| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
South Asia in Motion Ser.
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South Asia in Motion Ser.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Autobiography -- Women authors. |
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Autobiography -- Muslim authors.
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Autobiography. |
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Muslim authors. |
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Muslim women authors -- South Asia -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Muslim women authors. |
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South Asia. |
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Biography. |
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Women authors, South Asian -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Women authors, South Asian. |
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South Asian literature -- History and criticism.
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South Asian literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan. Elusive lives. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9781503604803 (DLC) 2017054457 (OCoLC)1007751105 |
| ISBN |
9781503606524 (electronic book) |
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150360652X (electronic book) |
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9781503604803 |
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1503604802 |
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9781503606517 |
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1503606511 |
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