Published 2009
Table of Contents:
“…Muslim
women in colonial
India : the importance of the proper housewife -- The Algerian resistance : non-combat
women within the family fold -- The partition of
India :
women's bodies embody men's honor -- Multiple narratives in short fiction -- When real life and fiction converge -- Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : "I am a realist" -- The sister-in-law and her husband's family : ' " --the complete housewife" -- Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of "The quilt" -- Conclusion -- "Severed sound" : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbar's
Women of Algiers in their apartments -- Returning home in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter -- Family politics in post-revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow -- Conclusion -- Between
women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences -- Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure -- Caught between the communal and the familial : "his only sister, his treasure" -- Conclusion -- Thematic intersections.…”
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