Speaking of the Self : Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan (Editor ), Malhotra, Anshu (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Schriftstellerin
Autobiografische Literatur
Women.
Self.
Autobiography > Women authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Royalty.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Femmes > Asie meridionale > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Moi (Psychologie) > Asie meridionale.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
Women > South Asia > Biography > History and criticism.
Self > South Asia.
Südasien
South Asia.
Biographies.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Biography
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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