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The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) (Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World): 13
Author(s): Mohammad Quayum (Translator)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 22 Aug. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004255850
- ISBN-13: 9789004255852
Book Description
In The Essential Rokeya, Mohammad A. Quayum brings together, for the first time, some of the best work by one of South Asia’s earliest and most heroic feminist writers and activists, who was also a leading figure of the Bengal Renaissance in the nineteenth and early twentieth century – Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). This collection includes Rokeya’s most popular story, Sultana’s Dream, and some essays and letters written originally in English, as well as Quayum’s own translation of several of her fiction and non-fiction works written originally in Bengali. This will enable readers outside Bangladesh and West Bengal to appraise and appreciate Rokeya’s fundamental role in the feminist awakening in South Asia, especially among the Bengali Muslims of her time.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“… not only a very good read but also an academically accomplished work that would provide a novice with a great introduction to or an academic with a reliable translation of Rokeya’s works.”
Paoi Hwang in Asiatic 8.1 (2014), 237-239
Paoi Hwang in Asiatic 8.1 (2014), 237-239
About the Author
Mohammad A. Quayum, Ph.D. (Flinders University, 1991), is Professor of English at International Islamic University Malaysia. He has published monographs, translations and articles on literature, including Rabindranath Tagore: Selected Short Stories (Macmillan, 2011) and Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism (Peter Lang, 2004).
