Different speakers, different loves: Urban women in Rekhti poetry

Subalternity and Difference: Investigations from the North and the South

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 57-76

  Vanita, Ruth ^a  

^a University of Montana   (Canada)

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References (5)

1. Frances Pritchett, Nets ofAwareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics (Karachi, 1995), 77-122.
2. Carla Petievich, When Men Speak as Women: Vocal Masquerade in Indo-Muslim Poetry (New Delhi, 2007), translates a sampling of different types of Urdu poetry that use a female speaker.
3. Andalib Shadani, "Farsi Ghazal aur Jafa-i Mehboob," Tehqiqat (Bareilly, no date), 223-65; C. M. Naim, "The Theme of Homosexual (Pederastic) Love in Pre-Modern Urdu Poetry," in Muhammad Umar Memon, ed., Studies in the Urdu Ghazal and Prose Fiction (Madison WI, 1979), 120-42; and Tariq Rahman, "Boy-Love in the Urdu Ghazal," Annual ofUrdu Studies 7 (1990): 1-20), analyze it as age-specific and role-specific; Saleem Kidwai, in his "Introduction: Medieval Materials in the Perso-Urdu Tradition," in Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai, Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (New York, 2000) 107-25, relates it to male homoerotic subcultures in medieval urban north India, demonstrating that it was not always age- or role-specific.
4. Muhammad Husain Azad, Ab-e Hayat, translated and edited by Frances Pritchett (New Delhi, 2001), 232-33.
5. Saleem Kidwai, "Of Begums and Tawaifs: The Women of Awadh," in Women s Studies in India: A Reader Mary John, ed. (New Delhi: Penguin, 2008).