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Published: 01 January 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822384960-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8496-0
Published: 17 November 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385028-020
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8502-8
Published: 01 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060185-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6018-5
... 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...
Series: Public Planet Books
Published: 30 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375135-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7513-5
... 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...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 18 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374695-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7469-5
... “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...
Published: 03 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373421
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7342-1
Series: Console-ing Passions
Published: 12 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373902-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7390-2
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374312-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7431-2
Published: 21 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374886-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7488-6
... 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...
Published: 17 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375364-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7536-4
..., and the care of the self. imagination subjectivity neediness care of the self ...
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By Petrus Liu
Published: 30 September 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375081-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7508-1
... 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...
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374978
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
Published: 03 March 2014
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376644-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7664-4
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374978-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374978-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
... 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...
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374978-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
... 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...
Published: 12 October 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
...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...
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374978-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
... 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...
Published: 12 October 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
...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...
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374978-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7497-8
... 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...