Love and Marriage
Reimagining Muslim female subjectivity in Kamila Shamsie's Salt and saffron
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4952698 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Muhammad Safdar (0000-0002-3927-3781, University of Central Punjab, corresponding author), Musarat Yasmin (0000-0002-0571-7575, University of Gujrat) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 201-217 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09213740231183426 |
| OpenAlex | W4380152397 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
Muslim women in popular Western imagination have usually been viewed as victims of forced marriages and suppressed individualistic rights to love/desire, and Islam as the primary source of it. The trend has intensified in the post-9/11 gendered Islamophobic spotlight. Anglophone literature by Muslim women writers has countered this monolithic narrative by exploring the multi-layered complexity and fluidity of Muslim womanhood. We aim to examine the subjectivity of Muslim women as explored in Kamila Shamsie's novel Salt and Saffron regarding love/desire and marriage by drawing on the concepts of performativity and third space to intervene in the discourse of Muslim women's gender subjectivity. We examine how the female protagonist (Aliya) transforms her consciousness of her rights and cultural norms into her battles for agency and expansive space for choice and decision in love and marriage without open confrontation against and submission to norms. This performative subjective position comes out as inclusive and agentive, re-signifying the norms and the individualist awareness into an indeterminate, third space of enunciation. We foreground the epistemology that interlaces mobility-shaped individualistic awareness and consciousness of norms to contradict the monolithic Muslim woman compliant/victim theoretical frame
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Individualism · Islam · Literature · Narrative · Performative utterance · Performativity · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Theology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Redefining Pakistani Muslim wifehood in Hamid’s and Shamsie’s fiction
Framing Muslims
Political Islam and Masculinity
Gender Trouble
Repositioning sexuality of spatially mobile Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie’s broken verses
Faith and feminism in Pakistan
Women, islam, and the state in Pakistan
Between “pardah” and sexuality
Covid‐19
Negotiating mobility in gendered spaces
Gender, Identity and Place
Exploring Alternativism
Do-it-Yourself Activism in Pakistan
Towards an ethics of reading Muslims
Embodied violence
Feminist 'Selves' and Feminism's 'Others
Muslim female subjectivity in Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Islamic Traditions of Modernity
Woman Skin Deep
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |