Gender, sex, and the city
Subtitle: Urdu Rekhtī poetry in India, 1780-1870
By: Ruth Vanita
Series: Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230340640
Subjects: RELIGION / Islam / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern; History and criticism; Urdu Poetry; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Description: "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"--