Gender politics and the Urdu ghazal: Exploratory observations on Rekhta versus Rekhti

Petievich, Carla

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“…While the former expressed love the latter Petievich argues was merely sexually suggestive bawdy poetry. [10] But Ruth Vanita is of the opinion that rekhti was very much in the tradition of riti kavya, medieval romances, and erotic treatises. It was an evolution of these earlier forms prevalent in Indian languages.…”

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“… 15. The major scholarly positions in this debate in English belong to Ruth Vanita (2012) and Carla Petievich (2001). …”

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Teaching Indo-Islamic poetry: Sexuality in the global classroom

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The article argues that a critical encounter with pre-modern literatures from the national past is long overdue under the impact of a globalized discourse of sexuality. Its effects are already felt at the level of both pedagogy and literary reading, one reconstituting the other, in the ‘global classroom’, a self-conscious pedagogical space imagined by the new educational policy to bring about a globally accredited cultural homogeneity. The case study comes from teaching erotic poetry at an Indian university, from the joint literary complex of Hindi and Urdu in South Asia, a theme uncomfortably located in national culture not just because of its sexuality but its association with non-national linguistic elements which the article terms ‘Indo-Islamic’. The overlapping of the sexual modern with the Indo-Islamic resurfaces a tension in the nationalized body of literary writing in Hindi/Urdu, the major ‘national’ languages of South Asia. This encounter of erotic poetry in old Hindi and Urdu with globalized sexuality, the article shows, offers a chance to reflect on how literary studies are being reshaped by the assumptions of a monolingual, monocultural global sexuality in our nationalist times.

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Gender politics and the Urdu ghazal: Exploratory observations on Rekhta versus Rekhti

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Lesbian History: A Challenge to Gender Studies

Lesbian History: A Challenge to Gender Studies

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