The Essential Rokeya: selected works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)

The Essential Rokeya: selected works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)

In The Essential Rokeya, Mohammad A. Quayum brings together, for the first time, some of the best work by one of South Asia’s earliest and most heroic feminist writers and activists, who was also a leading figure of the Bengal Renaissance in the nineteenth and early twentieth century – Rokeya Sakhaw...

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Other Authors: Quayum, Mohammad Abdul
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Language:English
Published: Brill 2013
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PE English
PI Oriental languages and literatures
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spelling iium-353912014-10-30T04:47:53Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/35391/ The Essential Rokeya: selected works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures In The Essential Rokeya, Mohammad A. Quayum brings together, for the first time, some of the best work by one of South Asia’s earliest and most heroic feminist writers and activists, who was also a leading figure of the Bengal Renaissance in the nineteenth and early twentieth century – Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). This collection includes Rokeya’s most popular story, Sultana’s Dream, and some essays and letters written originally in English, as well as Quayum’s own translation of several of her fiction and non-fiction works written originally in Bengali. This will enable readers outside Bangladesh and West Bengal to appraise and appreciate Rokeya’s fundamental role in the feminist awakening in South Asia, especially among the Bengali Muslims of her time. Brill Quayum, Mohammad Abdul 2013-08 Book PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/35391/1/The_Essential_Rokeya._pdf-1.pdf Quayum, Mohammad Abdul, ed. (2013) The Essential Rokeya: selected works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). Women and Gender; The Middle East and the Islamic World (13). Brill, Boston, Leiden. ISBN 9789004255852 http://www.brill.com/essential-rokeya
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The Essential Rokeya: selected works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)
description In The Essential Rokeya, Mohammad A. Quayum brings together, for the first time, some of the best work by one of South Asia’s earliest and most heroic feminist writers and activists, who was also a leading figure of the Bengal Renaissance in the nineteenth and early twentieth century – Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). This collection includes Rokeya’s most popular story, Sultana’s Dream, and some essays and letters written originally in English, as well as Quayum’s own translation of several of her fiction and non-fiction works written originally in Bengali. This will enable readers outside Bangladesh and West Bengal to appraise and appreciate Rokeya’s fundamental role in the feminist awakening in South Asia, especially among the Bengali Muslims of her time.
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title The Essential Rokeya: selected works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)
title_short The Essential Rokeya: selected works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)
title_full The Essential Rokeya: selected works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)
title_fullStr The Essential Rokeya: selected works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)
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