Gender, sex, and the city Urdu Rekhtī poetry in India, 1780 - 1870
"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...
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Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY u.a.
Palgrave Macmillan
2012
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Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
Schriftenreihe: | Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
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Zusammenfassung: | "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"-- "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"-- |
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Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. [283] - 291 |
Beschreibung: | XII, 296 S. 25 cm |
ISBN: | 9780230340640 978-0-230-34064-0 0230340644 0-230-34064-4 |