Gender, sex, and the city

Description:

"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"--

subjects: RELIGION / Islam / General,  LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern,  History and criticism,  Urdu Poetry,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies,  Urdu literature, history and criticism

Times: 19th century,  18th century