Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers :
Representation, Identity and Religion of Muslim Women in Indonesian Fiction

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Title

Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers :
Representation, Identity and Religion of Muslim Women in Indonesian Fiction

Subject

Literature: history & criticism

Description

Most literary analysis of the canon of Indonesian literature overlooks its religious aspect. This book is the first to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in literary writing by four prominent Indonesian Muslim women writers: Titis Basino P I, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy and Helvy Tiana Rosa. The narratives of the four writers are rich sources for revealing the construction of Indonesian Muslim women's identities. Within their feminist reading the writers understand that gender roles are negotiable rather than inherent. In representing women in a variety of discourses they draw multi-faceted women struggling against repression and domination, and resisting their status as powerless.

Creator

Arimbi, Diah Ariani

Source

https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31054

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Date

2009

Contributor

Guruh Haris Raputra

Rights

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Format

Pdf

Language

English

Type

Textbooks

Identifier

DOI 10.5117/9789089640895

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