The Resource The upstairs wife : an intimate history of Pakistan, Rafia Zakaria
The upstairs wife : an intimate history of Pakistan, Rafia Zakaria
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The item The upstairs wife : an intimate history of Pakistan, Rafia Zakaria represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- "A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women. Rafia Zakaria's Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, feeling the situation for Muslims in India was precarious and that Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time it did. Her family prospered, and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistan's military dictators began an Islamization campaign designed to legitimate their rule--a campaign that particularly affected women. The political became personal for Zakaria's family when her Aunt Amina's husband did the unthinkable and took a second wife, a betrayal of kin and custom that shook the foundation of her family. The Upstairs Wife dissects the complex strands of Pakistani history, from the problematic legacies of colonialism to the beginnings of terrorist violence to increasing misogyny, interweaving them with the arc of Amina's life to reveal the personal costs behind ever-more restrictive religious edicts and cultural conventions. As Amina struggles to reconcile with a marriage and a life that had fallen below her expectations, we come to know the dreams and aspirations of the people of Karachi and the challenges of loving it not as an imagined city of Muslim fulfillment but as a real city of contradictions and challenges"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 251 pages
- Contents
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- Prologue
- The Return
- Birth of a Nation
- The Scent of Other Cities
- A Suburban Wedding
- Half a Wife
- The Woman in Charge
- The Graveyards of Karachi
- Loving and Leaving
- A Return to the Original
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780807003367
- Label
- The upstairs wife : an intimate history of Pakistan
- Title
- The upstairs wife
- Title remainder
- an intimate history of Pakistan
- Statement of responsibility
- Rafia Zakaria
- Subject
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- Karachi (Pakistan) -- Biography
- Misogyny -- Pakistan
- Muslim women -- Pakistan | Karachi -- Biography
- Pakistan -- History
- Pakistan -- Religious life and customs
- Aunts -- Pakistan | Karachi -- Biography
- Polygamy -- Social aspects -- Pakistan | Karachi
- Women -- Pakistan -- Social conditions
- Zakaria, Rafia, 1978- -- Family
- Pakistan -- Social conditions
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women. Rafia Zakaria's Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, feeling the situation for Muslims in India was precarious and that Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time it did. Her family prospered, and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistan's military dictators began an Islamization campaign designed to legitimate their rule--a campaign that particularly affected women. The political became personal for Zakaria's family when her Aunt Amina's husband did the unthinkable and took a second wife, a betrayal of kin and custom that shook the foundation of her family. The Upstairs Wife dissects the complex strands of Pakistani history, from the problematic legacies of colonialism to the beginnings of terrorist violence to increasing misogyny, interweaving them with the arc of Amina's life to reveal the personal costs behind ever-more restrictive religious edicts and cultural conventions. As Amina struggles to reconcile with a marriage and a life that had fallen below her expectations, we come to know the dreams and aspirations of the people of Karachi and the challenges of loving it not as an imagined city of Muslim fulfillment but as a real city of contradictions and challenges"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- collective biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Zakaria, Rafia
- Dewey number
-
- 954.91/830509252
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- DS392.2.K3
- LC item number
- Z26 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Zakaria, Rafia
- Aunts
- Muslim women
- Polygamy
- Women
- Misogyny
- Karachi (Pakistan)
- Pakistan
- Pakistan
- Pakistan
- Label
- The upstairs wife : an intimate history of Pakistan, Rafia Zakaria
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue -- The Return -- Birth of a Nation -- The Scent of Other Cities -- A Suburban Wedding -- Half a Wife -- The Woman in Charge -- The Graveyards of Karachi -- Loving and Leaving -- A Return to the Original -- Epilogue
- Control code
- ocn879582474
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 251 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807003367
- Isbn Type
- (hardback : acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 2014027339
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Label
- The upstairs wife : an intimate history of Pakistan, Rafia Zakaria
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue -- The Return -- Birth of a Nation -- The Scent of Other Cities -- A Suburban Wedding -- Half a Wife -- The Woman in Charge -- The Graveyards of Karachi -- Loving and Leaving -- A Return to the Original -- Epilogue
- Control code
- ocn879582474
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 251 pages
- Isbn
- 9780807003367
- Isbn Type
- (hardback : acid-free paper)
- Lccn
- 2014027339
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- Karachi (Pakistan) -- Biography
- Misogyny -- Pakistan
- Muslim women -- Pakistan | Karachi -- Biography
- Pakistan -- History
- Pakistan -- Religious life and customs
- Aunts -- Pakistan | Karachi -- Biography
- Polygamy -- Social aspects -- Pakistan | Karachi
- Women -- Pakistan -- Social conditions
- Zakaria, Rafia, 1978- -- Family
- Pakistan -- Social conditions
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