Writing from the margins: multiple subalternity of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

• Main Author: Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Department of English Language and Literature, KIRKHS, International Islamic University Malaysia 2018
• Subjects: HQ1101 Women. Feminism; PE English; PN0441 Literary History
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/67296/8/67296%20Writing%20from%20the%20margins.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/67296/7/67296%20Writing%20from%20the%20margins%20WOS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/67296/; http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain came from and wrote for a colonised, marginalised society. Hence, the question of the silenced subaltern voice and agency, and of subordinate experiences of non-Western writers is pertinent to the discussion of her work. She is a subaltern not only because of gender and colon...