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Gender, sex, and the city : Urdu Rekhtī poetry in India, 1780-1870
- Title
- Gender, sex, and the city : Urdu Rekhtī poetry in India, 1780-1870 / Ruth Vanita.
- Author
- Vanita, Ruth.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 296 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
- Uniform Title
- Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-3578
- ISBN
- 9780230340640 (hardback)
- 0230340644 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011034093
- OCLC
- YBP 2011034093
- Author
- Vanita, Ruth.
- Title
- Gender, sex, and the city : Urdu Rekhtī poetry in India, 1780-1870 / Ruth Vanita.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Literatures and cultures of the Islamic worldLiteratures and cultures of the Islamic world.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-3578