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Attia Hosain (20 October 1913 – 25 January 1998) was a British-Indian novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor. [2] [3] She was a woman of letters and a diasporic writer. She wrote in English although her mother tongue was Urdu. [4]
Aug 24, 2021 · Attia Hosain: an exquisite writer who deftly analysed female power. Hosain’s fiction evokes a lost world—but also one in great flux. By Kamila Shamsie. August 24, 2021. Attia Hosain. Credit: Vic Singh. Attia Hosain was the first person to ever speak to me as though I was an adult.
Jan 25, 1998 · Attia Hosain (1913–1998) was a writer, feminist and broadcaster. She was born in 1913 in Lucknow in a taluqdar background. She moved to Britain in 1947. Attia was born in Lucknow and went to the local La Martiniere Girls' College.
Jan 23, 1998 · Attia Hosain was born into a wealthy landowning family in northern India. Her father was educated at Cambridge University, and her mother was the founder of an institute for women's education and welfare. Hosain attended the Isabella Thoburn College at the University of Lucknow, becoming the first woman from a landowning family to ...
Jan 18, 2015 · Attia Hosain was reborn as a writer, gained a new transnational reputation, stayed in the public eye for a decade, indeed until her eighty-fourth birthday a few days before her final illness in 1997. Her influence on two generations to follow would be and is immeasurable.
Attia Hosain (20 October 1913 – 25 January 1998) was a British-Indian novelist, author, writer, broadcaster, journalist and actor. She was a woman of letters and a diasporic writer. She wrote in English although her mother tongue was Urdu.
In essence, the article argues that Hosain partakes in an alternate, gynocentric narrative of the partition of India. Keywords: Attia Hosain, Indian partition, domestic fiction, purdah/zenana culture, Muslim women, South Asian feminism, Muslim aristocratic home, Sunlight on a Broken Column.
