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印度女作家的那本书的背景 Inner Courtyard (Aangan) : A Novel/Khadija Mastur. Translated by Neelam Hussain. New Delhi, Kali for Women, 2001, 274 p., ISBN 81-86706-45-8.
Book Description "Narrated in the intimate anger of a young woman’s journal-keeping voice this novel explores the politics of sex and class through the lives of women compelled to live their lives in the seclusion(隔离) of the inner courtyard or aangan. Set in thirties India, Inner Courtyard is the story of a dystopic home where the battles of the world are played out. Based on the interiority of women’s lives it explores realpolitik(现实政治) through the personal and political affiliations of one family." (jacket) About the AuthorKhadija Mastur (1927-1982) was a member of the Progressive Writers' Association, formed by a group of left-leaning intellectuals in 1935. She wrote several collections of short stories and two novels. Khadija Mastur was born in 1927 in Lucknow and grew up in a family that valued learning, reading and political dialogue. Mastur and her younger sister Hajira Masroor, worked actively for the Muslim League in 1946, and a year later, when Partition came along, her family migrated to Lahore, Pakistan. Khadija Mastur wrote in a simple but eloquent style. She the author of several collections of short stories and two novels, Aangan (The Courtyard) and Zamin (Earth). She was posthumously honored with the Baba-e-Urdu, Dr. Abdul Haq Award for her collection of short stories Thanda Meetha Pani (Cold, Sweet Water).
Inner Courtyard or Aangan, Khadija Mastur’s first published novel, written in 1952 over eight months, is Mastur’s best loved and most acclaimed fiction. Set in British India and moving in to post independence Pakistan, Aangan is the story of dystopic home where the battles of the world are played out. Based on the of women’s lives, the inner courtyard, it explores realpolitick through the diverse political affiliations of the members of one family. That it does so without espousing (支持,赞成)any one shade of opinion makes Aangan a politically sensitive and not a political novel (即提出了很多政治因素,观点,但是作者的态度是很中立的,没有评价和表态这些观点). Khadija Mastur deals with the theme of the Freedom Movement, not from the perspective of men but from the point of view of the women whose lives were changed radically by the decisions made by men in the public arena. It is a powerful novel built around female protagonists (主角)and the ways in which they mediate their space in society while condemned to the enclosed world of the inner courtyard, enmeshed in (使陷入)and sustained by strong familial ties and age-old customs. |
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