Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia by Anshu Malhotra, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

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

Anshu Malhotra, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

328 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to Speaking of the Self challenge this presumption by examining a wide range of women's autobiographical writing from South Asia. ...

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