Persian literature as world literature / edited by Mostafa Abedinifard, Omid Azadibougar, and Amirhossein Vafa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Abedinifard, Mostafa, editor.

Azadibougar, Omid, editor.

Vafa, Amirhossein, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Literatures as world literature

Literatures as world literature.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persian literature--History and criticism.

Persian literature.

Persian literature--Appreciation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Decolonizing a Peripheral Literature / Mostafa Abedinifard (University of British Columbia, Canada), Omid Azadibougar (Hunan Normal University, China), and Amirhossein Vafa (Shiraz University, Iran) Part I. Literary Worldliness

1. The Birth of the German Ghazal out of the Spirit of World Literature / Amir Irani-Tehrani (Westpoint Academy, USA)

2. Otherworld Literature: Parahuman Pasts in Classical Persian Historiography and Epic / Sam Lasman (University of Chicago, USA)

3. Globalization in Pre- and Post-revolutionary Iranian Literature: A Comparative Study of Authors Inside and Outside Iran / Naghmeh Esmaeilpour (Humboldt University, Germany)

4. Contemporary Persian Literature and Digital Humanities / Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Part II. Travelling Texts

5. Genres without Borders: Readings of Modern Iranian Literature beyond Center and Periphery / Marie Ostby (Connecticut College, USA)

6. Persian Epistemes in Naim Frashr͡i's Albanian Poetry Abdulla Rexhepi (Prishtina University, Kosovo)

7. Ecumenism and Globalism in the Reception of Ferdowsi and His Shahnameh : Evidence from the "Baysonqori Preface" / Olga M. Davidson (Boston University, USA)

8. Cats and Dogs, Manliness and Misogyny: On the Sindbad-Nameh as World Literature / Alexandra Hoffmann (University of Chicago, USA)

9. Cinema Joins Forces with Literature to Form Canon: The Cinematic Afterlife of Sa'edi's "The Cow" as World Literature / Adineh Khojastehpour (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Part III. The Transnational Turn

10. Until a Shirt Blossoms Red: Proto-Third Worldism in Ahmad Shamlu's Manifesto / Levi Thompson (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

11. Translocal Dreams of Justice and Mobility: Fariba Vafi's Tarlan and Ali Mirdrekvandi's No Heaven for Gunga Din Gay / Jennifer Breyley (Monash University, Australia)

12. The Purloined Letter : Reconsidering Simin Daneshvar's Dagh-e Nang and the Politics of Translation in the Landscape of World Literature / Amy Motlagh (UC Davis, USA)

13. World Literature as Persian Literature / Navid Naderi (Independent Scholar, Iran)

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: Persian literature as world literature

ISBN:

9781501354212

1501354213

9781501354236

150135423X

9781501354205

1501354205

Publisher Number:

99988587324

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