Gender, sex, and the city: urdu rekhti poetry in india, 1780-1870
Auteur :
Vanita, R.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349343249
Date de publication :
29 févr. 2012
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,5 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.