Gender, Sex, and the City Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870
Description
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.
Keywords
Social ScienceGender StudiesLiterary CriticismPoetryMiddle EasternReligionIslamWomen's Studies
2012Book
Author(s)Ruth Vanita
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9780230340640
LanguageEnglish
