Author: Mulaika Hijjas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disguise in literature
Languages : ms
Pages : 342
Book Description
"In Victorious Wives, Mulaika Hijjas uses tools drawn from literary criticism and gender studies to look at a previously neglected corpus of Malay literature in a new light. The syair of the Riau Archipelago that are the basis of this book, six nineteenth-century Malay narrative poems, are a unique exception in that they allow access to women's imaginative worlds, and they provide a significant historical backdrop to anthropological accounts of gender in the Malay world in modern times."--P. [4] of cover.
Victorious Wives
Author: Mulaika Hijjas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disguise in literature
Languages : ms
Pages : 342
Book Description
"In Victorious Wives, Mulaika Hijjas uses tools drawn from literary criticism and gender studies to look at a previously neglected corpus of Malay literature in a new light. The syair of the Riau Archipelago that are the basis of this book, six nineteenth-century Malay narrative poems, are a unique exception in that they allow access to women's imaginative worlds, and they provide a significant historical backdrop to anthropological accounts of gender in the Malay world in modern times."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disguise in literature
Languages : ms
Pages : 342
Book Description
"In Victorious Wives, Mulaika Hijjas uses tools drawn from literary criticism and gender studies to look at a previously neglected corpus of Malay literature in a new light. The syair of the Riau Archipelago that are the basis of this book, six nineteenth-century Malay narrative poems, are a unique exception in that they allow access to women's imaginative worlds, and they provide a significant historical backdrop to anthropological accounts of gender in the Malay world in modern times."--P. [4] of cover.
Healing a Broken Marriage
Author: Deborah Ross
Publisher: Charisma Media
ISBN: 1616389087
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Through her own personal struggles author Deborah Ross shares with readers a message of hope and emotionally identifies with the suffering of a broken marriage.
Publisher: Charisma Media
ISBN: 1616389087
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Through her own personal struggles author Deborah Ross shares with readers a message of hope and emotionally identifies with the suffering of a broken marriage.
The Upstairs Wife
Author: Rafia Zakaria
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807080462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women An Indies Introduce Debut Authors Selection For a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the country’s former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had been assassinated at a political rally just outside Islamabad. Back in Karachi—Bhutto’s birthplace and Pakistan’s other great metropolis—Rafia Zakaria’s family was suffering through a crisis of its own: her Uncle Sohail, the man who had brought shame upon the family, was near death. In that moment these twin catastrophes—one political and public, the other secret and intensely personal—briefly converged. Zakaria uses that moment to begin her intimate exploration of the country of her birth. Her Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, escaping the precarious state in which the Muslim population in India found itself following the Partition. For them, Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time, Zakaria’s family prospered and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistan’s military dictators began an Islamization campaign designed to legitimate their rule—a campaign that particularly affected women’s freedom and safety. The political became personal when her aunt Amina’s husband, Sohail, did the unthinkable and took a second wife, a humiliating and painful betrayal of kin and custom that shook the foundation of Zakaria’s family but was permitted under the country’s new laws. The young Rafia grows up in the shadow of Amina’s shame and fury, while the world outside her home turns ever more chaotic and violent as the opportunities available to post-Partition immigrants are dramatically curtailed and terrorism sows its seeds in Karachi. Telling the parallel stories of Amina’s polygamous marriage and Pakistan’s hopes and betrayals, The Upstairs Wife is an intimate exploration of the disjunction between exalted dreams and complicated realities.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807080462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women An Indies Introduce Debut Authors Selection For a brief moment on December 27, 2007, life came to a standstill in Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto, the country’s former prime minister and the first woman ever to lead a Muslim country, had been assassinated at a political rally just outside Islamabad. Back in Karachi—Bhutto’s birthplace and Pakistan’s other great metropolis—Rafia Zakaria’s family was suffering through a crisis of its own: her Uncle Sohail, the man who had brought shame upon the family, was near death. In that moment these twin catastrophes—one political and public, the other secret and intensely personal—briefly converged. Zakaria uses that moment to begin her intimate exploration of the country of her birth. Her Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, escaping the precarious state in which the Muslim population in India found itself following the Partition. For them, Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time, Zakaria’s family prospered and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistan’s military dictators began an Islamization campaign designed to legitimate their rule—a campaign that particularly affected women’s freedom and safety. The political became personal when her aunt Amina’s husband, Sohail, did the unthinkable and took a second wife, a humiliating and painful betrayal of kin and custom that shook the foundation of Zakaria’s family but was permitted under the country’s new laws. The young Rafia grows up in the shadow of Amina’s shame and fury, while the world outside her home turns ever more chaotic and violent as the opportunities available to post-Partition immigrants are dramatically curtailed and terrorism sows its seeds in Karachi. Telling the parallel stories of Amina’s polygamous marriage and Pakistan’s hopes and betrayals, The Upstairs Wife is an intimate exploration of the disjunction between exalted dreams and complicated realities.
The Women of Shakespeare
Author: Louis Lewes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Folk Traditions of the Arab World
Author: Hasan M. El-Shamy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253352118
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253352118
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Carry on
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women and the military
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women and the military
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The women of Shakespeare, tr. by H. Zimmern
Author: Louis Lewes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
My Name Is Victorious
Author: Lori Wilhite
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692938126
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
My Name is Victorious will enable us to trade in the names that have haunted us, followed us, and held us back. Names like Not Enough, Unqualified, Damaged, Depressed, and Overwhelmed. Instead, we will grasp new names and embrace the fact that Jesus has declared us victors and overcomers.Together, let¿s declare: ¿My name is Overcomer. My name is Conqueror. My name is Champion. My name is Victorious!¿
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692938126
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
My Name is Victorious will enable us to trade in the names that have haunted us, followed us, and held us back. Names like Not Enough, Unqualified, Damaged, Depressed, and Overwhelmed. Instead, we will grasp new names and embrace the fact that Jesus has declared us victors and overcomers.Together, let¿s declare: ¿My name is Overcomer. My name is Conqueror. My name is Champion. My name is Victorious!¿
History of the Crusades, tr. by W. Robson
Author: Joseph François Michaud
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The History of the Crusades
Author: Joseph Fr. Michaud
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crusades
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description