Intimate Class Acts
Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women’s Fiction
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224 pages
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Hardback
224 pages
Maryam Mirza
In this scholarly work, Maryam Mirza examines ten novels in English by women writers from the Indian subcontinent. She explores the role of power and desire, and of emotional and physical intimacy in cross-class relations. Striking similarities in how gendered and classed identities are lived in India and Pakistan are revealed in this book.
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Maryam Mirza
Description
The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between Sai, an upper-class Gujarati girl, and Gyan, a lower-middle-class Nepali boy, crosses both class and ethnic boundaries. The marriage between Ram, an aristocratic Hindu, and Rose, a working-class Englishwoman, transgresses racial and class lines while also reinforcing patriarchal hierarchies. These relationships in Ice-Candy-Man, The Inheritance of Loss, and Rich Like Us reveal striking similarities in how gendered and classed identities are lived in India and Pakistan.
In this scholarly work, Maryam Mirza examines ten novels in English by women writers from the Indian subcontinent. She explores the role of power and desire, and of emotional and physical intimacy in cross-class relations. Among others, Mirza examines well-known novels such as Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron, and works that have hitherto drawn limited critical attention, such as Moni Mohsin’s The End of Innocence and Brinda Charry’s The Hottest Day of the Year.
About the Author
Maryam Mirza is a BeIPD-COFUND postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Liège, Belgium. In June–July 2015, she held a Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust Visiting Fellowship at Newcastle University, UK. Maryam has taught at several universities and colleges in Pakistan, including Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore.
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Maryam Mirza
Table of contents
Foreword by Tabish Khair
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writing Class, Writing Intimacy
- Ayahs and Playmates in Ice-Candy-Man, The Hope Chest, and The End of Innocence
- The (Im)possibility of Female Solidarity Beyond Class? The Binding Vine and The Space Between Us
- Loving Class Others in The God of Small Things and Salt and Saffron
- Domestic/Employee Seduction in The Hottest Day of the Year, The Space Between Us, and The God of Small Things
- National or Class Allegories? Romance in Rich Like Us and The Inheritance of Loss
- Speaking Back: The Politics of Cross-Class Dialogue
Conclusion: Intimacy Across Class—Modes of Elitist Narration?
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Maryam Mirza
Maryam Mirza
Description
The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between Sai, an upper-class Gujarati girl, and Gyan, a lower-middle-class Nepali boy, crosses both class and ethnic boundaries. The marriage between Ram, an aristocratic Hindu, and Rose, a working-class Englishwoman, transgresses racial and class lines while also reinforcing patriarchal hierarchies. These relationships in Ice-Candy-Man, The Inheritance of Loss, and Rich Like Us reveal striking similarities in how gendered and classed identities are lived in India and Pakistan.
In this scholarly work, Maryam Mirza examines ten novels in English by women writers from the Indian subcontinent. She explores the role of power and desire, and of emotional and physical intimacy in cross-class relations. Among others, Mirza examines well-known novels such as Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kamila Shamsie’s Salt and Saffron, and works that have hitherto drawn limited critical attention, such as Moni Mohsin’s The End of Innocence and Brinda Charry’s The Hottest Day of the Year.
About the Author
Maryam Mirza is a BeIPD-COFUND postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Liège, Belgium. In June–July 2015, she held a Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust Visiting Fellowship at Newcastle University, UK. Maryam has taught at several universities and colleges in Pakistan, including Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore.
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Table of contents
Foreword by Tabish Khair
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Writing Class, Writing Intimacy
- Ayahs and Playmates in Ice-Candy-Man, The Hope Chest, and The End of Innocence
- The (Im)possibility of Female Solidarity Beyond Class? The Binding Vine and The Space Between Us
- Loving Class Others in The God of Small Things and Salt and Saffron
- Domestic/Employee Seduction in The Hottest Day of the Year, The Space Between Us, and The God of Small Things
- National or Class Allegories? Romance in Rich Like Us and The Inheritance of Loss
- Speaking Back: The Politics of Cross-Class Dialogue
Conclusion: Intimacy Across Class—Modes of Elitist Narration?
Bibliography
Index
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