Gender, Sex, and the City

Vanita, Ruth:
Gender, Sex, and the City : Urdu Reḵẖtī Poetry in India, 1780-1870 / Ruth Vanita. - New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - xii, 296 S. - (Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World)
ISBN 978-0-230-34064-0
£ 52,00 / US$ 90,00
DDC: 891.43910099287

Beschreibung
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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Note from the Editor. ix
Acknowledgments. xi
List of Abbreviations. xiii
Introduction. 1
1. Women in the City: Fashioning the Seif. 41
2. Eloquent Parrots: Gender and Language. 75
3. Servants, Vendors, Artisans: The City's Many Voices. 97
4. Neither Straight nor Crooked: Love and Friendship in the City. 115
5. Playfully Speaking: Transforming Literary Convention. 145
6. "I'm a Real Sweetheart": Masculinity and Male-Male Desire. 175
7. Styling Urban Glamour: Courtesan and Poet. 189
8. Camping It Up: Jān Ṣāḥib and His School. 213
9. A Poetics of Play: Hybridity, Difference, Modernity. 233
Conclusion: The Eternal City: Pasts and Futures. 255
Notes. 259
Glossary. 279
Bibliography. 283
Index. 293

Autorin
RUTH VANITA, Visiting Professor in the South Asia Language Area Center at the University of Chicago, USA. Wikipedia [en].

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