The Politics of Writing in Iran: A History of Modern Persian Literature

by Kamran Talattof

Book Overview

Emerging in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a secular activity, Persian literature acquired its own modernity by redefining past aesthetic practices of identity and history. By analyzing selected work of major pre- and post-revolutionary literary figures, Talattof shows how Persian literary history has not been an integrated continuum but a series of distinct episodic movements shaped by shifting ideologies. Drawing on western concepts,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815628196
• ISBN13: 9780815628194
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"