The Woman In The Muslin Mask: Veiling and Identity in Postcolonial Literature

✍ Scribed by Daphne Grace

Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 267
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Western feminists have in the past singled out the veiling of women as a potent symbol of women’s oppression under Islam. Daphne Grace explores the far more complex and contested role of veiling over the last 120 years. Looking at the ways in which the veil is used in literature, and its representations in writing from the East and the West, she shows how veiling has come to stand for both oppression and resistance. Grace asks why, at the start of the new millennium, veiling seems more popular than ever – and explores what veiling means for the women themselves.Chapters are arranged geographically and chronologically, beginning with the 'imperial gaze' of Victorian England, moving to the Arab Islamic world of the Middle East and the Maghreb and finally to India, in the process exploring the nationalist, religious, political and cultural meanings of the veil in its many manifestations, then and now.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 8
1 Background to the Veil: History, Theory and Culture......Page 9
2 Imagining Veiled Woman......Page 45
3 Revealing and Re- veiling: Egypt......Page 75
4 Piety and Patriarchy: The Arabian Peninsula and the Eastern Mediterranean......Page 108
5 Violence, Liberation and Resistance: North Africa......Page 136
6 Subversion, Seduction and Shame: India......Page 168
7 Conclusion: Liberating the Veil......Page 210
Notes......Page 226
Bibliography......Page 249
Index......Page 262

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