Persian literature as world literature

Author(s)

• Abedinifard, Mostafa
• Azadibougar, Omid
• Vafa, Amirhossein

Bibliographic Information

Persian literature as world literature

edited by Mostafa Abedinifard, Omid Azadibougar, and Amirhossein Vafa

（Literatures as world literature）

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

• : HB

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature-as transnational, worldly texts that expand beyond local and national penchants. Working through an idea of world literature that is both cosmopolitan and critical of any monologic view on globalization, the contributors to this volume revisit the early and contemporary circulation of Persianate literatures across neighboring and distant cultures, and seek innovative ways of developing a transnational Persian literary studies, engaging in constructive dialogues with the global forces surrounding, and shaping, Persianate societies and cultures.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates Introduction: Decolonizing a Peripheral Literature Amirhossein Vafa (Shiraz University, Iran), Omid Azadibougar (Hunan Normal University, China), and Mostafa Abedinifard (University of British Columbia, Canada) Part One. Literary Worldliness 1. The Birth of the German Ghazal out of the Spirit of World Literature Amir Irani-Tehrani (West Point Military Academy, USA) 2. Otherworld Literature: Parahuman Pasts in Classical Persian Historiography and Epic Sam Lasman (University of Chicago, USA) 3. Globalization in Pre- and Postrevolutionary 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 Two. Traveling Texts 5. Genres without Borders: Reading Modern Iranian Literature beyond "Center" and "Periphery" Marie Ostby (Connecticut College, USA) 6. Persian Epistemes in Naim Frasheri's Albanian Poetry Abdulla Rexhepi (University of Prishtina, 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 Three. The Transnational Turn 10. Until a Shirt Blossoms Red: Proto-Third Worldism in Ahmad Shamlou'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 (University of California Davis, USA) 13. World Literature as Persian Literature Navid Naderi (Independent Scholar, Iran) Notes on Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BC13433177
• ISBN:
  • 9781501354229
• LCCN: 2021006720
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 258 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PK6406
  • DC23 : 891/.5509
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Persian literature -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Persian literature -- Appreciation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB23475733