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Gender, sex, and the city = Urdu Rekht�i poetry in India, 1780-1870 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gender, sex, and the city/ Ruth Vanita.
Reminder of title:	Urdu Rekht�i poetry in India, 1780-1870 /
Author:	Vanita, Ruth.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 296 p.)
Subject:	Urdu poetry - History and criticism. - 18th century -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137016560
ISBN:	9781137016560 (electronic bk.)

Gender, sex, and the city = Urdu Rekht�i poetry in India, 1780-1870 /
Vanita, Ruth.

Gender, sex, and the cityUrdu Rekht�i poetry in India, 1780-1870 /[electronic resource] :Ruth Vanita. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 296 p.) - Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world. - Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Women in the City: Inner and Outer Worlds -- Women in the City: Fashioning the Self -- Eloquent Parrots: Gender and Language -- Servants, Vendors, Providers: the City's Many Voices -- Neither Straight Nor Crooked: Love and Friendship in the City -- Challenging and Changing Literary Convention: Sex in the City -- 'I'm a real sweetheart': Masculinity and Male-Male Desire -- Styling Urban Glamour: Courtesan and Poet -- Camping it Up: Jan Saheb and His Followers -- The Poetics of Play: Hybridity, Difference, Modernity -- Play, Pleasure, and the Modern Indian Imagination.

This book explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow, which was the center of a flourishing Indo-Islamic culture. 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 became a catalyst for the transformation of the love poem.

ISBN: 9781137016560 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613615121

Source: 581022Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

859453
Urdu poetry
--History and criticism.--18th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PK2168 / .V36 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 891.4/3910099287

Gender, sex, and the city = Urdu Rekht�i poetry in India, 1780-1870 /
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