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Author Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan, author

Title Elusive lives : gender, autobiography, and the self in Muslim South Asia / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series South Asia in Motion Ser
South Asia in Motion Ser
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Autobiography -- Women authors.
Autobiography -- Muslim authors
Muslim women authors -- South Asia -- Biography -- History and criticism
Women authors, South Asian -- Biography -- History and criticism
South Asian literature -- History and criticism
Women in literature.
Self in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Presidents & Heads of State.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Rich & Famous.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Royalty.
Autobiography -- Women authors
Self in literature
South Asian literature
Women in literature
South Asia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781503606524
150360652X