Lifting the Veil

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  • ENGLISH

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  • 288

    Pages
  • 9780143066453

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  • 1 mm

    Width
  • 13 mm

    Height
  • 19 gram

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  • PAPERBACK

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  • 1 JANUARY 2009

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    At a time when writing by and about women was rare and tentative, Ismat Chughtai explored female sexuality with unparalleled frankness and examined the political and social mores of her time. She wrote about the world that she knew, bringing the idiom of the middle class to Urdu prose, and totally transformed the complexion of Urdu fiction. Lifting the Veil brings together I At a time when writing by and about women was rare and tentative, Ismat Chughtai explored female sexuality with unparalleled frankness and examined the political and social mores of her time. She wrote about the world that...  Read More

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    Ismat Chughtai

    Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective.

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