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Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

Posted By: DZ123
Date: 13 Jun 2020 06:25:01
Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

R. Vanita, "Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0230340644 | PDF | pages: 301 | 3.3 mb

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.
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