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

by RuthVanita (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $127.18

  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.