Elusive lives : gender, autobiography, and the self in Muslim South Asia /

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Author / Creator:	Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan, author.
Imprint:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	South Asia in Motion Ser. South Asia in Motion Ser.
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. Autobiography -- Women authors. Self in literature. South Asian literature. Women in literature. South Asia. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12019911

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ISBN:	9781503606524 150360652X 9781503604803 1503604802 9781503606517 1503606511
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan. Elusive lives. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 9781503604803

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