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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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| Natura: | Printed Book |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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| Serie: | Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world
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| Riassunto: | "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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| Descrizione fisica: | xii, 296 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230340640(hardback) |