02908nam 2200637 a 450 991045452630332120200520144314.01-84964-491-81-281-72532-397866117253271-4356-6195-8(CKB)1000000000533550(StDuBDS)AH22933779(SSID)ssj0000273010(PQKBManifestationID)11229068(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000273010(PQKBWorkID)10309797(PQKB)10077082(MiAaPQ)EBC3386149(Au-PeEL)EBL3386149(CaPaEBR)ebr10479621(CaONFJC)MIL172532(OCoLC)666932722(EXLCZ)99100000000053355020031017d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe woman in the muslin mask[electronic resource] veiling and identity in postcolonial literature /Daphne GraceLondon ;Sterling, Va. Pluto Press20041 online resource (272 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-2004-X 0-7453-2005-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index.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.Veils in literatureMuslim women in literatureLiterature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismPostcolonialism in literatureElectronic books.Veils in literature.Muslim women in literature.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.Postcolonialism in literature.809/.933559Grace Daphne1954-877606MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454526303321The woman in the muslin mask1996458UNINA