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The Space of the Transnational: Feminisms and Ummah in African and Southeast Asian Writing

The Space of the Transnational: Feminisms and Ummah in African and Southeast Asian Writing

Edwin, Shirin E.

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Series: Suny Series, Genders in the Global South

Fiction AnthologiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1438486383
ISBN13: 9781438486383
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2022
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Challenges and reimagines transnational feminism by analyzing the concept of ummah, or community, in Muslim women's writing.

This book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah, or community, to solve problems of domestic and communal violence, polygamous abuse, sterility, and heteronormativity. By closely reading and examining examples of ummah-building strategies in interfaith dialogues, exchanges, and encounters between Muslim and non-Muslim women in a selection of African and Southeast Asian fictions and essays, this book highlights women's assertive activisms to redefine transnationalism, understood as relationships across national boundaries, as transgeography. Ummah-building strategies shift the space of, or respatialize, transnational relationships, focusing on connections between communities, groups, and affiliations within the same nation. Such a respatialization also enables a more equitable and inclusive remediation of the citizenship of gendered and religious citizens to the nation-state and the transnational sphere of relationships.

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