Outputs (16)

Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction. (2016)
Book
Mirza, M. (2016). Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199466740.001.0001

Intimate Class Acts is an interdisciplinary study of ten anglophone novels by women writers from India and Pakistan that grapple with the fascinating theme of emotional and physical intimacy between the haves and the have-nots in the Indian subcontin... Read More about Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction..

Intimacy across Caste and Class Boundaries in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things (2015)
Book Chapter
Mirza, M. (2015). Intimacy across Caste and Class Boundaries in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. In J. Misrahi-Barak, & A. Joshi (Eds.), Dalit Literatures in India. Routledge

Men at Home, Men and Home in Two Anglophone Novels by Indian Women Writers (2015)
Journal Article
Mirza, M. (2015). Men at Home, Men and Home in Two Anglophone Novels by Indian Women Writers. Gender, Place and Culture, 23(7), 1061-1070. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369x.2015.1090409

Postcolonial Indian women novelists writing in English have been deeply concerned with addressing the ways in which ‘home’ in patriarchal societies is an ambiguous space, characterized by unequal gender relationships that make it a terrain rife with... Read More about Men at Home, Men and Home in Two Anglophone Novels by Indian Women Writers.

"An All-weather, All-terrain Fighter": Subaltern Resistance, Survival and Death in Mohammed Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (2014)
Journal Article
Mirza, M. (2015). "An All-weather, All-terrain Fighter": Subaltern Resistance, Survival and Death in Mohammed Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 50(2), 150-163. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989414537287

Victor Li’s theory of necroidealism draws our attention to the tendency in literary works and writings by Subaltern Studies historians to romanticize the dead subaltern so that in death he or she emerges as an “exemplary, heroic symbol of resistance”... Read More about "An All-weather, All-terrain Fighter": Subaltern Resistance, Survival and Death in Mohammed Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti.

Female Space and its Discontents in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors (2011)
Book Chapter
Mirza, M. (2011). Female Space and its Discontents in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terrors. In C. Omhovère (Ed.), Perceiving and Representing Space in the English-Speaking World (81-95). Presses universitaires de Nancy

Female Relationships across Class Boundaries: A Study of Three Contemporary Novels by Women Writers from the Indian Sub-continent (2010)
Journal Article
Mirza, M. (2010). Female Relationships across Class Boundaries: A Study of Three Contemporary Novels by Women Writers from the Indian Sub-continent. Sri Lanka Journal of the Humanities, 36, 11-18