Speaking of the Self - Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South AsiaPaperback
Speaking of the Self - Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South AsiaPaperback Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. Expanding the…
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Speaking of the Self - Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South AsiaPaperback
Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. Expanding the definition of what kinds of writing can be considered autobiographical, the contributors analyze everything from poetry, songs, mystical experiences, and diaries to prose, fiction, architecture, and religious treatises. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide range of women's autobiographical writing from South Asia.
The contributors find that in these autobiographies the authors construct their The authors they study are just as diverse: a Mughal princess, an eighteenth-century courtesan from Hyderabad, a nineteenth-century Muslim prostitute in Punjab, a housewife in colonial Bengal, a Muslim Gandhian devotee of Krishna, several female Indian and Pakistani novelists, and two male actors who worked as female impersonators.