| Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 2012 Edition Contributor(s): Vanita, R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230340644 ISBN-13: 9780230340640 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Indic - Social Science | Gender Studies - Poetry | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 891.439 |
| LCCN: 2011034093 |
| Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 love poem. |