Sultana's Dream and Selections from The Secluded Ones

Author: Rokeya (Begum.)
Secondary Author: Roushan Jahan
ISBN: 0935312838

Sultana's Dream, first published in a Madras magazine in 1905-a decade before Charlotte Perkins Gilman began to serialize Herland- is a skillfully drawn, witty, and very appealing tale of "reverse purdah." It posits a country, called Ladyland, in which women have taken over the public sphere and men are confined to the private, hidden world of seclusion. Moreover, women have rid Ladyland of war and turned science, including the invention of air travel and the use of solar power, to peaceful, productive ends. Sultana's Dream wittily exposes the injustices of purdah and imagines the possibilities of women's power unleashed. Publication of The Secluded Ones began in 1929 in the Monthly Mohammadi as a series of vignettes documenting women's experiences of purdah. Shocking both in 1929 and today, these stories illuminate the realities of life in purdah-sometimes painful, sometimes comic, sometimes cruel. Together with Sultana's Dream they offer a chronicle and an interpretation of purdah in

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Publish Date: 1988

Subjects: Fiction / General, Fiction / Literary

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Fiction)