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Visible Histories, Disappearing Women – Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal

Autor Mahua Sarkar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2008
In this important contribution to South Asian historiography, Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women came to represented as invisible, backward, and victimized in the written history of late colonial Bengal. While feminist scholars of colonial India have recently begun recuperating the voices of marginalized women, Sarkar focuses her attention on how and why Bengali Muslim women came to be marginalized in the first place. Ultimately, she argues that their near-invisibility, except as victims, in normative histories of India was central to the consolidation of national identity in the colonial period and beyond. She also contends that the politics of liberal feminism and the nation-centeredness of history as a discipline have helped to produce Muslim women as the oppressed, mute “other” of the modern Indian subject. Sarkar surveys recent feminist and postcolonial scholarship to assess when and where Muslim women enter, or are written into, the history of colonial Bengal. Drawing on extensive archival research, she follows Muslim women as they appear and disappear in colonial, Hindu nationalist, and liberal Muslim writing about late colonial Bengal. She interviewed Muslim women who lived in Calcutta or Dhaka in the first half of the twentieth century, and their oral accounts provide a rich source of information about the social fabric of urban Bengal during the final years of colonial rule. Sarkar concludes with an exploration of the complex links between past constructions of Bengali Muslim women and the ways that they are represented in academic and popular discourses in India today. She reflects too on the relation between the representational violence of the past and the very real corporeal violence against Muslim women in contemporary India.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822342342
ISBN-10: 0822342340
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 156 x 228 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Writing Difference 1
1. The Colonial Cast: The Merchant, the Soldier, the "Writer" (Clerk), Their Lovers, and the Trouble with "Native Women's" Histories 27
2. The Politics of (In)visibility: Muslim Women in (Hindu) Nationalist Discourse 48
3. Negotiating Modernity: The Social Production of Muslim-ness in Late Colonial Bengal 78
4. Difference in Memory 133
Conclusion: Connections 196
Notes 205
Bibliography 287
Index 331

Recenzii

“Visible Histories, Disappearing Women is an analytically insightful, genuinely original work that breaks new ground in South Asian history, gender, and women’s studies, postcolonial theory, and historical sociology. One of its strengths is Mahua Sarkar’s insistence that history as a discipline and feminism as a politics have disappeared the Muslim woman as a subject.” Antoinette Burton, editor of Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History“Mahua Sarkar’s insightful study of Bengali Muslim women’s writings and oral testimonies is not a simple project of reclaiming the history of marginalized subjects. The point of her thoughtful and penetrating analysis is to illuminate the structures of representation—in both official histories and popular memories—that produce the specific ways in which the figure of the Muslim woman becomes visible. Sarkar exposes the nation-centered focus and the liberal-feminist politics that have shaped the specific marginalization of Muslim women in accounts of late colonial Bengal. Hers is ultimately a passionate and nuanced call for a re-orientation of existing scholarship with far-reaching implications for the contours both of historiography and of contemporary politics.”—Mrinalini Sinha, author of Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire

Notă biografică

Mahua Sarkar is Associate Professor of Sociology and a faculty member of the Women's Studies and Asian and Asian-American Studies programs at Binghamton University.

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""Visible Histories, Disappearing Women" is an analytically insightful, genuinely original work that breaks new ground in South Asian history, gender and women's studies, postcolonial theory, and historical sociology. One of its strengths is Mahua Sarkar's insistence that history as a discipline and feminism as a politics have disappeared the Muslim woman as a subject."--Antoinette Burton, editor of "Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History"

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Representations of Muslim women in colonial India