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A revolution in rhyme : poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic / Fatemeh Shams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shams, Fatemeh, 1983- author.
- Series:
- Oxford oriental monographs.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford oriental monographs
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Persian poetry--Political aspects.
- Persian poetry.
- Persian poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Persian poetry--21st century--History and criticism.
- Politics in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (388 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 'A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic' offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran. Through a compelling chronological and thematic framework, Shams presents fresh insights into the emerging lexicon of coercion and unrest in the modern Persian canon. Analysis of the lives and work of ten key poets traces the evolution of the Islamic Republic, from the 1979 Revolution, through to the Iran-Iraq War, the death of a leader and the rise of internal conflicts.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration and Translation
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Other Rules
- Introduction: "Awakening the Nation": Poetry and Power in Modern Iran
- The Origins of Poetry and Patronage in Iran
- The Label of "Official Literature": Advantages and Limitations
- The Question of Literary Merit
- Existing Scholarship and Its Limitations
- Mapping Poetic Continuity and Rupture: A Conceptual Framework
- The Structure of the Book
- Poetry and the 1979 Revolution
- Chapter 1: Rethinking the Islamic Republican Canon
- Two Generations, Ten Poets
- The First Generation
- Second Generation
- Unravelling the Ethics of a Canon
- Chapter 2: "Surgery of the Soul": Introducing the Howzeh
- The Beginnings of Cultural Control
- The Birth of the Howzeh
- Co-option into the State Ideological Apparatus
- Following the Rival's Fashion
- A Jostle for Control and the Removal of Thought
- The Absence of Creative Integrity
- A Sinister Side to State Control
- One Voice, Many Writers
- The Upswing in Official Poetry
- Chapter 3: Returning to the Roots: The Dark and Light of the Village
- The Political Motive for Nostalgia
- Defining the Village
- Politicizing the Village
- The Role of the Rural Revolutionary
- The "Official" Village: The "Gaze that Tastes of Milk"
- "Machine-Made Bread"
- "Simple, Like a Village": The Rise of a Rustic Utopia
- From Noble Peasant to Migrant Margin-Dweller
- The Fading Village
- Reviving the Village
- The Danger of Collective Greenwashing
- Chapter 4: A War to Remember (1): Decoding the Poetic Violence of War
- Origins of "Devotional" Combative Poetics
- Devotional Militant Poetic Forms
- Origins of the Mystic-Combative Poetics
- The Mystification of Death
- In Search of a Different Cure
- Chapter 5: A War to Remember (2): The Other Face of War
- Writing in the Warzone
- Writing in the War-Scarred Streets
- Writing in a Wounded Alphabet
- Writing against a Common Enemy
- Writing for the Children of War
- Writing the Real Message of War
- Chapter 6: Loss and Nostalgia: Official Poetry in Post-War Chaos
- The Devastation of War, the Balm of Nostalgia
- The Loss of the State Patriarch
- The Loss of Utopia and the Rise of Protest Poetry
- The Rise of the Reform Movement: Re-envisioning the Self, Religion, and Ideology
- Chapter 7: Inventing a Courtly Tradition: Poetry and Power in Khamenei's Islamic Republic
- Passing the Poetry Baton
- From Bookworm to the Ruling Ayatollah
- The Search for Political Legitimacy: Poetry as a New Form of Political Covenant
- Instating a New Courtly Poetic Tradition
- Annual Poetry Ceremonies and the Poetics of Conversion
- Official Poets and the Question of Social Mobility
- Characteristics of Official Verse
- Searching the Past to Rule the Present
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 11, 2021).
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-260249-7
- 0-19-189092-8
- 0-19-260248-9
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