Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
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
	2. Pentimento: The Self beneath the Surface / Ritu Menon
	3. Interrupted Stories: The Self-Narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder / Asiya Alam
	4. Kailashbashini Debi’s Janaika Grihabadhur Diary: A Woman “Constructing”  Her “Self” in Nineteenth-Century Bengal? / Shubhra Ray
Part II. Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning
	5. Betrayal, Anger, and Loss: Women Write the Partition in Pakistan / Uma Chakravarti
	6. Tawa’if as Poet and Patron: Rethinking Women’s Self-Representation / Shweta Sachdeva Jha
	7. Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: The Case of Jahanara Begam / Afshan Bokhari
Part III. Destabilizing the Normative: The Heterogeneous Self
	8. Performing a Persona: Reading Piro’s Kafis / Anshu Malhotra
	9. The Heart of a Gopi: Raihana Tyabji’s Bhakti Devotionalism as Self-Representation / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
	10. Performing Gender and Faith: In Indian Theater Autobiographies / Kathryn Hansen
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