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