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Women's Writing in Action: On Female-authored Hajj Narratives in Qajar Iran.
- Source :
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Iranian Studies . Jan-Apr2021, Vol. 54 Issue 1/2, p67-93. 27p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- This paper examines the textual and performative functions of early women's writings on the example of three accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca written during the Qajar era by Mehrmāh Khānom ʿEsmat al-Saltaneh (1880–81), the anonymous Hājiyeh Khānom ʿAlaviyeh Kermāni (1892–94), and Sakineh Soltān Vaqār al-Dowleh Esfahāni Kuchak (1899–1901). It ponders on the relationships between the female writers and textuality, their readers and, finally, the diary personas they created. It claims that their writings emerged in the process of negotiating the then existing, masculine models of textuality and authorial authority. By rejecting the monologic authoritativeness of literature and textuality, the women diarists transformed their texts into a space for dialogue—including dialogue with themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *TRAVEL writing
*WOMEN authors
*DIARISTS
QAJAR dynasty, Iran, 1794-1925
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00210862
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 1/2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Iranian Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 148751817
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2020.1724506