Stories With Oil Stains : The World of Women 'Digest' Writers in Pakistan, Pa...

Description: Stories With Oil Stains : The World of Women 'Digest' Writers in Pakistan, Paperback by Ahmed, Kiran Nazir, ISBN 019940898X, ISBN-13 9780199408986, Brand New, Free shipping in the US How do women fiction writers articulate lived realities and imagined scenarios of being a woman in Pakistan through Urdu popular fiction (digest stories) and television plays? How do they form bonds of friendship in the absence of physical proximity (since readers and writers rarely meet each
other)? How do they respond to notions of their writing as frivolous entertainment? In answering such questions, this book provides an alternative paradigm for womens voices. Drawing on twenty months of fieldwork conducted in four urban cities and villages in two provinces in Pakistan, this work
presents an ethnographic account of women fiction writers engagement with the digest genre (published in commercial monthly magazines) and the community (of readers and writers) formed around it. These fictional stories are extremely popular. However, they are socially perceived as low brow and
disavowed as having no literary merit. In this context, this research traces the specific forms attachment, articulation, and agency take in the lives of women whose stories resonate with many, but who also face the critique of not being authentic writers.

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