Aparna Lanjewar Bose is a writer, poet, critic and translator. She is the author of 2 volumes of poetry In the Days of Cages and Kuch Yu Bhi. She has published a collection of poetry translations from Marathi to English titled Red Slogans on the Green Grass and has edited a collection of Marathi poems and short stories titled Wadal Uthnar Aahey and Pakshin Ani Chakravyuh respectively.Professionally, she has taught at University of Nagpur and at the Post Graduate teaching Department of English, University of Mumbai for more than one and a half decade. She currently teaches at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

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• Introduction 1. (Re)Positioning the ‘Other’: Perspectives on Marathi Dalit and Black Women Writings 2. What the Text Does not Say: Significant Absence  and the Self in Arathi Menon’s Leaving Home with Half a Fridge 3. Retracing the Discourse of Referential Truth in Claude Cahun and Alison Bechdel’s Visual Narratives 4. Humorous Women’s Memoirs in the Entertainment Industry 5. A Case for Homosexuality: Reading Anchee Min’s Red Azalea as a Political Autobiography 6. Self, Time and Death as Autobiographical Elements in Performance Art 7. Intersecting Terrains of Personal and Politics: An Arab Feminist Reading of Fadwa Tuqan’s A Mountainous Journey 8. Subverting Literary Space: From [His]stories to [Her]story in Writings of Kamala Das, Sally Morgan and Melba Pattillo Beals 9. Daughter of the East and the Perils of (Self)Idealization 10. Identity and Self-Representation in Taslima Nasreen’s My Girlhood 11. Sexuality, Self and Body: Reading Michèle Roberts’ Memoir Paper Houses 12. Vocalizing the Voiceless: Struggle for a Personal Voice in Maxine Hong Kingston’s TheWoman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 13. Lifting ‘the Quilt’: Ismat Chughtai’s A Life in Words and the Subversion of the Normative 14. Indian Nationalism and Hindu Widowhood: Contesting Margins in Indira Goswami’s Adha Lekha Dastabej 15. Veiled Voices: Semi-autobiographies of Yemeni Writers Nadia al-Kawkabani and Shatha al-Khateeb 16. Breaking the Silence: Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord 17. Re-Reading Azar Nafisi’s memoir Things I’ve Been Silent About 18. Rational Femininity and the Mode of Hijra Autobiographies: The Affects of Being a Gendered Object 19. Marginalized Sexual Identity: A Flash Point of Body/Desire/Politics 20. Self narratives of working Class women: Voices from the Global South 21. Of Being Ants amongst Elephants: The Anecdotes and the Antidotes

Aparna Lanjewar Bose is a writer, poet, critic and translator. She is the author of 2 volumes of poetry In the Days of Cages and Kuch Yu Bhi. She has published a collection of poetry translations from Marathi to English titled Red Slogans on the Green Grass and has edited a collection of Marathi poems and short stories titled Wadal Uthnar Aahey and Pakshin Ani Chakravyuh respectively.Professionally, she has taught at University of Nagpur and at the Post Graduate teaching Department of English, University of Mumbai for more than one and a half decade. She currently teaches at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

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• Introduction 1. (Re)Positioning the ‘Other’: Perspectives on Marathi Dalit and Black Women Writings 2. What the Text Does not Say: Significant Absence  and the Self in Arathi Menon’s Leaving Home with Half a Fridge 3. Retracing the Discourse of Referential Truth in Claude Cahun and Alison Bechdel’s Visual Narratives 4. Humorous Women’s Memoirs in the Entertainment Industry 5. A Case for Homosexuality: Reading Anchee Min’s Red Azalea as a Political Autobiography 6. Self, Time and Death as Autobiographical Elements in Performance Art 7. Intersecting Terrains of Personal and Politics: An Arab Feminist Reading of Fadwa Tuqan’s A Mountainous Journey 8. Subverting Literary Space: From [His]stories to [Her]story in Writings of Kamala Das, Sally Morgan and Melba Pattillo Beals 9. Daughter of the East and the Perils of (Self)Idealization 10. Identity and Self-Representation in Taslima Nasreen’s My Girlhood 11. Sexuality, Self and Body: Reading Michèle Roberts’ Memoir Paper Houses 12. Vocalizing the Voiceless: Struggle for a Personal Voice in Maxine Hong Kingston’s TheWoman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 13. Lifting ‘the Quilt’: Ismat Chughtai’s A Life in Words and the Subversion of the Normative 14. Indian Nationalism and Hindu Widowhood: Contesting Margins in Indira Goswami’s Adha Lekha Dastabej 15. Veiled Voices: Semi-autobiographies of Yemeni Writers Nadia al-Kawkabani and Shatha al-Khateeb 16. Breaking the Silence: Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord 17. Re-Reading Azar Nafisi’s memoir Things I’ve Been Silent About 18. Rational Femininity and the Mode of Hijra Autobiographies: The Affects of Being a Gendered Object 19. Marginalized Sexual Identity: A Flash Point of Body/Desire/Politics 20. Self narratives of working Class women: Voices from the Global South 21. Of Being Ants amongst Elephants: The Anecdotes and the Antidotes

Aparna Lanjewar Bose is a writer, poet, critic and translator. She is the author of 2 volumes of poetry In the Days of Cages and Kuch Yu Bhi. She has published a collection of poetry translations from Marathi to English titled Red Slogans on the Green Grass and has edited a collection of Marathi poems and short stories titled Wadal Uthnar Aahey and Pakshin Ani Chakravyuh respectively.Professionally, she has taught at University of Nagpur and at the Post Graduate teaching Department of English, University of Mumbai for more than one and a half decade. She currently teaches at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

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• Introduction 1. (Re)Positioning the ‘Other’: Perspectives on Marathi Dalit and Black Women Writings 2. What the Text Does not Say: Significant Absence  and the Self in Arathi Menon’s Leaving Home with Half a Fridge 3. Retracing the Discourse of Referential Truth in Claude Cahun and Alison Bechdel’s Visual Narratives 4. Humorous Women’s Memoirs in the Entertainment Industry 5. A Case for Homosexuality: Reading Anchee Min’s Red Azalea as a Political Autobiography 6. Self, Time and Death as Autobiographical Elements in Performance Art 7. Intersecting Terrains of Personal and Politics: An Arab Feminist Reading of Fadwa Tuqan’s A Mountainous Journey 8. Subverting Literary Space: From [His]stories to [Her]story in Writings of Kamala Das, Sally Morgan and Melba Pattillo Beals 9. Daughter of the East and the Perils of (Self)Idealization 10. Identity and Self-Representation in Taslima Nasreen’s My Girlhood 11. Sexuality, Self and Body: Reading Michèle Roberts’ Memoir Paper Houses 12. Vocalizing the Voiceless: Struggle for a Personal Voice in Maxine Hong Kingston’s TheWoman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 13. Lifting ‘the Quilt’: Ismat Chughtai’s A Life in Words and the Subversion of the Normative 14. Indian Nationalism and Hindu Widowhood: Contesting Margins in Indira Goswami’s Adha Lekha Dastabej 15. Veiled Voices: Semi-autobiographies of Yemeni Writers Nadia al-Kawkabani and Shatha al-Khateeb 16. Breaking the Silence: Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord 17. Re-Reading Azar Nafisi’s memoir Things I’ve Been Silent About 18. Rational Femininity and the Mode of Hijra Autobiographies: The Affects of Being a Gendered Object 19. Marginalized Sexual Identity: A Flash Point of Body/Desire/Politics 20. Self narratives of working Class women: Voices from the Global South 21. Of Being Ants amongst Elephants: The Anecdotes and the Antidotes