Burying the beloved : marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran / Amy Motlagh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Motlagh, Amy, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Persian fiction.

Persian literature--Social aspects--Iran.

Persian literature.

Literature and society--Iran--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Law and literature--Iran--History--20th century.

Law and literature.

Realism in literature.

Marriage in literature.

Women in literature.

Women's rights--Iran.

Women's rights.

Women--Iran--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernity regarding women's rights and social status. The book reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism to challenge and re-imagine notions of "the real." It examines seminal works that foreground acute anxieties about female subjectivity in an Iran negotiating its modernity from the Constitutional Revolution of 1905 up to and beyond the Islamic Revolution of 1979. By focusing on marriage as the central metaphor through which both law and fiction read gender, Motlagh critically engages and highlights the difficulties that arise as gender norms and laws change over time. She examines the recurrent foregrounding of marriage at five critical periods of legal reform, documenting how texts were understood both at first publication and as their importance changed over time.

Contents:

Introduction : burying the past : Iranian modernity's marriage to realism

Dismembering and re-membering the beloved : how the Civil Code remade marriage and marriage remade love

Wedding or funeral? : the Family Protection Act and the bride's consent

Ain't I a woman? : domesticity's other

Exhuming the beloved, revising the past : lawlessness and postmodernism

A metaphor for civil society? : marriage and "rights talk" in the Khtamī period

Conclusion : a severed head? : Iranian literary modernity in transnational context.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780804778183

0804778183

OCLC:

767498718