Gender, Sex, and the City : Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 PDF
by R. Vanita
Part of the Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World series
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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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- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan US
- Publication Date:14/02/2012
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