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100			_aAkhtar, Nazia
245			_aBibi's room : Hyderabadi women and twentieth-century Urdu prose
260			_bOrient Blackswan, _c2022 _aHyderabad :
300			_axiii, 411 p. ; _bill., (b & w), _c22 cm
365			_b1195.00 _c₹ _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn addition to the general neglect of women writers, Urdu literary historiography in both English and Urdu has historically privileged north Indian and Pakistani writers while overlooking the many Urdus south of Bombay and Bhopal. Next to no work exists in English on the Urdu writers of Hyderabad, and only a handful of texts have been translated into English--an astonishing neglect, considering their contribution to the study of gender, political cultures, and regional histories. Bibi's Room studies the lives and work of three women writers from Hyderabad who wrote in Urdu: Zeenath Sajida, Najma Nikhat, and Jeelani Bano. It addresses the absence of scholarship on Hyderabadi women writers in three ways: representative translations; short, nuanced biographies; and critical analyses of their oeuvres--all framed against twentieth-century Hyderabadi history, politics, culture, and society.
650			_aHyderabad
650			_aUrdu prose
650			_aBiography
650			_aZeenath Sajida
650			_aNajma Nikhat
650			_aJeelani Bano
650			_aWomen writer
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