Malhotra / Lambert-Hurley Speaking of the Self

Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

The contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia—from a seventeenth-century Mughal princess to twentieth century Pakistani novelists—construct and articulate their subjectivity through their autobiographical memoirs, poetry, novels, and diaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malhotra, Anshu

Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 1

Part I. Negotiating Autobiography: Between Assertion and Subversion

1. 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 33

2. Pentimento: The Self beneath the Surface / Ritu Menon 56

3. Interrupted Stories: The Self-Narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder / Asiya Alam 72

4. Kailashabashini Debi's Janaika Grihabadhur Diary: A Women "Constructing" Her "Self" in Nineteenth-Century Bengal? / Shudhra Ray 95

Part II. Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning

5. Betrayal, Anger, and Loss: Women Write the Partition in Pakistan / Uma Chakravarti 121

6. Tawa'if as Poet and Patron: Rethinking Women's Self-Representation / Shweta Sachdeva Jha 141

7. Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: The Case of Jahanara Begam / Afshan Bokhari 165

Part III. Destabilizing the Normative: The Heterogeneous Self

8. Performing a Persona: Reading Piro's Kafis / Anshu Malhotra 205

9. The Heart of a Gopi: Raihana Tyabji's Bhakti Devotionalism as Self-Representation / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 230

10. Performing Gender and Faith in Indian Theater Autobiographies / Kathryn Hansen 255

Select Bibliography 281

Contributors 301

Index 305

Über Autor(innen)

Anshu Malhotra is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delhi and the author of Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab.

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Reader in International History at the University of Sheffield and author of Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal.