The burden of the female body: an Islamic feminist reading of Qaisra Shahraz’s Typhoon
A sequel to The Holy Woman(2001), Typhoon(2003) is Qaisra Shahraz’s second novel. This paper analyses how Shahraz continues problematizing female sexuality and the politics attached to it, especially in rural Pakistan. It dilates upon the discourse that surrounds the female body and sexuality...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2021
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16935/1/IJIT-Vol-19-June-2021_9_79-88.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16935/ http://www.ukm.my/ijit/volume-19-june-2021/ |
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| Summary: | A sequel to The Holy Woman(2001), Typhoon(2003) is Qaisra Shahraz’s second novel.
This paper analyses how Shahraz continues problematizing female sexuality and the
politics attached to it, especially in rural Pakistan. It dilates upon the discourse that
surrounds the female body and sexuality in Pakistan society within and outside the
framework of marriage. What is at stake is that women’s own sexuality becomes a
burden for them. On the contrary, men take pride in their masculinity which gives
authenticity to their voice. The cultural colonization of women’s lives (as it appears in
Shahraz’s novel) is addressed under the theoretical rationale of Islamic feminism. This
is done with the aim to locate the space granted to women in Islam, especiallywhen it
comes to the female body and its sexuality. |
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