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When sun meets moon : gender, eros, and ecstasy in Urdu poetry

Kugle, Scott Alan, 1969- author

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\"The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice in South Asian Islamic culture. Kugle argues that Sun and Moon expressed through their poetry exceptions to the general rules of heteronormativity and gender inequality common in their patriarchal societies. Their art provides a lens for a more subtle understanding of both the reach and the limitations of gender roles in Islamic and South Asian culture and underscores how the arts of poetry, music, and dance are integral to Islamic religious life. Integrated throughout are Kugle's translations of Urdu and Persian poetry previously unavailable in English\" -- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Subject: Sirāj Aurangābādī, 1712-1763 Criticism and interpretation. / Māh-i Liqā, 1768- Criticism and interpretation. / Urdu poetry 18th century History and criticism. / Urdu poetry 19th century History and criticism. / Love in literature. / Ecstasy in literature.
• ISBN: 9781469628912, 9781469626772

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PK2168.K84 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE