Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction
Author:   Mryam Mirza
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199466740


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 September 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Mryam Mirza
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9780199466740


ISBN 10:   0199466742
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Tabish Khair; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Writing Class, Writing Intimacy; 1: Ayahs and Playmates in Ice-Candy-Man, The Hope Chest, and The End of Innocence; 2: The (Im)possibility of Female Solidarity Beyond Class? The Binding Vine and The Space Between Us; 3: Loving Class Others in The God of Small Things and Salt and Saffron; 4: Domestic/Employee Seduction in The Hottest Day of the Year, The Space Between Us, and The God of Small Things; 5: National or Class Allegories? Romance in Rich Like Us and The Inheritance of Loss; 6: Speaking Back: The Politics of Cross-Class Dialogue; Conclusion: Intimacy Across ClassModes of Elitist Narration?; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

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Maryam Mirza's extensive study is an illuminating read not only for academics, but also for South Asian writers looking to write well about the interactions of Indian and Pakistani characters created to represent the multilayered society that we live in. * Wasafiri *


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Maryam Mirza is a BeIPD-COFUND postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Liége, Belgium. In JuneJuly 2015, she held a Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust Visiting Fellowship at Newcastle University, UK. Maryam has taught at several universities and colleges in Pakistan, including Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore.

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