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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Malhotra, Anshu (Editor), Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Autobiography > Women authors. Autobiography > South Asian authors. Self > South Asia. Women > South Asia > Biography > History and criticism. Self. Women. South Asia. Biography. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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.