The Mughal Aviary: Womens Writings in Pre-Modern India by Sabiha Huq (English) H

Description: The Mughal Aviary: Womens Writings in Pre-Modern India by Sabiha Huq This volume delves into the literary lives of four Muslim women in pre-modern India. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This volume delves into the literary lives of four Muslim women in pre-modern India. Three of them, Gulbadan Begam (1523-1603), the youngest daughter of Emperor Babur, Jahanara (1614-1681), the eldest daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan, and Zeb-un-Nissa (1638-1702), the eldest daughter of Emperor Aurangzeb, belonged to royalty. Thus, they were inhabitants of the Mughal zenana, an enigmatic liminal space of qualified autonomy and complex equations of gender politics. Amidst such constructs, Gulbadan Begams Humayun-Nama (biography of her half-brother Humayun, reflecting on the lives of Baburs wives and daughters), Jahanaras hagiographies glorifying Mughal monarchy, and Zeb-un-Nissas free-spirited poetry that landed her in Aurangzebs prison, are discursive literary outputs from a position of gendered subalternity. While the subjective selves of these women never much surfaced under extant rigid conventions, their indomitable understanding of home-world antinomies determinedly emerge from their works. This monograph explores the political imagination of these Mughal women that was constructed through statist interactions of their royal fathers and brothers, and how such knowledge percolated through the relatively cloistered communal life of the zenana. The fourth woman, Habba Khatoon (1554-1609), famously known as the Nightingale of Kashmir, offers an interesting counterpoint to her royal peers. As a common woman who married into royalty (her husband Yusuf Shah Chak was the ruler of Kashmir in 1579-1586), her happiness was short-lived with her husband being treacherously exiled by Emperor Akbar. Khatoons verse, which voices the pangs of separation, was that of an ascetic who allegedly roamed the valley, and is famed to have introduced the lol (lyric) into Kashmiri poetry. Across genres and social positions of all these writers, this volume intends to cast hitherto unfocused light on the emergent literary sensibilities shown by Muslim women in pre-modern India. Author Biography Sabiha Huq, PhD, is Professor of English at Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh. Her fields of specialization are modern drama, translation and Henrik Ibsen; and womens subject position in literature is her primary interest. Dr. Huq takes great interest in womens literature, and has published on several South Asian women writers. She also translates and writes stories, poems and features in books, newspapers and magazines. Dr. Huq is currently a member of the International Ibsen Committee. Details ISBN1622738527 Author Sabiha Huq Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1622738527 ISBN-13 9781622738526 Format Hardcover Imprint Vernon Press Pages 204 Publisher Vernon Press Series Series in Literary Studies Publication Date 2022-03-10 Place of Publication Delaware Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2022-03-10 NZ Release Date 2022-03-10 US Release Date 2022-03-10 UK Release Date 2022-03-10 DEWEY 891/.550992870954 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134856324;

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