Female Narratives of Protest

List of contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction by Nabanita Sengupta and Samrita Sengupta Sinha

Part I: Literary Voices of Protest






Poetry and Dissent: Afghan Women's Poetry
Nishi Pulugurtha




Mapping Shrines of Memory - Aspiration, Repression and Articulation in Contemporary Kashmiri Poetry
Huzaifa Pandit




Piro Prenam - A Voice of Dissent in Kafi Tradition
Ayesha Ramzan




Protest in the Poems of Unish: A Study of Women's Poetry from Barak Valley
Debashree Chakraborty and Panna Paul




Homes and Warzones in Sri Lanka: Reading Resistance and Protest in Nayomi Munaweera's Island of aThousand Mirrors
Aditi Upmanyu




"Fairy Tales" and "Crystal Palaces": Negotiating with the Hegemonic images of Gender and Identity in Amruta Patil's 'Kari'
Nishtha Dev




Mokashi - Problematising the Political Identity of a Bodo Woman Protestor as Depicted in Mamoni Raisom Goswami's The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar (2009)
Snigdha Deka and Rohini Punekar




Religious Fanaticism and the Advent of Protest Narrative: A Study of Asia Bibi's Blasphemy
Uma Pal




Negotiating Peace and Protest through Conflictual Terrains: A thematic study of Temsula Ao's short stories
Rashmi Lee George




Aesthetics of Protest: A Study of Select Dalit Women's Life-Writings in English
Roopa Philip




Centering the Woman Victim's Conscience in Southern Sri Lanka: Three Recent Interventions as Case Studies
Vihanga Perera

Part II: Socio-Cultural and Performative spaces of protest




Malady of the Skin and the Construction of Disabled Female Bodies: A Reading through Indian Narratives
Elwin Susan John




Memorialising Gender Violence in south Asia through Contemporary Digital Art
Isha Yadav




Phallic Vigilantes and OTT Platforms: Urban Female Angst in South Asian Cinema
Umar Nizaruddeen




The Other Side of Nostalgia: Dalit Women's Narratives From the Diaspora
Dhrupadi Chattopadhayay

Part III: Lived experiences as protest




Rape, Restriction and Protest: A Critical Analysis of the Bangladeshi Female Student Movement.
Shafinur Nahar and Taniah Mahmuda Tinni




The Quest for Dignity, Identity & Equality through Protest Poetry: A case of Miya Women Poets in Assam, India
Wahida Parveez




Samrita Sengupta Sinha in conversation with Dr Anita Sharma



Nabanita Sengupta in conversation with Ms Renju Renjimar

Index