Speaking of the self : gender, performance, and autobiography in South Asia /
The contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia--from a seventeenth-century Mughal princess to twentieth century Pakistani novelists--construct and articulate their subjectivity through their autobiographical memo...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : gender, performance, and autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
- A passion for reading : the role of early twentieth-century Urdu novels in the construction of an individual female identity in 1930s Hyderabad / Sylvia Vatuk
- Pentimento : the self beneath the surface / Ritu Menon
- Interrupted stories : the self-narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder / Asiya Alam
- Kailashbashini Debi's Janaika Grihabadhur diary : a woman "constructing" her "self" in nineteenth-century Bengal? / Shubhra Ray
- Betrayal, anger, and loss : women write the partition in Pakistan / Uma Chakravarti
- Tawa'if as poet and patron : rethinking women's self-representation / Shweta Sachdeva Jha
- Masculine modes of female subjectivity : the case of Jahanara Begam / Afshan Bokhari
- Performing a persona : reading Piro's kafis / Anshu Malhotra
- The heart of a gopi : Raihana Tyabji's Bhakti devotionalism as self-representation / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
- Performing gender and faith in Indian theater autobiographies / Kathryn Hansen.
