Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 (2012) (Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2012
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781137016560
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780230340640
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan US, New York
- Date of Addition:
- 02/11/21
- Copyrighted By:
- R. Vanita
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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