Gender, Sex, and the City
Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870
by R. Vanita
296 pages· 2012· ISBN 9781137016560
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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.
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