Gender, Sex, and the City
Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870| By: | R. Vanita |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9780230340640 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137016560 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2012 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.