MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009018153
003 DLC
005 20110215133211.0
008 090501s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009018153
020 $a9781433107122 (clothbound : alk. paper)
020 $a1433107120 (clothbound : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn320525149
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050 00 $aPK2173.5.W65$bR35 2009
082 00 $a809/.9338297082$222
100 1 $aRajakumar, Mohanalakshmi.
245 10 $aHaram in the harem :$bdomestic narratives in India and Algeria /$cMohanalakshmi Rajakumar.
260 $aNew York :$bPeter Lang,$cc2009.
300 $aviii, 118 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aPostcolonial studies,$x1942-6100 ;$vv. 8
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMuslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife -- The Algerian resistance : non-combat women within the family fold -- The partition of India : women's bodies embody men's honor -- Multiple narratives in short fiction -- When real life and fiction converge -- Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist" -- The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' " --the complete housewife" -- Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt" -- Conclusion -- "Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's Women of Algiers in their apartments -- Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter -- Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow -- Conclusion -- Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences -- Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure -- Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure" -- Conclusion -- Thematic intersections.
650 0 $aMuslim women in literature.
650 0 $aPatriarchy in literature.
650 0 $aFamilies in literature.
600 10 $aCug̲h̲tāʼī, ʻIṣmat,$d1915-1991$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 00 $aK̲h̲adījah Mastūr,$d1927-1982$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aDjebar, Assia,$d1936-$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aMuslim women$zIndia$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aMuslim women$zPakistan$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aMuslim women$zAlgeria$xSocial conditions.
830 0 $aPostcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) ;$vv. 8.