1st Edition

Persian Literature and Modernity Production and Reception

Edited By Hamid Rezaei Yazdi, Arshavez Mozafari Copyright 2019
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Persian Literature and Modernity recasts the history of modern literature in Iran by elucidating the bonds between the classical tradition and modernity and exploring textual, generic and discursive formations through heterodoxical investigations. This is first done through the rehabilitation of concepts embedded in tradition, including the munāzirah (debate), Ahrīman (the demonic),... Read more

1. Introduction Hamid Rezaei Yazdi & Arshavez Mozafari 



PART 1 



2. Rival Texts: Modern Persian Prose Fiction and the Myth of the Founding Father Hamid Rezaei Yazdi 



3. Reactionary Interbellum Literature and the Demonic: ʿAlavī and Hidāyat Arshavez Mozafari 



4. Linguistic Realism and Modernity: The Ontology of the Poetic from Suhrawardī to Sòāʾib Henry M. Bowles 



5. A Predestined Break from the Past: Shiʾr-i Naw, History and Hermeneutics Fateme Montazeri 



PART 2 



6. Intimating Tehran: The Figure of the Prostitute in Iranian Popular Literature, 1920s–1970s Jairan Gahan 



7. Classical Persian Canons of the Revolutionary Press: Abū al-Qāsim Lāhūtī’s Circles in Istanbul and Moscow Samuel Hodgkin 



8. Pneumatics of Blackness: Nāṣir Taqvā’ī’s Bād-i Jin and Modernity’s Anthropological Drive Parisa Vaziri

Biography

Hamid Rezaei Yazdi is an educator and researcher in the field of Middle Eastern studies, with an emphasis on the historiography of modern Iran. He received his PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and is currently a Professor at the Department of Liberal Studies at Humber College.





Arshavez Mozafari is a historian of modern Iran based in Toronto. He received his PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.