Rekhti: Impersonating the Feminine in Urdu Poetry

Petievich, Carla

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Interdisciplinary Enqueeries from India

Sherinian

2019

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness

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The goal of this article is to conceive of a cross-cultural queer theory for ethnomusicology that allows for the consideration of the widest diversity and inclusive conceptualization of the relationship of performing arts to human desire, intimate behavior, and identity. It begins from an assumption that Western meanings of “queer” do not match the ways of living and musicking with sex, gender, and sexuality that exist throughout the world. To this end, it presents eight theoretical guidelines to help scholars scrutinize the dominant Western gaze in queer scholarship, while allowing for local phenomena to expand global understanding of not just difference, but of human possibility. These guidelines engage concepts of gender and sexuality, ethnographic methodology, mainstream and marginal cultures, indigenous conceptualizations, intersectionality, and performative identities. It then applies these ideas and guidelines to case studies from South Asia by Jeff Roy (2017), Serena Nanda (1990), and Joyce Flueckiger (1996).

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Interdisciplinary Enqueeries from India

Sherinian

2019

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness

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Femininity, State and Cultural Space in Eighteenth-century India

Dalal

2015

The Medieval History Journal

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Eighteenth-century India is by now historians' cherished kaleidoscope. Of its images she sees is one that shapes into an expansion of the feminine presence in the century's political and cultural space. Symbolised in a greatly enhanced visibility of women, many of whom were rulers-regents and courtesans, this article seeks to articulate that image, the metaphysics of its manifestation and elaboration within the state and cultural sphere by focusing upon the imperial capital, Delhi. It hypothesises a destabilisation of the gender of the state and its masculinity consequent upon the Mughal empire's decline which also enabled indigenous cultural traditions friendlier to the feminine to assert themselves. The femininity that evolved moderated the masculinity of the century's polities which came to be mediated through a more balanced gender template. The greater concord it signified defined societies rich in regional expressiveness that blended with the cosmopolitanism of their cities.

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Rekhti: Impersonating the Feminine in Urdu Poetry

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Femininity, State and Cultural Space in Eighteenth-century India

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