The Ghazal Eros: Lyric Queerness in History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9788196580315)

The old ghazal, i.e. the poetry of eros in Urdu, Persian and Arabic, has been read as great literature but seldom as a document of history. This book argues that there is one element - the expression of masculine passion (ʽishq) for a masculine object - that has shaped the ghazal historically and across languages. The neglect of this element, which it terms lyric queerness, in mainstream cultural history and even LGBTQ studies, screens from us a lyrical corpus that was historically aware, vernacularizing, and suspicious of other-worldly interpretations and is represented here by the ghazal of the Indian subcontinent.

Author: Shad Naved
ISBN-10: 8196580312
ISBN-13: 9788196580315
Publisher: Tulika Books
Language: English
Published: 03/25/2025
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover