Title: Gender, sex, and the city
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"--
Subjects: RELIGION / Islam / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, History and criticism, Urdu Poetry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Urdu literature, history and criticism, Urdu poetry
Time periods: 19th century, 18th century