| Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 2012 Edition Contributor(s): Vanita, R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349343242 ISBN-13: 9781349343249 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Indic - Social Science | Gender Studies - Poetry | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 891.439 |
| Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.97 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Religious Orientation - Islamic - Chronological Period - Modern - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Indian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |