Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

By Ruth Vanita

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349343242
• ISBN13: 9781349343249
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"