The Golden Cage - Urdu Short Stories by Asian Women in Britain

The Golden Cage - Urdu Short Stories by Asian Women in Britain

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Author: Safia Siddiqi
Translator: Safia Siddiqi
Publisher: Sterling
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 113
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120724151

Description

This book is a collection of twelve Urdu short stories by Asian women in Britain.

Translated and compiled by Safia Siddiqi this book presents twelve beautiful stories written by Indian and Pakistani women now settled in Britain.

These stories have been written from two separate but interlinked perspectives- of the displaced and uprooted immigrant, homesick and lonely, trying to adjust to a new way of living in a cold and often unfriendly racist neighborhood ; of women becoming increasingly aware of changing values and the burden of traditional constraints imposed on wives by husbands following patriarchal norms and authoritarian ways with greater fervor when fearful of their erosion in permissive Britain.

While the feminism of most of the writers in this anthology is not overt or accentuated, it runs like an undercurrent through the entire collection, treated with detachment and irony in some stories or with emotional intensity in others.

Contents

Forward
Translator's Note
Acknowledgements

Shaheda Ahmed
THE REVELATION

Sabiha Alvi
A COMPROMISE

Firoza Jaffer
THE LUNCHEON CLUB

Mohisina Jilani
THE GOLDEN CAGE

Perveen Mirza
FLAMES AND FEALTY

Firoze Mookerji
THE STORY OF SADAQAT HUSAIN KHAN

Hamida Moin Rizvi
WE ARE CIVILISED

Talat saleem
TIME AND PLACE

Chand Sharma
REPERCUSSIONS

Saffia Siddiqi
COMMUNITY LEADER

Najma Usman
CLASSIFICATION

Naeema Ziauddin
PRECEDENCE