Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 by Vanita, R.

Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349343249)

Vendor: R. Vanita
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$54.99
$54.99
$54.99
Subtotal: $54.99
Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 by Vanita, R.

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

$54.99
Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 by Vanita, R.

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

$54.99
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
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.

Author: R. Vanita
ISBN-10: 1349343242
ISBN-13: 9781349343249
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/29/2012
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d
By R. Vanita
By R. Vanita
x
RUTH VANITAVisiting Professor in the South Asia Language Area Center at the University of Chicago, USA.

Recently Viewed Products