THE SULTANA'S DREAM, COLONIAL REASON AND FEMINISMS IN A ISLAMIC CONTEXT/O SONHO DA SULTANA, A RAZAO COLONIAL E OS FEMINISMOS EM CONTEXTOS ISLAMICOS

In this article, the science fiction narrative Sultana's Dream, tale written within the scope of feminist speculation by Rokeya Hossain, in 1905, will be a pretext for talking about the women's movement at the beginning of the last century, be it either the one referring to a new and fruitful intellectual production or the social movements in which they were participants. Hossain is a Bengali Muslim woman born in the great colonial India, in the region of what today is Bangladesh. Considered an important exponent of the so-called "first wave feminisms in Islamic contexts", her science fiction writings and essays make her a figure of great relevance to the insurgent demands for gender equality in the region, and she, in fact, still is an important feminist figure today in Southeast Asia. We will explore in this text the colonial and national geopolitical context that imbued Rokeya Hossain's creative imagination both in her works of fiction and in her political participation as an intellectual agitator, writer, thinker and founder of women's associations that will also be the substrate for her works of fiction. We will focus mainly on the tale Sultana's Dream, since it can be seen as one of the great feminist utopian works of the beginning of the last century and whose elements still support decolonial feminist emancipatory projects today.