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| Title: | Women in Concert
: An Anthology of Bengali: Muslim Women's Writings, 1904-1938 |
| Author: | Shaheen Akhtar & Moushumi Bhowmik |
| ISBN: | 8185604576 : 9788185604572 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 140x215mm |
| Pages: | 400 |
| Published: | Stree - August 2008 |
| List Price: | 32 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | Not yet published |
| Subjects: | Collections & anthologies of various literary form: Womens studies: India |
Translated from the original anthology in Bengali by Stree. Throwing light on the work and lives of unknown or forgotten Muslim women writers of pre-Independence Bengal, when the state was not yet partitioned between India and East Pakistan (today's Bangladesh), in 1947, this anthology is like a rediscovery of their lives. First published in Bengali as Zenana Mehfil: Bangali Musalman Lekhikader Nirbachita Rachana, 1904-38, it compiles, for the first time, eleven Bengali Muslim women's writings: essays, short stories, poetry, a novel and some correspondence, each introduced and discussed separately. This anthology also gives a glimpse of their lives that were not always confined within the household. The writers include Akhtar Mahal, Sayyada Khatun and M. Fatema Khanum, and other much more familiar names like Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and Shamsundar Mahmud. Among the immensely valuable interviews are those of Mohammed Nasiruddin, who devoted his life to the cause of Bengali Muslim women's emancipation, his daughter Nurjehan Begum, the poet Sufia Kamal, the writer Hameeda Khanam and Syed Mustafa Siraj, the celebrated Bengali novelist who witnessed the social changes that were to alter the Bengali Muslim world.
Preface; Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, 1880-1932: Feminism and Reality; Khairunnissa: The Educationist (date of birth unknown; died between 1906-1911); The Valiant Mrs. M. Rahman 1885-1926; M. Fatema Khanam: Short Story Writer 1894-1957; Nurneccha Khatun Vidyavinodini: Novelist 1894-1975; Akhtar Mahal Saiyida Khatun: Portrait of the Inner Quarters 1901-1928; Faziltunnessa, M.A., 1905-1975; Mahmuda Khatun Siddiqa, A Lone Woman Outside Purdah 1906-1977; Raziya Khatun Choudhurani, The Life of an Artist That Was Cut Short 1907-1934; Shamsunnahar Mahmud, Leader of the Working Women’s Movement 1908-1964; Sufiya Kamal: Poet and Social Reformer 1911-1999; 12. Mohammed Nasiruddin and the Liberation of Women 1888-1993; Sufiya Kamal: The Last Representative of the Age of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain; Nurjehan Begam, the Daughter of Mohammed Nasiruddin, Editor of Begum; Hameeda Khanam:Among the First to Receive Higher Education b 1923; Sayid Mustapha Siraj, Novelist, b 1929; Index.
