ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|144 pages
Literary Voices of Protest
chapter 2|12 pages
Mapping Shrines of Memory
chapter 5|14 pages
Homes and Warzones
chapter 8|12 pages
Religious Fanaticism and the Advent of Protest Narrative
chapter 9|15 pages
Negotiating Peace and Protest through Conflictual Terrains
chapter 11|12 pages
Centring the Woman Victim's Conscience in Southern Sri Lanka
part II|52 pages
Socio-Cultural and Performative Spaces of Protest
part III|50 pages
Lived Experiences as Protest