Rokeya from a comparative literary perspective

• Main Author: Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: The New Age, Dhaka 2018
• Subjects: BP190.5 Islamization of Knowledge; BP88 Individual authors, A-Z; PE English; PK Indo-Iranian; PN0080 Criticism; PR English literature
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/61379/1/Rokeya%20from%20a%20comparative%20literary%20perspective.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/61379/; http://epaper.newagebd.net/08-01-2018/9

IN MY doctoral study titled Introducing Rokeya’s Plural Feminism (University of Portsmouth, 2007), I sought to unearth the rich treasure of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s (1880–1932) feminist writing and to compare it with that of two established English feminist writers, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) and Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), and two postcolonial ones Attia Hosain (1913-98) and Monica Ali (1967). My comparative study aimed at introducing Rokeya and her work to a wide-ranging readership and at revealing the relevance of her overarching feminist ideas to international feminisms beyond the borders of the South Asian subcontinent.