Ebook: Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhtī Poetry in India, 1780–1870
Author: Ruth Vanita (auth.)
- Tags: Gender Studies, Postcolonial/World Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Middle Eastern Literature, Islam
- Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal.
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