Elusive lives : gender, autobiography, and the self in Muslim South Asia / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley.

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Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan [author.]

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TextSeries: South Asia in Motion SerPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781503606524
150360652X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Elusive lives.DDC classification:

920.72 23

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CT25 .L265 2018eb

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Contents:

Introduction : the ultimate unveiling -- Life/history/archive -- The sociology of authorship -- The autobiographical map -- Staging the self -- Autobiographical genealogies -- Coda : unveiling and its attributes.

Summary: Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, the author highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new lens through which to study notions of selfhood. In this book, she locates the voices of Muslim women who rejected taboos against women speaking out, by telling their life stories in written autobiography. To chart patterns, materials dated from the sixteenth century to the present are drawn from across South Asia - including present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, the author highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new lens through which to study notions of selfhood. In this book, she locates the voices of Muslim women who rejected taboos against women speaking out, by telling their life stories in written autobiography. To chart patterns, materials dated from the sixteenth century to the present are drawn from across South Asia - including present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

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