Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhtī Poetry in India, 1780–1870 by Ruth Vanita (auth.)
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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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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