Volume 24, Issue 6 (2022) On Violence and Resistance: Narratives of Women in South Asia
Editors Introduction
Feminist Reflections
“Gender at the Root of Everyday Life”: Equity, Activism, and the Perspectives of Diana J. Fox
Goutam Karmakar
Telling Trauma: Resisting through Embroidery Stories
Jharna Choudhury
Quest for the Ideal: Devi versus Reality
Jayita Sengupta
Poetry
Literary Perspectives
Marginality, Hypermasculinity, and the Women of Assam: Parag Das’s Sanglot Fenla as Chronicle
Uddipana Goswami
Of Contested Landscapes and Women’s Bodies: Rape as an Invasive Weapon in Malsawmi Jacob’s Zorami
Debajyoti Biswas and Zothanchhingi Khiangte
Recollecting the Body: Violence and Resistance in the Writings of a Theatre Actress in Colonial Bengal
Anannya Mitra
Cultural Violence, Violent Gendering, and Abjection: Discourses on Sites of Violence through Trans Women’s Narratives from India
Tanupriya and Dhishna Pannikot
The (Counter) Politics of Digital Comics in India: Reading Literature of the Digital Space
Debadrita Chakraborty
Hasina’s Sisters Are Machine Women: Women’s Violated Bodies and/in Bangladeshi Garments Factories
Umme Al-Wazedi
On Being Biranganas: Passivity, Agency, and Wartime Rapes in Shaukat Osman’s Nekre Aranya
Madhurima Sen
Violated Bodies and Truncated Narratives: Mapping the Changing Contours of Violence and Eco-strategies of Resistance in Contemporary South Asian Women’s Writings from Bangladesh
Nobonita Rakshit and Rashmi Gaur
Gender, Sexuality and Representation in Pakistani Literature: Qandeel Baloch as a Victim of Honor Killing
Nukhbah Taj Langah and Sumera Umrani
The Caged Bird Sings: Resilience and Resistance against the Afghan Patriarchal Culture in Nadia Hashimi’s One Half from the East
Avijit Das and Shri Krishan Rai
Women in Afghanistan: The Ambivalence of the Prison in Nadia Hashimi’s A House without Windows
Tooba Rasheed
Cultural Perspective
Comprehending the Bleeding Body: Epistemological Violence and (Un)Tabooing Menstruation in Selective Media Texts in India
Argha Basu and Priyanka Tripathi
Political Perspective
Unbearable Weight: Women and the Shaping of Political Subjects through the Politics of Corporeality
Meenakshi Malhotra and Krishna Menon
JIWS Executive Staff
- Executive Editors
- Kimberly Chabot Davis, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
- Diana Fox, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA (on leave until September 2024)
- Co-Executive Editors
- Catherine Ndinda, Human Science Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
- Priyanka Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
- Book Review Editor
- Madhavi Venkatesan Department of Economics, Northeastern University, MA , USA
- Film Review Editors
- Khumo Pone, Independent Consultant, Johannesberg, South Africa
- Mohosin Mandal, Department of English, MIET College, India
- Avishek Deb, Department of English, GITAM University, India
- Editorial Assistants
- Carley Taylor, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
- Ashley Reyes, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
- Special Issue Editor
- Goutam Karmakar, University of the Western Cape, South Africa