Shadow Dynasties : Politics of Memory and Emotions in Pakistani Women's Life-Writing
94: University of Tampere, 2005. Soft Cover. Text in English. 406 pp. Slightly wrinkled covers and first pages. Edge wear.
Shadow Dynasties is a postcolonial, materialist-feminist journey into three Pakistani women's life-writing. It explores memory and emotions related to the building of a separate homeland for South Asian Muslims, and consequent "trying times": the secession of Bangladesh in 1971, several coups d'ètat, political violence and repression and the denial or strategic delay of women's rights. In this context, Begum Ikramullah, Benazir Bhutto and Sara Suleri offer glimpses of past lives as female citizens, dearing ground for new insights to political and autobiographical subjectivity.
The study consists of real and imaginary encounters over decades, across continents and between local and global formations of power. It offers "feminist political scentist's fieldnotes" as a strategy to question the superagency of Western scholars studying other political cultures. The genres of fiction, literary theory and ethnography are freely borrowed to narrate several arrivals to and departures from Pakistan, both the researcher's and of the researched. Very Good. Item #3840
ISBN: 9514462688
Price: $120.00