This book explores subaltern subjecthood, resistance and sexual agency in the works of Muslim women writers from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh since the early 20th century. Locating the Muslim woman in the fiction of these countries from a sub-continental locus, it incorporates concepts of race, diaspora and postcolonial feminism in its reading of selected texts along with precepts of Islamic feminist hermeneutics in the South Asian context. It rejects the homogenization of sub-continental Muslim women as a monolithic victim subject and focuses on the multiplicity of voices that emerge from their writing both in the colonial and the postcolonial contexts.

The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, gender studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.

Sabreen Ahmed received her PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2013 for her thesis "Muffled Voices: The Zenana in the Fiction of Muslim Women Writers from South Asia". She teaches in the Department of English, Nowgong College (Autonomous) upgraded to Nagaon University, Nagaon, Assam, India, as an Associate Professor. Her recent edited books are Interface: Language, Ecology and Gender in North East (2021), Inked Wreaths (2024) and Interstice: Troubled Mind and Gendered Spaces (2024). She has widely published poems, short stories, book reviews, etc., as a creative practice along with academic articles in reputed journals.