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The woman in the muslin mask :

1435661958

1849644918

6611725326

9781435661950

9781849644914

9786611725327

074532004X

0745320058

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9780745320052

9781281725325

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The woman in the muslin mask :

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veiling and identity in postcolonial literature /

Daphne Grace.

Sterling, Va. :

Pluto Press,

2004.

1 online resource (259 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.

1. Background to the veil: history, theory and culture -- 2. Imagining veiled woman -- 3. Revealing and re-veiling: Egypt -- 4. Piety and patriarchy: the Arabian Peninsular and the Eastern Mediterranean -- 5. Violence, liberation and resistance: North Africa -- 6. Subversion, seduction and shame: India -- 7. Conclusion: liberating the veil.

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Western feminists have in the past singled out the veiling of women as a potent symbol of women's oppression under Islam. Daphne Grace explores the far more complex and contested role of veiling over the last 120 years. Looking at the ways in which the veil is used in literature, and its representations in writing from the East and the West, she shows how veiling has come to stand for both oppression and resistance. Grace asks why, at the start of the new millennium, veiling seems more popular than ever - and explores what veiling means for the women themselves. Chapters are arranged geographically and chronologically, beginning with the 'imperial gaze' of Victorian England, moving to the Arab Islamic world of the Middle East and the Maghreb and finally to India, in the process exploring the nationalist, religious, political and cultural meanings of the veil in its many manifestations, then and now.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

JSTOR

22573/ctt184pvd6

Woman in the muslin mask.

9780745320052

Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism.

Muslim women in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Veils in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.

Literature, Modern.

Muslim women in literature.

Muslimin

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Democracy.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Postkoloniale Literatur

Schleier

TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Literary.

Veils in literature.

Englisch.

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LIT-- 000000

POL007000

TRV-- 026090

Grace, Daphne,1954-

20201207032258.0

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