TY  - BOOK
AU  - Malhotra,Anshu
AU  - Lambert-Hurley,Siobhan
TI  - Speaking of the self: gender, performance, and autobiography in South Asia 
SN  - 9789385932380
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Zubaan
KW  - Autobiography
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Self
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Women
KW  - Biography
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - 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
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