Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 14:56:44 -0800 From: azfar-AT-wsu.edu (Azfar Hussain) Subject: Re: Deepa's Search Deepa, I'm not sure if you'll be interested in poetry for the kind of "intimate accounts" you're looking for. If you think that poetry would serve your purpose, you may take a look at Imtiaz Dharker, an Indian poet born in Pakistan. In fact, she has a number of marvellous poems on "Purdah." Some of them are even directly titled "Purdah," where she provides, among other things, a kind of intimate account (poetry can sometimes be really intimate and confessional) of the effect of "purdah" on women's life, apart from exploring the symbolic and metaphorical implications of the veiled word with which she struggles continuously. Dharker is not really much known as a poet here (in the sense that a Jayanta Mahapatra or a Kamala Das is), but I feel she's a voice worth listening to. Best, On Fri, 2 Aug 1996 Deepa Reddy wrote: >I have been looking recently for *good* accounts of Muslim life in India, >fictional or ethnographic. There is much that covers the basic ground - >purdah, law, history etc etc - but I guess I'm looking for much more >intimate accounts. For example, the fiction of Ismat Chugtai -- does >anyone know of anthologies where she's published? Any other well known/ >lesser known Muslim women writers worth considering? >Any and all suggestions would be very useful -- many thanks in advance, Deepa Azfar Hussain ############################## AZFAR HUSSAIN Department of English Washington State University Pullman, Washington 99164-5020 Phones: 509-332-4405 (home) 509-335-1803 (work) E-mail: azfar-AT-wsu.edu ############################## --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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