Life Writing and Translation

Part I - Introduction Part II - Truth-telling, Re-imagining and Translation 1. Inscribing the True Self, Translating Masculinities: Experiments with Gender in Gandhi's Writings and Life Narrations 2. Retelling as Translation: The Refashioning of Vaishnavite Hagiographies as Bio-fiction in Postcolonial Assam 3. "I saw a light": Translation and the Question of Agency in the Lifewritings of Suryakant Tripathi Nirala 4. Truth-telling and Translation in Maitreyi Pushpa's autobiographies Kasturi Kundal Basai and Gudiya Bheetar Gudiya Part III - Translating Resistance and Revolution 5. Translating the Self in Ajitha's Ormmakurippukal: Context, Concerns and Challenges 6. Tek Nath Rizal's Nirbasan as a study of translation at the Eastern Himalayan Border 7. The Self and the Cell in Minakshi Sen's Prison Writing 8. Translating the Revolutionary Self: Political Auto/biographies and Memoirs in Punjabi Part IV - Gender, Agency and/in Translation 9. ?ayat-e Ashraf as an Auto/biography: Translating Women's Resistance and Agency 10. 'Bepardahgi' amid Social Taboo: Radical Acts of Narration in Bilquis Jehan Khan's Autobiography A Song of Hyderabad (2010) 11. Mary Kom's Collaborative Autobiography: Negotiating Authorship 12. Translating Desire and Dissent: A Study of Rajbangsi Women's Folksongs Part V - Life Writing, Marginality and Translation 13. Dalit Writing and/ in Translation: Analysing Dalit Women's Life Narratives in Marathi 14. Translation of Dalit Victimhood and Difference: An Examination of Bhanwar Meghwanshi's I Could Not Be Hindu 15. Writing the Disabled Self: Gender, Sexuality and Women with Disabilities 16. Translated Lives: Devadasis and the Anti-Nautch Movement Part VI - Memory, Migration and Translation 17. Uncanny Memory-scapes: The Recreated Pastoral in two contemporary Bangla Partition (1947) Memoirs 18. Privileging Non-Conformity, Itinerancy and Rationality: Self-Articulation as Resistance in Dilara Hashem's Kaktaliyo 19. Migrant Identities: Seeking Self and Subjectivity in Lily Halder's Bhanga Berhar Panchali and Sanchita Roy's Ongar