Writing Gender Writing Self: Memory, Memoir and Autobiography

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: (Re)Positioning the ‘Other’: Perspectives on Marathi Dalit and Black Women Writings
Chapter 2: What the Text Does not Say: Significant Absence and the Self in Arathi Menon’s Leaving Home with Half a Fridge
Chapter 3: Retracing the Discourse of Referential Truth in Claude Cahun and Alison Bechdel’s Visual Narratives
Chapter 4: Humorous Women’s Memoirs in the Entertainment Industry
Chapter 5: A Case for Homosexuality: Reading Anchee Min’s Red Azalea as a Political Autobiography
Chapter 6: Self, Time and Death as Autobiographical Elements in Performance Art
Chapter 7: Intersecting Terrains of Personal and Politics: An Arab Feminist Reading of Fadwa Tuqan’s A Mountainous Journey
Chapter 8: Subverting Literary Space: From [His]stories to [Her]story in Writings of Kamala Das, Sally Morgan and Melba Pattillo Beals
Chapter 9: Daughter of the East and the Perils of (Self)Idealization
Chapter 10: Identity and Self-Representation in Taslima Nasreen’s My Girlhood
Chapter 11: Sexuality, Self and Body: Reading Michèle Roberts’ Memoir Paper Houses
Chapter 12: Vocalizing the Voiceless: Struggle for a Personal Voice in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Chapter 13: Lifting ‘the Quilt’: Ismat Chughtai’s A Life in Words and the Subversion of the Normative
Chapter 14: Indian Nationalism and Hindu Widowhood: Contesting Margins in Indira Goswami’s Adha Lekha Dastabej
Chapter 15: Veiled Voices: Semi-autobiographies of Yemeni Writers Nadia al-Kawkabani and Shatha al-Khateeb
Chapter 16: Breaking the Silence: Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord
Chapter 17: Re-Reading Azar Nafisi’s memoir Things I’ve Been Silent About
Chapter 18: Rational Femininity and the Mode of Hijra Autobiographies: The Affects of Being a Gendered Object
Chapter 19: Marginalized Sexual Identity: A Flash Point of Body/Desire/Politics
Chapter 20: Self narratives of working Class women: Voices from the Global South
Chapter 21: Of Being Ants amongst Elephants: The Anecdotes and the Antidotes
List of Contributors
Index