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Description

1. xii, 296 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "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

1. Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world

Uniform title

1. Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world.

Subject

1. LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
2. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
3. RELIGION / Islam / General
4. Urdu poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
5. Urdu poetry > 18th century > History and criticism

Call number

1. JFE 12-3578

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Vanita, Ruth.

Title

1. Gender, sex, and the city : Urdu Rekhtī poetry in India, 1780-1870 / Ruth Vanita.

Imprint

1. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Series

1. Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
2. Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2011034093

ISBN

1. 9780230340640 (hardback)
2. 0230340644 (hardback)

Research call number

1. JFE 12-3578