Dr. Amrita Basu Roy Chowdhury

Lady Brabourne College, India

Bio

Amrita Basu Roy Chowdhury currently serves as a Teaching Faculty Member at Lady Brabourne College, India and a Mass Communication Guest Lecturer at Jadavpur University, India. An alumna of Women’s Christian College and Jadavpur University, she holds a PhD and was awarded the UGC Junior Research Fellowship. Her specialized research covers gender and media, the women’s movement, cultural studies, qualitative methodologies, and cross-cultural literature. Outside of academia, she provides free education to marginalized school children.

The Poetics of Resistance: Interrogating Patriarchal and Religious Hegemonies in Contemporary North African and South Asian Muslim Women’s Writing

Abstract

This paper critiques patriarchal and religious dominance in contemporary North African and South Asian Muslim women’s literature. By comparing authors Nawal El Saadawi, Fatema Mernissi, Taslima Nasrin, and Samina Ali, the study applies feminist, postcolonial, and cultural theories to examine how oppressed women transform into vocal rebels. Specifically, it contrasts the secular radicalism of El Saadawi and Nasrin against the Islamic feminism of Mernissi and Ali, tracing how they subvert physical and social confinement.