Telling lives in India : biography, autobiography, and life history
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Telling lives in India : biography, autobiography, and life history
Indiana University Press, c2004
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Summary: Contributed articles drawn from a workshop held at the British Library on May 15-17, 2000
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Life histories have a wide, if not universal, appeal. But what does it mean to narrate the story of a life, whether one's own or someone else's, orally or in writing? Which lives are worth telling, and who is authorized to tell them? The essays in this volume consider these questions through close examination of a wide range of biographies, autobiographies, diaries, and oral stories from India. Their subjects range from literary authors to housewives, politicians to folk heroes, and include young and old, women and men, the illiterate and the learned. The contributors are David Arnold, Stuart Blackburn, Sudipta Kaviraj, Barbara D. Metcalf, Kirin Narayan, Francesca Orsini, Jonathan P. Parry, Jean-Luc Racine, Josiane Racine, David Shulman, and Sylvia Vatuk.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Life Histories in India David Arnold and Stuart BlackburnPART ONE: CONFRONTING MODERNITY2. The Self and the Cell: Indian Prison Narratives as Life Histories David Arnold 3. The Reticent Autobiographer: Mahadevi Varma's Writings Francesca Orsini 4. The Invention of Private Life: A Reading of Sibnath Sastri's Autobiography Sudipta KavirajPART TWO: TRANSLATING TRADITION5. The Shaik Tells His Own Story: Instruction, Pleasure, and Blessing in Maulana Muhammad Zakariyya's Aap Biitii Barbara D. Metcalf 6. Hamara Daur-I Hayat: An Indian Muslim Woman Writes Her Life Sylvia Vatuk 7. Cowherd or King? The Sanskrit Biography of Ananda Ranga Pillai David Shulman 8. Life-History as Narrative Strategy: Prophecy, Song, and Truth-Telling in Tamil Tales and Legends Stuart BlackburnPART THREE: SPOKEN LIVES9. "Honor is Honor, After All:" Silence and Speech in the Life Stories of Women in Kangra, Northwest India Kirin Narayan 10. Beyond Silence: A Dalit Life History Josiane Racine and Jean-Luc Racine 11. The Marital History of "A Thumb-Impression Man" Jonathan P. Parry
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