Iran: The Rebirth of a Nation

by Hamid Dabashi

Book Overview

In this unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi provides a provocative account of Iran in its current resurrection as a mighty regional power. Through a careful study of contemporary Iranian history in its political, literary, and artistic dimensions, Dabashi decouples the idea of Iran from its colonial linkage to the clich? notion of "the nation-state," and then demonstrates how an "aesthetic intuition of transcendence" has enabled it to be re-conceived...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137592400
• ISBN13: 9781137592408
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.7"