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Speaking of the self: gender, performance, and autobiography in South Asia

Speaking of the self: gender, performance, and autobiography in South Asia
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ISBN 082235991X (pbk.)
9780822359913 (pbk.)
Title Speaking of the self : gender, performance, and autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra & Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, editors
Publisher Durham, NC ; London : Duke University Press, 2015
Physical desc. x, 312 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.
Note CBL illustrations: p. [192], fig. 7.11 (In 07A.7).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
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.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 07A
Autobiography -- Women authors
Women -- South Asia -- Biography -- History and criticism
Self -- South Asia
Added name(s) Malhotra, Anshu ed.
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