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Dr Maryam Mirza's Outputs (16)

Resistance and its Discontents in South Asian Women's Fiction (2023)
Book
Mirza, M. (2023). Resistance and its Discontents in South Asian Women's Fiction. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526150622

This book is an examination of how English-language fiction by women writers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka has grappled with the idea and practice of resistance. A valuable, original and timely contribution to the field of South Asia... Read More about Resistance and its Discontents in South Asian Women's Fiction.

Diasporic Female Precarity and Agency in Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways (2022)
Book Chapter
Mirza, M. (2022). Diasporic Female Precarity and Agency in Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways. In B. Schmidt-Haberkamf, M. Gymnich, & K. P. Schneider (Eds.), Representing Poverty and Precarity in a Postcolonial World (88-102). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466395_007

Sunjeev Sahota’s Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Year of the Runaways (2015) charts, alternating with numerous flashbacks, a year in the life of three Indian men in Sheffield: Tochi, an illegal Dalit immigrant, Avtar, who enters the United Kingdom... Read More about Diasporic Female Precarity and Agency in Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways.

Four interviews with South Asian diasporic writers: “I ground myself in multiple spaces”: Sehba Sarwar in Conversation with Maryam Mirza”, “Reading, Writing and the Contours of Power: Mridula Koshy Speaks to Maryam Mirza”, “Remapping Canada: An Interview with Mariam Pirbhai”, and “Genres, Languages, Voices: Rukhsana Ahmad in Conversation with Maryam Mirza” (2021)
Book Chapter
Mirza, M. (2021). Four interviews with South Asian diasporic writers: “I ground myself in multiple spaces”: Sehba Sarwar in Conversation with Maryam Mirza”, “Reading, Writing and the Contours of Power: Mridula Koshy Speaks to Maryam Mirza”, “Remapping Canada: An Interview with Mariam Pirbhai”, and “Genres, Languages, Voices: Rukhsana Ahmad in Conversation with Maryam Mirza”. In C. Lokuge, & C. Ringrose (Eds.), Creative Lives: Interviews with Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Writers. Columbia University Press

Serving in the Indian diaspora: The transnational domestic servant in contemporary women’s fiction (2018)
Journal Article
Mirza, M. (2019). Serving in the Indian diaspora: The transnational domestic servant in contemporary women’s fiction. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(1), 108-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2018.1424646

While substantial attention has been paid to the depiction of racial and cultural othering experienced by middle-class female Indian immigrants in the Global North, this article grapples with a rare figure in the fiction of the Indian diaspora: a fem... Read More about Serving in the Indian diaspora: The transnational domestic servant in contemporary women’s fiction.

The Anxiety of Being Australian: Modernity, Consumerism and Identity politics in Michelle de Kretser’s The Lost Dog (2018)
Journal Article
Mirza, M. (2020). The Anxiety of Being Australian: Modernity, Consumerism and Identity politics in Michelle de Kretser’s The Lost Dog. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 55(2), 190-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989418755541

Tom Loxley, the Anglo-Indian protagonist of Michelle de Kretser’s 2007 novel The Lost Dog, has a difficult relationship with his adopted country Australia, one that is riven with anxiety as well as a profound sense of loss. This portrayal echoes, in... Read More about The Anxiety of Being Australian: Modernity, Consumerism and Identity politics in Michelle de Kretser’s The Lost Dog.

Ambiguous Pakistani-Muslim Masculinities in the Diaspora: A Study of Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2017)
Journal Article
Mirza, M. (2017). Ambiguous Pakistani-Muslim Masculinities in the Diaspora: A Study of Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers. South Asian Diaspora, 9(2), 193-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2017.1297356

Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers (2004) is expressly concerned with questions of gender inequality, gendered violence and religious orthodoxy within a diasporic Pakistani-Muslim community in England, which is shown to contrast sharply with the fre... Read More about Ambiguous Pakistani-Muslim Masculinities in the Diaspora: A Study of Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers.

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..

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.