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The Essential Rokeya
Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)
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In The Essential Rokeya, Mohammad A. Quayum brings together, for the first time, some of the best work by one of South Asiaâs 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 â Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). This collection includes Rokeyaâs most popular story, Sultanaâs Dream, and some essays and letters written originally in English, as well as Quayumâs 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 Rokeyaâs fundamental role in the feminist awakening in South Asia, especially among the Bengali Muslims of her time.
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).
â⦠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 Rokeyaâs works.â
Paoi Hwang in Asiatic 8.1 (2014), 237-239
Paoi Hwang in Asiatic 8.1 (2014), 237-239
All who are interested in South Asian womenâs history, comparative Islamic history and comparative womenâs studies, and anyone concerned with South Asian literature, culture, history and society, or with womenâs writings.