Elusive lives : gender, autobiography, and the self in Muslim South Asia /

Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, the author highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new lens th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.
Colección:South Asia in Motion Ser.
Temas:
Autobiography > Women authors.
Autobiography > Muslim authors.
Muslim women authors > South Asia > Biography > History and criticism.
Women authors, South Asian > Biography > History and criticism.
South Asian literature > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Self in literature.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
Autobiographie > Auteurs musulmans.
Littérature sud-asiatique > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Royalty.
South Asian literature.
South Asia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the ultimate unveiling
  • Life/history/archive
  • The sociology of authorship
  • The autobiographical map
  • Staging the self
  • Autobiographical genealogies
  • Coda : unveiling and its attributes.

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