Gender, Sex, and the City : Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 (Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World) （Bilingual）

Vanita, Ruth

Palgrave Macmillan（2012/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230340640
• DDC分類 891.43910099287

Full 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.

Contents

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