![]() ![]() As Rukhsana Ahmad points out in her introduction to Beyond Belief (the first collection of feminist poetry published in Pakistan), ‘(t)he bulk of published Urdu poetry is still love poetry bound in the old traditional idioms and conceits’ 84. ![]() Women feature mostly as an abstraction and as the object of the male protagonist’s desire 83. Second, the predominant themes and metaphors of this genre assume the poet-as-male (and consequently the reader-as-male) and revolve around the themes of the beauty of the beloved, the plight of the lover and the pains of unrequited love. First, most of the poets are men virtuosity in verse is still considered to be a male purview and women poets, even well-known ones, continue to be marginalised. ![]() New standard-bearers of progressive Urdu poetry: The feminist poetsĪnyone who is familiar with the field of Urdu poetry will readily recognise and acknowledge that it is extremely gendered. ![]()
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