Gender, Sex, and the City
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Gender, Sex, and the City

Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

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eBook - PDF

Gender, Sex, and the City

Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870
  3. Contents
  4. Note from the Editor
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. CHAPTER 1: Women in the City: Fashioning the Self
  9. CHAPTER 2: Eloquent Parrots: Gender and Language
  10. CHAPTER 3: Servants, Vendors, Artisans: The City’s Many Voices
  11. CHAPTER 4: Neither Straight nor Crooked: Love and Friendship in the City
  12. CHAPTER 5: Playfully Speaking: Transforming Literary Convention
  13. CHAPTER 6: “I’m a Real Sweetheart”: Masculinity and Male-Male Desire
  14. CHAPTER 7: Styling Urban Glamour: Courtesan and Poet
  15. CHAPTER 8: Camping It Up: Jan Sahib and His School
  16. CHAPTER 9: A Poetics of Play: Hybridity, Difference, Modernity
  17. CONCLUSION: The Eternal City: Pasts and Futures
  18. Notes
  19. Glossary
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index