Lifting the Veil: Introduction by the winner of the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Kamila Shamsie: Penguin Women Writers, cartea 4
Autor Ismat Chughtaien Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2018
Lifting the Veilis a bold and irreverent collection of writing from India's most controversial feminist writer. These stories celebrate life in all its complexities: from a woman who refuses marriage to a man she loves to preserve her freedom, to a Hindu and a Muslim teenager pulled apart by societal pressures, to eye-opening personal accounts of the charges of obscenity the author faced in court for stories found in this book.
Wickedly funny and unflinchingly honest,Lifting the Veilexplores the power of female sexuality while slyly mocking the subtle tyrannies of middle-class life. In 1940s India, an unlikely setting for female rebellion, Ismat Chughtai was a rare and radical storyteller born years ahead of her time.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241346433
ISBN-10: 0241346436
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Penguin Women Writers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241346436
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Penguin Women Writers
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Ismat
Chughtaiwas
Urdu's
most
courageous
and
controversial
woman
writer
of
the
twentieth
century.
She
was
the
first
Indian
Muslim
woman
to
earn
both
a
bachelor
of
arts
and
a
bachelor's
in
education
degree.
She
began
writing
in
secret
due
to
violent
opposition
from
her
family,
and
many
of
her
works
were
banned
for
their
fiercely
feminist
content.
Her
most
celebrated
short
story,The
Quilt,
which
is
included
in
this
publication,
was
brought
to
court
on
charges
of
obscenity
for
its
suggestion
of
homosexuality.
Ismat
Chughtai
refused
the
court's
request
to
apologize
for
the
story,
and
eventually
won
the
case.
She
died
in
1991.
Recenzii
Enlightened,
bold,
iconoclastic,
progressive
and
feminist...Chughtai's
style
makes
reading
a
delight
One of the foremost Urdu writers of the 20th century,Ismat Chughtai is known for her iconoclastic, feminist writings which explored the inner workings of women's lives
Her marvellous skill with language and storytelling has resulted in the creation ofsome of the most powerful women characters in world literature
Gloriously provocative... female sexuality within a patriarchal world is Chughtai's central concern
Chughtai's prose is supple, energetic, argumentative, funny, caustic, and colloquial.But what really distinguishes her from her peers is a bluntness that is often brutal, and a sarcasm that is always biting.This is high-voltage writing, it can be as vituperative as it is incisive, as polemical as it is profound.
Ismat Chughtai's work had a seminal impact on me... [her] rebellious life I carry about with me like a talisman
A writer who was constantly challenging accepted notions of moralityand urging her readers to examine a woman's place in society
One of the foremost Urdu writers of the 20th century,Ismat Chughtai is known for her iconoclastic, feminist writings which explored the inner workings of women's lives
Her marvellous skill with language and storytelling has resulted in the creation ofsome of the most powerful women characters in world literature
Gloriously provocative... female sexuality within a patriarchal world is Chughtai's central concern
Chughtai's prose is supple, energetic, argumentative, funny, caustic, and colloquial.But what really distinguishes her from her peers is a bluntness that is often brutal, and a sarcasm that is always biting.This is high-voltage writing, it can be as vituperative as it is incisive, as polemical as it is profound.
Ismat Chughtai's work had a seminal impact on me... [her] rebellious life I carry about with me like a talisman
A writer who was constantly challenging accepted notions of moralityand urging her readers to examine a woman's place in society