Gender, Sex, and the City Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 [Hardcover]

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.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

The book belongs to my favorite genre, where the translations, excellent as they are, push the reader toward tasting the 'original.'' - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, series editor (with Hosam Aboul-Ela) of Theory in the World JV

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