Speaking of the self : gender, performance, and autobiography in South Asia / edited by Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.

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.