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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Reproduced by permission of Roushan Jahan.
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Sultana’s Dream
A Feminist Utopia
and Selections from
THE SECLUDED ONES
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Edited and Translated by Roushan Jahan
Afterword by Hanna Papanek
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Dedicated to the inheritors of Rokeya’s dream
“Sultana’s Dream”: Purdha Reversed, “The Secluded Ones”: Purdah Observed, and Rokeya: An Introduction to Her Life © 1988 by Roushan Jahan. Translation of selections from The Secluded Ones © 1981, 1988 by Roushan Jahan. Caging the Lion: A Fable for Our Time © 1988 by Hanna Papanek. “Sultana’s Dream” and selections from The Secluded Ones are reprinted and translated, respectively, from Rokeya Racanavali, with the kind permission of the Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh. All rights reserved.
Published by the Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
First edition, 1988
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rokeya, Begum.
Sultana’s dream and selections from The secluded ones.
Bibliography: p.
“Publications of Rokeya Sakhawat Houssain” : p.
1. Women—Bangladesh—Literary collections.
2. Purdah—Literary collections. 3. Rokeya, Begum.
4. Authors, Bengali—20th century—Biography.
5. Feminists—Bangladesh—Biography. I. Jahan,
Roushan. II. Papanek, Hanna. III. Rokeya, Begum.
Abarodha-b-sin. English. Selections. 1988. IV. Title.
PR420.9.R65S86 1988 823 88-11033
eISBN 978-155861-735-3
This publication is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts. The Feminist Press is also grateful to Helene D. Goldfarb for her generosity.
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CONTENTS
1. Cover Page
2. Author Photo
3. Title Page
4. Copyright Page
5. Table of Contents
6. Preface
7. Chronology
8. “Sultana’s Dream”: Purdah Reversed
9. Sultana’s Dream
10. The Secluded Ones: Purdah Observed
11. Selections from The Secluded Ones
12. Rokeya: An Introduction To Her Life
13. Afterward, Caging The Lion: A Fable for Our Time
14. Glossary
15. About the Author
16. About the Feminist Press
17. Also Available From the Feminist Press
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Preface
IN THIS BOOK, we look at purdah—the seclusion and segregation of women—through three pairs of eyes: those of an early twentieth-century Muslim writer who saw purdah from the inside and campaigned against it most of her life; those of a modern Bangladeshi literary scholar and feminist activist; and tho...
