1st Edition
Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction Who Writes Iran?
Introduction 1 From Prison Reports to Prison Literture 2 Literary Rewrites of History 3 Individualistic Literary Spaces Conclusion
Biography
Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami is Professor of Persian language and literature at New York University. His research is focused on the literary characteristics of contemporary Persian fiction and classical Persian poetry. He has authored, translated and co-edited numerous books and articles. Among his book-length publications are Modern Reflections of Classical Traditions in Persian Fiction, and Sohrab’s Wars: Counter Discourses of Contemporary Persian Fiction, which is a translated and edited collection of short stories; the co-edited and co-translated A Feast in the Mirror: A Collections of Short Stories by Iranian Women. He is the founder of The Association for the Study of Persian Literature (www.persian-literature.org)
"It successfully demonstrates how to write a history of literature based on the formation and evolution of literary concepts and devices and not a chronological historiography of literary productions. Literary Subterfuge and Contemporary Persian Fiction: Who Writes Iran? should be on the reading list of all graduate students in Persian and Middle Eastern studies."
M. R. Ghanoonparvar
