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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia—from a seventeenth-century Mughal princess to twentieth century Pakistani novelists—construct and articulate their subjectivity through their autobiographical memoirs, poetry, novels, and diaries.Trade Review"The authors . . . present a significant corpus of scholarship relating to autobiography and gender which can apply broadly not only in South Asia but beyond. By carefully exploring important theoretical aspects and alternative examples of autobiography, the authors open new grounds and sources to critique autobiographical writing and methods." -- Niroshini Somasundaram * IIAS Newsletter *"Speaking of the Self is a significant contribution to understanding the complexities of representing the self by women . . . in South Asian cultures across regions and ages. It sensitizes the reader to the importance of the social, cultural, political, regional, and historical milieu in which the autobiographical narratives are played out." -- Monika Browarczyk * Biography *“These ten essays, along with a helpful introduction, come together to form an interesting and excellent collection. . . . All of these essays should be of interest to scholars and graduate students working on gender and women’s history in South Asia. Many would be useable within an undergraduate class on a wide range of related subjects." -- Judith Walsh * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 1 Part I. Negotiating Autobiography: Between Assertion and Subversion 1. A Passion for Reading: The Role of Early Twentieth-Century Urdu Novels in the Construction of an Individual Female Identity in 1930s Hyderabad / Sylvia Vatuk 33 2. Pentimento: The Self beneath the Surface / Ritu Menon 56 3. Interrupted Stories: The Self-Narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder / Asiya Alam 72 4. Kailashabashini Debi's Janaika Grihabadhur Diary: A Women "Constructing" Her "Self" in Nineteenth-Century Bengal? / Shudhra Ray 95 Part II. Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning 5. Betrayal, Anger, and Loss: Women Write the Partition in Pakistan / Uma Chakravarti 121 6. Tawa'if as Poet and Patron: Rethinking Women's Self-Representation / Shweta Sachdeva Jha 141 7. Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: The Case of Jahanara Begam / Afshan Bokhari 165 Part III. Destabilizing the Normative: The Heterogeneous Self 8. Performing a Persona: Reading Piro's Kafis / Anshu Malhotra 205 9. The Heart of a Gopi: Raihana Tyabji's Bhakti Devotionalism as Self-Representation / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 230 10. Performing Gender and Faith in Indian Theater Autobiographies / Kathryn Hansen 255 Select Bibliography 281 Contributors 301 Index 305

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia—from a seventeenth-century Mughal princess to twentieth century Pakistani novelists—construct and articulate their subjectivity through their autobiographical memoirs, poetry, novels, and diaries.Trade Review"The authors . . . present a significant corpus of scholarship relating to autobiography and gender which can apply broadly not only in South Asia but beyond. By carefully exploring important theoretical aspects and alternative examples of autobiography, the authors open new grounds and sources to critique autobiographical writing and methods." -- Niroshini Somasundaram * IIAS Newsletter *"Speaking of the Self is a significant contribution to understanding the complexities of representing the self by women . . . in South Asian cultures across regions and ages. It sensitizes the reader to the importance of the social, cultural, political, regional, and historical milieu in which the autobiographical narratives are played out." -- Monika Browarczyk * Biography *“These ten essays, along with a helpful introduction, come together to form an interesting and excellent collection. . . . All of these essays should be of interest to scholars and graduate students working on gender and women’s history in South Asia. Many would be useable within an undergraduate class on a wide range of related subjects." -- Judith Walsh * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 1 Part I. Negotiating Autobiography: Between Assertion and Subversion 1. A Passion for Reading: The Role of Early Twentieth-Century Urdu Novels in the Construction of an Individual Female Identity in 1930s Hyderabad / Sylvia Vatuk 33 2. Pentimento: The Self beneath the Surface / Ritu Menon 56 3. Interrupted Stories: The Self-Narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder / Asiya Alam 72 4. Kailashabashini Debi's Janaika Grihabadhur Diary: A Women "Constructing" Her "Self" in Nineteenth-Century Bengal? / Shudhra Ray 95 Part II. Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning 5. Betrayal, Anger, and Loss: Women Write the Partition in Pakistan / Uma Chakravarti 121 6. Tawa'if as Poet and Patron: Rethinking Women's Self-Representation / Shweta Sachdeva Jha 141 7. Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: The Case of Jahanara Begam / Afshan Bokhari 165 Part III. Destabilizing the Normative: The Heterogeneous Self 8. Performing a Persona: Reading Piro's Kafis / Anshu Malhotra 205 9. The Heart of a Gopi: Raihana Tyabji's Bhakti Devotionalism as Self-Representation / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 230 10. Performing Gender and Faith in Indian Theater Autobiographies / Kathryn Hansen 255 Select Bibliography 281 Contributors 301 Index 305

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Book SynopsisThis volume details methods and protocols covering multiple aspects of Medulloblastoma. Divided into four parts, chapters guide readers through nucleic acids detection and analysis, cell-based analysis methodologies, and applications of patient-information on designing better experimental strategies for future drug development efforts in Medulloblastoma. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and cutting-edge, Medulloblastoma: Methods and Protocols aims to deliver a clear-cut and standardized set of protocols to a broad scientific community.Table of Contents 1. Childhood Medulloblastoma: An Overview Yujin Suk, William D Gwynne, Ian Burns, Chitra Venugopal and Sheila K Singh Part I: Molecular Assay-based Methods 2. Real-time PCR assays on formalin-fixed paraffin embedded medulloblastomas Ratika Kunder and Neelam Vishwanath Shirsat 3. Validation of microRNA target genes using luciferase reporter assay and western blot analysis Pooja Panwalkar, Atul Khire and Neelam Shirsat 4. Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Assays on Medulloblastoma Cell Line DAOY Tara Dobson and Jyothishmathi Swaminathan 5. Quantification of microRNAs in cells and tissues using stem-loop RT PCR and qPCR Pooja Panwalkar, Atul Khire and Neelam Shirsat 6. Analysis of Microarray Data from Medulloblastoma tissue samples Debojyoti Dhar and Gopala Kallapura 7. Advancement of single- cell sequencing in Medulloblastoma Deepanshu Verma, Namyashree Nayak, Ashuthosh Singh, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Neha Garg Part II: Cellular Assays and Inhibitors for Medulloblastoma 8. Flow cytometry approaches to obtain medulloblastoma stem cells from bulk cultures Praveen Kumar and Neha Garg 9. Drug Screening assays on Medulloblastoma Stem Cells using compound libraries Ashutosh Singh and Neha Garg 10. 3D-on-2D: A physiologically-relevant and gel-free in vitro co-culture method to assay anti-metastatic agents Abhinav Dey, Samuel Eisenberg, Rayna Birnbaum and David J Sharp 11. In vitro screening assay for activators of T- cell migration to solid tumors Abhinav Dey and David Sharp 12. Impact of Nano preparation of phytoconstituents in Medulloblastoma Priyanka Mishra and Y.B. Tripathi 13. Challenges and Recent Advances of novel chemical inhibitors in Medulloblastoma Therapy Anand Maurya, Upendra Kumar Patel, Jitendra Kumar Yadav, Virender Pratap Singh, Alka Agarwal 14. Role of ayurvedic plants as anti-cancer agents Nikhil Pandey and Y.B. Tripathi Part III: Animal Models in Medulloblastoma 15. In vivo tumorigenicity assays using subcutaneous and orthotopic xenografts in immunodeficient mice Kedar Yogi, Rahul Thorat and Neelam Shirsat 16. Manufacture of an Oncolytic Measles Virus-Sensitive Immune-Competent Mouse Model of Medulloblastoma. Sangeet Lal and Corey Raffel Part IV: Patient data based approaches for Biomedical Research in Medulloblastoma 17. Preclinical Research Strategy Development for RNAi-based therapies in Oncology using patient-centred information from public databases of Human Protein Atlas and R2Genomics Platform Abhinav Dey, Isabelle Balachandran, Ava Solis and David J Sharp 18. Magnetic resonance imaging in the contemporary management of medulloblastoma: current and emerging applications Archya Dasgupta, Madan Maitre, Sona Pungavkar and Tejpal Gupta 19. Multidisciplinary Management of Medulloblastoma: Consensus, Challenges and Controversies Abhishek Chatterjee, Madan Maitre, Archya Dasgupta, Epari Sridhar and Tejpal Gupta

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