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

Author/Contributor(s):	Malhotra, Anshu
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	11/06/2015
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.