{"product_id":"resistance-and-its-discontents-in-south-asian-womens-fiction-9781526150615","title":"Resistance and its Discontents in South Asian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Mirza’s theorization of resistance is a substantive addition to  feminist and postcolonial scholarship, and her rich readings of  different literary texts make a valuable contribution to feminist  literary studies.’            \u003cbr\u003eNalini Iyer, Professor of English, Seattle University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eResistance and its discontents in South Asian women’s fiction\u003c\/i\u003e  is a rigorous and impassioned exploration of the concept of resistance  in postcolonial literature. It is an essential contribution to the field  of postcolonial studies and a compelling excavation of resistance in  South Asian women’s writing.'\u003cbr\u003eClaire Chambers, Professor of Global Literature, University of York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mirza’s  comprehensive take on what counts as “resistance” in Anglophone fiction  by women writers from South Asia and its diaspora—not just its heroic  manifestations but also its limits, its contradictions, its marginality  and even its absence in the reality of women’s lives—makes this a  provocative theoretical inquiry into female agency.\u003ci\u003e Resistance and its Discontents in South Asian Women’s Fiction \u003c\/i\u003emakes a major contribution to postcolonial criticism as well as feminist theory.'   \u003cbr\u003eRajeswari Sunder Rajan, Formerly Global Distinguished Professor, New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Maryam Mirza’s new book is sure to become a major work of reference in the field of South Asian literary studies and of literature by (and on) women. Its breadth, depth, and level of detail are astonishing, and it offers a thoroughly new reboot of the genre of “resistance literature”, by enlarging and complexifying the semantic reach of the term “resistance” beyond its current remit within contemporary fictional narratives.’ \u003cbr\u003eNeelam Srivastava, Professor of Postcolonial and World Literature, Newcastle University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is an examination of how English-language fiction by women writers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka has grappled with the idea and practice of resistance. A valuable, original and timely contribution to the field of South Asian literary and cultural studies, this book extends and complicates existing debates about the meanings of resistance. It brings to the fore not only the emancipatory potential of resistance, but also the contradictions that it can encompass as well as the anxieties that it can generate, particularly for women. Focusing on novels and short fiction, the book explores fiction by Arundhati Roy, Kamila Shamsie, Tahmima Anam, Jhumpa Lahiri, Manju Kapur and Ru Freeman, amongst others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Maryam Mirza offers a provocative and nuanced discussion of resistance in postcolonial South Asian women’s fiction and challenges the assumption that all such fiction is inherently resistant. She examines a range of South Asian women writers (resident and diasporic) including Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kamila Shamsie, Meena Kandasamy among others to explore the complexities of resistance. She argues that many of these writers go beyond challenging patriarchal and familial oppression in their writing and question socio-economic structures that are intertwined with gendered oppression. Mirza’s theorization of resistance is a substantive addition to feminist and postcolonial scholarship, and her rich readings of different literary texts make a valuable contribution to feminist literary studies.'\u003cbr\u003eNalini Iyer, Professor of English, Seattle University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003e'Resistance and its Discontents in South Asian Women’s Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e is a rigorous and impassioned exploration of the concept of resistance in postcolonial literary studies. Challenging prevailing pieties and misgivings about the relevance of resistance, this monograph engages with the complexities and contradictions inherent in the term. By examining South Asian women’s fiction, the book explores wider emancipatory politics around gender, class, caste, sexuality, and identity. Mirza also uncovers the slippery nature of resistance, highlighting the concept’s centrality to questions of power and oppression. This book is an essential contribution to the field of postcolonial studies and a compelling excavation of resistance in South Asian women’s writing.'\u003cbr\u003eClaire Chambers, Professor of Global Literature, University of York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Maryam Mirza’s exploration of \u003ci\u003eresistance\u003c\/i\u003e in Anglophone fiction by contemporary women writers from South Asia and its diaspora, is both wide-ranging and exploratory. Her thematic analysis and close reading of over a dozen works of fiction—novels but also short stories—yields rich critical insights. At the same time, her comprehensive take on what counts as “resistance” in these narratives—not just its heroic manifestations but also its limits, its contradictions, its marginality and even its absence in the reality of women’s lives—makes this a provocative theoretical inquiry into female agency. \u003ci\u003eResistance and its Discontents in South Asian Women’s Fiction \u003c\/i\u003emakes a major contribution to postcolonial criticism as well as feminist theory.'   \u003cbr\u003eRajeswari Sunder Rajan   Formerly Global Distinguished Professor, New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Maryam Mirza’s new book makes a major contribution to scholarship in postcolonial\/world literature and South Asian literature. It highlights how multifarious the notion of resistance can become in literary narratives, and thus helps to complicate Manichaeistic understandings of resistance as they tend to be conceived of in postcolonial studies. Its breadth, depth, and level of detail are astonishing, and it offers a powerful interpretation of contemporary South Asian women’s fiction through a novel reconception of resistance as a hermeneutical framework to approach postcolonial literature. Mirza draws on an inter-disciplinary and wide-ranging array of critical and theoretical resources in postcolonial theory and political notions of the self, alongside text-specific readings of the fictions under discussion, weaving it all together into a persuasive and gripping critical narrative.’   \u003cbr\u003eNeelam Srivastava, Professor of Postcolonial and World Literature, Newcastle University\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: revisiting resistance (again)\u003cbr\u003e1 Resisting activism: the politics of apathy and disengagement in\u003ci\u003e Difficult Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBroken Verses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Revolutionary love and the romance of resistance: \u003ci\u003eBroken Verses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lowland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 ‘Ordinary’ defiances and the short story\u003cbr\u003e4 Queering resistance: \u003ci\u003eA Married Woman,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBabyji \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Troubled resistance, troubling resistance: \u003ci\u003eHomework\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Namesake\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Disobedient Girl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Writing as resistance? \u003ci\u003eA Golden Age\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Good Muslim \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Gypsy Goddess\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: resisting idealising resistance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138302804311,"sku":"9781526150615","price":72.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526150615.jpg?v=1751918814","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/resistance-and-its-discontents-in-south-asian-womens-fiction-9781526150615","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}