Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 15:57:09 -0800
From: azfar-AT-wsu.edu (Azfar Hussain)
Subject: Re: Deepa's Search


Deepa,

Ooops--I simply forgot to ask you something in my earlier post: Are you
considering Ismat Chugtai's novel _The Crooked Line_ translated by Tahira
Naqvi (Portsmouth: N.H. Heinemann, 1995)? Chugtai's short stories are
certainly interesting and powerful, but this particular novel I think is
remarkable for its broad discursive horizon that certainly accommodates
"intimate accounts" of the kind you're looking for, on the one hand, and on
the other, that relates such accounts (through the character Shamman) to
the coloniality/postcoloniality of the female experiences intensely lived
in the socio-historical spaces.

Are you interested in women's writing in Urdu, the tradition of which, of
course, goes back to the 1800s?  Well, one can even think of Gulbadan Begam
in the sixteenth century!

Best,

Azfar Hussain

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