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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN-139780230340640
eBay Product ID (ePID)111887934
Product Key Features
Book TitleGender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870
Book SeriesLiteratures and Cultures of the Islamic World
Publication Year2012
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
AuthorR. Vanita
TopicLiterature
Number of Pages296 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight597 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorR. Vanita