| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) |
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Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world |
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Literatures and cultures of the Islamic world.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- 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 -- Playfully spaking: transforming lirerary convention -- 'I'm a real sweetheart': masculinity and male-male desire -- Styling urban glamour: courtesan and poet -- Camping it up: Jān Ṣāḥib and his followers -- A poetics of play: hybridity, difference, modernity -- Conclusion: the eternal city: pasts and futures |
| Summary |
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 |
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"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 ghazal"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Urdu poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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Urdu poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
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RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
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Urdu poetry
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137016560 |
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1137016566 |
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9781280585296 |
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1280585293 |
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