Gender, Sex, and the City - Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 - R. Vanita - Paperback Bog - Palgrave Macmillan - 2012 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
Description
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.
