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... Chapter 5 examines short stories from Carmen Maria Machado’s collection Her Body and Other Parties (2017) to argue that the female body is presented as a speculative arena through which self-abnegation and refusal are explored in relation to hunger and desire. Latinx scholars have shown...

... of the self. The claims of religious visibility and the controversies they provoke reveal the unspoken secular rules and norms of the public sphere in European countries. Nationalism, public sphere, and definitions of self are mainly conceptualized within the secular paradigm. Based on Turkish and Indian...

... “The Acoustic Mediation of Voice, Self, and Others” deals with spatial-relational and acoustic dimensions that are naturalized through distinct sonic, performative, and listening practices. Two operas are examined: Meredith Monk’s 2008 Songs of Ascension (originally composed for a sculptural...

... stories engage in the politics of self-composure. As this chapter demonstrates, they are discursive strategies that individualize racialized difference as fashionable personal style. Asian superbloggers’ style stories articulate Asianness as a legitimate difference—a fashionably distinct difference...

..., and the care of the self. imagination subjectivity neediness care of the self ...

... This chapter argues that queer culture is not a byproduct of a globalizing liberal-pluralism. Rather, queer culture offers an intervention in the liberal ideology of self-invention that informs both the model minority myth and the discourse of the East Asian economic miracle. According...

... This chapter examines the life writings of Nazr Sajjad Hyder that were serialized over a period of twenty-one years from 1942 to 1963 in Tahzib-e Niswan and Ismat . In particular, it demonstrates that instead of producing a single autobiography, the writing of Nazr’s self in public has taken...

... debates of reformist politics in nineteenth century Bengal, this chapter focuses on the manner in which she “constructs” her self and gives primacy to her voice—however fragmented and elusive it might be. Further, the chapter reflects on the tensions that are generated by her being apparently molded...

...Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning In reading three Partition narratives by Pakistan women discussed here, this chapter is particularly interested in the way history, personal and political, appears in their writing. The writing is marked by complex feelings of anger at how history came...

... This chapter addresses the issue of women and self-representation through the life of a wealthy courtesan and tawa’if poet, Mah Laqa Bai “Chanda” (c. 1767–c. 1824) in the court of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Hyderabad. Through her life history, the chapter analyzes the reemployment...

...Destabilizing the Normative<subtitle>The Heterogeneous Self</subtitle> This chapter unravels Piro’s 160 Kafis to show how a former Muslim prostitute, and then a novitiate in a marginally Sikh Gulabdasi establishment, fashioned a self by writing “autobiographical” verses. The transgression...

... In 1924, Raihana Tyabji composed a small book of Bhakti devotionalism entitled The Heart of a Gopi . This chapter considers how far it may be read as a kind of personal narrative, an evocation of the self. Does the referencing of an established narrative tradition give the author’s feelings...