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Author | : Nasrin Rahimieh |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815628378 |
Missing Persians serves to articulate in elegant, vibrant prose the disparate and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Nasrin Rahimieh's complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate the links that her five figures have to a stable Persian identity—complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change. Rahimieh delineates the captivating histories of "missing" Persians from the sixteenth century to modern times and defines the arbitrary generic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, and social histories. Balancing their documentary and historical value with creative and fictional elements, she reads them as individual engagements with broader questions of Persian identity at different moments of the nation's history. As modes of self-expression, these texts reveal both remnants of traditional Persian literary forms and new styles adopted through translations and readings in European literature and history. Even as it sheds new light on crucial points in cultural self-definition, Missing Persians offers a fresh look at traditional institutions, the role of women, and Persia's turbulent struggle to enter modernity on its own terms.
Author | : Abbas Milani |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 1244 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0815656173 |
As the 25th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution approached, Abbas Milani realized that very little, if any, attention had been given to the entire prerevolutionary generation. Political upheavals and a tradition of neglecting the history of past regimes have resulted in a cultural memory loss, erasing the contributions of a generation of individuals. Eminent Persians seeks to rectify that loss. Milani’s groundbreaking portrait of modern Iran reveals the country’s rich history through the lives of the men and women who forged it. Consisting of 150 profiles of the most important innovators in Iran between World War II and the Islamic Revolution, the book includes politicians, entrepreneurs, poets, artists, and thinkers who brought Iran into the modern era with brilliant success and sometimes terrible consequences. The biographies and essays weave a richly textured tapestry of lives, ideas, and events that reveals the true story of these decades in the life of a nation. The two volumes are divided into sections on politics, economics, and culture, each accompanied by an introductory essay that places the individual stories in their broader historical context. Drawn from interviews, extensive archival material, and private correspondence, Eminent Persians is a treasure trove of original documents, many appearing in print for the first time. Detailed sketches of personalities and personal foibles offer a compelling and highly readable account of this remarkable period of history on a human scale.
Author | : Edward Delmar Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 936 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Asia |
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Author | : Homa Katouzian |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2007-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134079346 |
Featuring contributions from leading scholars of Iranian studies and / or comparative literature, this edited comprehensive and critical edited collection provides detailed scholarly analysis of Hedayat's life and work using a variety of methodological and conceptual approaches. Hedayat is the author of The Blind Owl, the most famous Persian novel both in Iran and in Europe and America. Many of his short stories are in a critical realist style and are regarded as among some of the best written in twentieth century Iran. But his most original contribution was the use of modernist, more often surrealist, techniques in Persian fiction. Thus, he was not only a great writer, but also the founder of modernism in Persian fiction. Yet both Hedayat’s life and his death came to symbolize much more than leading writers would normally claim. He still towers over modern Persian fiction and will remain a highly controversial figure so long as the clash of the modern and the traditional, the Persian and the European, and the religious and the secular, has not led to a synthesis and a consensus.
Author | : Laetitia Nanquette |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2017-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786731207 |
This book highlights the role of cultural representations and perceptions, such as when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear programme, and when France is portrayed in the Iranian media as a decadent and imperialist country. Here, Laetitia Nanquette examines the functions, processes, and mechanisms of stereotyping and imagining the "other" that have pervaded the literary traditions of France and Iran when writing about each other. She furthermore analyzes Franco-Iranian relations by exploring the literary traditions of this relationship, the ways in which these have affected individual authors, and how they reflect socio-political realities. With themes that feed into popular debates about the nature of Orientalism and Occidentalism, and how the two interact, this book will be vital for researchers of Middle Eastern literature and its relationship with writings from the West, as well as those working on the cultures of the Middle East.
Author | : Naghmeh Sohrabi |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012-05-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199829713 |
Taken for Wonder focuses on nineteenth-century travelogues authored by Iranians in Europe and argues for a methodological shift in the way scholars interpret travel writing.
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Total Pages | : 886 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : American essays |
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Author | : Frances Simpson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Cats |
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Author | : Samuel Graham Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Iran |
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Author | : Frances Mary Richardson Currer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Early printed books |
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