Gender, sex, and the city

"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"--

שנה

2012

שפה

English

סדרה

Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world

הוצאה

Palgrave Macmillan

מהדורות

3

עמודים

296

ISBN

9780230340640

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