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The old ghazal, i.e. the poetry of eros in Urdu, Persian and Arabic, has been read as great literature but seldom as a document of history. This book argues that there is one element – the expression of masculine passion (?ishq) for a masculine object – that has shaped the ghazal historically and across languages. The neglect of this element, which it terms lyric queerness, in mainstream cultural history and even LGBTQ studies, screens from us a lyrical corpus that was historically aware, vernacularizing, and suspicious of other-worldly interpretations and is represented here by the ghazal of the Indian subcontinent.
 

About the Author

Shad Naved is a comparatist and translator at Dr B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi. He has published on the lyric, its multilingual tendencies and its teaching in classrooms today.
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The Ghazal Eros Lyric Queerness In History

The Ghazal Eros Lyric Queerness In History

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  • ISBN: 9788196580315
  • Author: Shad Naved
  • Publisher: Tulika
  • Pages: 196
  • Format: Hardback
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The old ghazal, i.e. the poetry of eros in Urdu, Persian and Arabic, has been read as great literature but seldom as a document of history. This book argues that there is one element – the expression of masculine passion (?ishq) for a masculine object – that has shaped the ghazal historically and across languages. The neglect of this element, which it terms lyric queerness, in mainstream cultural history and even LGBTQ studies, screens from us a lyrical corpus that was historically aware, vernacularizing, and suspicious of other-worldly interpretations and is represented here by the ghazal of the Indian subcontinent.
 

About the Author

Shad Naved is a comparatist and translator at Dr B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi. He has published on the lyric, its multilingual tendencies and its teaching in classrooms today.

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