Gender, sex and the city Urdu Rekhti poetry in India 1780-1870

Vanita, Ruth

Gender, sex and the city Urdu Rekhti poetry in India 1780-1870 - New York Palgrave Macmillan 2012 - xii,296p. 25 cm. - Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world . - Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow, which was the center of a flourishing Indo-Islamic culture. 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 became a catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal"--

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Urdu Poetry--History and criticism.--18th century
Urdu Poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
RELIGION / Islam / General

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