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Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 (Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World)
Gender Sex and the City Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India 17801870 - Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
Author: Ruth Vanita
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780230340640
ISBN-10: 0230340644
Publication Date: 2/15/2012
Pages: 310
Edition: Bilingual
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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