Confrontational Sites: Cultural Conflicts, Social Inequality and Sexual Politics in the Work of Rukhsana Ahmad.

Focuses on Pakistani British author Rhuksana Ahmad's representation of South Asian women's bodies as sites where racial and class differences are inscribed, and as sites of patriarchal repression and female resistance. Work of Ahmad as a novelist, a playwright and translator; Discussion of how issu...

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Published in:	Essays & Studies no. 57; pp. 85 - 104
Main Authors:	Schlote, Christiane, Parker, Emma
Format:	Article
Published:	Boydell & Brewer 2004
Subjects:	Ahmad, Rukhsana South Asian women authors Women novelists Class differences Social conditions of women Pakistani authors
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