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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Literatures and cultures of the Islamic worldPublication details: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2012Description: xii,296p. 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780230340640
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.43910099287 22 VA-G
Summary: "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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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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