Voices of Resistance: Gender, Citizenship, and Rights in Miyah Poetry.
The term Miyah has a specific meaning in Assam. Unlike in other parts of India, where it is used to address a gentleman in an honourable way, in Assam it is a pejorative term that refers to the community of Assamese Muslims of Bengali origin. This community is now reclaiming this identity through va...
| Published in: | Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 31 - 51 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=182205312&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 182205312 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 19853106 5EWG jtl: Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature issn: 19853106 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2024 vid: 18 iid: 2 pid: 44508 pub: Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature artinfo: ui: 182205312 10.31436/asiatic.v18i2.3419 ppf: 31 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 2.6MB tig: atl: Voices of Resistance: Gender, Citizenship, and Rights in Miyah Poetry. aug: au: Misra, Manashi affil: Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, India su: Immigrants Feminists Citizenship sug: subj: Immigrants Feminists Citizenship keyword: " gender in Assamese nationalism "Miyah poetry counter storytelling identity and resistance National Register of Citizens ab: The term Miyah has a specific meaning in Assam. Unlike in other parts of India, where it is used to address a gentleman in an honourable way, in Assam it is a pejorative term that refers to the community of Assamese Muslims of Bengali origin. This community is now reclaiming this identity through various forms of creative expression including poetry. The perpetual "other" in Assamese nationalist assertions, the Miyah until recently was accorded very little agency in the popular imagination. Miyah poetry emerged as a powerful mode of resisting injustice and suffering during the preparation of the National Register of Citizens in Assam (NRC), a complex and tedious bureaucratic exercise that could render a huge section of the population "undocumented migrants." This is a genre of poetry that is resisting two kinds of power relationships - the hegemony of the Assamese language and the class hierarchy associated with the term Miyah in everyday usage. I argue that there is an explicit gender dimension of the word Miyah which has remained largely unexplored. The question of citizenship has different implications for men and women within the Miyah community, and it merits our attention to explore this difference through a feminist reading of Miyah poetry. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature is the property of Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature holder: Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language & Literature dt: @attributes: year: 2024 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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