Gender, Sex, and the City : Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

Gender, Sex, and the City : Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 - Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World

1st Edition 2012

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781349343249
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition 2012
Language: English
Number of pages: 296
Weight: 440g
Height: 235mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 17mm