Interrogating Dynamics of Gender and Power in Islam: A Study of Select Novels of Contemporary Women Writers

The book attempts to interrogate the dynamics of gender and power in Islam primarily from Marxist and feminist perspective. The research is based on the select novels of contemporary women writers namely Jean Sasson’s Princess trilogy Tehimima Anam’s The Good Muslim and Samina Ali’s Madras on Rainy Days. The study  aims at collectively situating the principal protagonists—Sultana Maha and Amani in Princess trilogy Maya and Sohail in The Good Muslim and Layla and Sameer in Madras on Rainy Days—in the historical and temporal contexts of extant societal processes. The novels are studied from the Marxist feminist viewpoint to trace the instrumental role that government plays in the differential treatment of women in different countries- Saudi Arabia Bangladesh India and America.Conclusively the study remonstrates the prevalent narratives of religion and gender amidst the multiple formulations of power structure.