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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia 1
5. Part I. Negotiating autobiography: Between Assertion and Subversion
6. 1. A Passion for Reading: The Role of Early Twentieth-Century Urdu Novels in the Construction of an Individual Female Identity in 1930s Hyderabad 33
7. 2. Pentimento: The Self beneath the Surface 56
8. 3. Interrupted Stories: The Self-Narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder 72
9. 4. Kailashbashini Debi’s Janaika Grihabadhur Diary: A Woman “Constructing” Her “Self ” in Nineteenth-Century Bengal? 95
10. Part II. Forms and modes of self- fashioning
11. 5. Betrayal, Anger, and Loss: Women Write the Partition in Pakistan 121
12. 6. Tawa’if as Poet and Patron: Rethinking Women’s Self-Representation 141
13. 7. Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: The Case of Jahanara Begam 165
14. Part III. Destabilizing the normative:The Heterogeneous Self
15. 8. Performing a Persona: Reading Piro’s Kafis 205
16. 9. The Heart of a Gopi: Raihana Tyabji’s Bhakti Devotionalism as Self-Representation 230
17. 10. Performing Gender and Faith in Indian Theater Autobiographies 255
18. Select Bibliography 281
19. Contributors 301
20. Index 305