping Shrines of Memory – Aspiration, Repression and Articulation in Contemporary Kashmiri Poetry Huzaifa Pandit Piro Prenam – A Voice of Dissent in Kafi Tradition Ayesha Ramzan Protest in the Poems of Unish: A Study of Women’s Poetry from Barak Valley Debashree Chakraborty and Panna Paul Homes and Warzones in Sri Lanka: Reading Resistance and Protest in Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of aThousand Mirrors Aditi Upmanyu ""Fairy Tales"" and ""Crystal Palaces"": Negotiating with the Hegemonic images of Gender and Identity in Amruta Patil’s ‘Kari’ Nishtha Dev Mokashi - Problematising the Political Identity of a Bodo Woman Protestor as Depicted in Mamoni Raisom Goswami’s The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar (2009) Snigdha Deka and Rohini Punekar Religious Fanaticism and the Advent of Protest Narrative: A Study of Asia Bibi’s Blasphemy Uma Pal Negotiating Peace and Protest through Conflictual Terrains: A thematic study of Temsula Ao’s short stories Rashmi Lee George Aesthetics of Protest: A Study of Select Dalit Women’s Life-Writings in English Roopa Philip Centering the Woman Victim’s Conscience in Southern Sri Lanka: Three Recent Interventions as Case Studies Vihanga Perera Part II: Socio-Cultural and Performative spaces of protest Malady of the Skin and the Construction of Disabled Female Bodies: A Reading through Indian Narratives Elwin Susan John Memorialising Gender Violence in south Asia through Contemporary Digital Art Isha Yadav Phallic Vigilantes and OTT Platforms: Urban Female Angst in South Asian Cinema Umar Nizaruddeen The Other Side of Nostalgia: Dalit Women’s Narratives From the Diaspora Dhrupadi Chattopadhayay Part III: Lived experiences as protest Rape, Restriction and Protest: A Critical Analysis of the Bangladeshi Female Student Movement. Shafinur Nahar and Taniah Mahmuda Tinni The Quest for Dignity, Identity & Equality through Protest Poetry: A case of Miya Women Poets in Assam, India Wahida Parveez Samrita Sengupta Sinha in conversation with Dr Anita Sharma Nabanita Sengupta in conversation with Ms Renju Renjimar Index"
Nabanita Sengupta is a translator, creative writer and academician. She teaches in an undergraduate college in Kolkata. Her recent published works include, Understanding Women's Experiences of Displacement, Chambal Revisited and A Bengali Lady in England. Samrita Sinha is Assistant Professor of English, Sophia College (Autonomous). Her Doctoral thesis is in the domain of Anglophone Women’s literature from the Northeastern Borderlands of India. She is the recipient of Charles Wallace Doctoral Grant for the year 2022-23.
