Intimate class acts [electronic resource] : friendship and desire in Indian and Pakistani women's fiction / Maryam Mirza.
2016
PR9492.6.W6 M57 2016eb
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Title
Intimate class acts [electronic resource] : friendship and desire in Indian and Pakistani women's fiction / Maryam Mirza.
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Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199087228 (electronic book)
Published
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxx, 191 pages)
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199466740 doi
Call Number
PR9492.6.W6 M57 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823.00992870954
Summary
In this scholarly work, Maryam Mirza examines ten novels in English by women writers from the Indian subcontinent. She explores the role of power and desire, and of emotional and physical intimacy in cross-class relations. Striking similarities in how gendered and classed identities are lived in India and Pakistan are revealed in this text.
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In this scholarly work, Maryam Mirza examines ten novels in English by women writers from the Indian subcontinent. She explores the role of power and desire, and of emotional and physical intimacy in cross-class relations. Striking similarities in how gendered and classed identities are lived in India and Pakistan are revealed in this text.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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