Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-34064-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 609 g

Reihe: Literatures and Cultures of th

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanita, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

RUTH VANITAVisiting Professor in the South Asia Language Area Center at the University of Chicago, USA.