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Afsaneh
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Author : Kaveh Basmenji
language : en
Publisher: Saqi
Release Date : 2013-11-15
Afsaneh written by Kaveh Basmenji and has been published by Saqi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-15 with Fiction categories.
Whether negotiating often-treacherous paths through political and religious upheavals or threading their way through dreams and fantasies, the characters in these stories are vivid and compelling enough to challenge and surprise anyone unfamiliar with Iranian life and literature. From the oppressive atmosphere before the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Simin Daneshvar's Whom Shall I Greet? to Shahrnoosh Parsipour's mesmerising story of women who blur distinctions between reality and dreams in Crystal Pendants, these tales brim with the inner lives, attitudes and outlooks of women in Iran. 'There is great talent in these stories as well as great courage.' -- Elaine Showalter, Literary Review
Afsaneh A Novel From Iran
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Author : Moniru Ravanipur
language : en
Publisher: Ibex Publishers
Release Date : 2013-11-14
Afsaneh A Novel From Iran written by Moniru Ravanipur and has been published by Ibex Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The truth always loses itself among memories. The truth can be lost as though it never existed. Not on the ground or anywhere else. The difference between a historical event and an insignificant happening in the life of an individual is that the historical event has witnesses who can differentiate the truth from the fiction. One evening, thirty year old Afsaneh Sarboland, dressed only in a thin orange dress, flees her husband and home and attempts to create a new life. In the story, Afsaneh, a single writer, struggles to carve a space for herself in the chaotic society that has been ravaged by the scars of war. Childhood tragedies, the devastations of war, and an abusive husband have combined to drive her to madness. Tainted by the shame of being alone in that night that she cannot remember, she begins to unravel, mixing the present with memories of the past. Afsaneh is based on the author’s life as a nurse on the graveyard shift in the early eighties and her experiences on the front during the Iran-Iraq war. Magical realism and the bitter realities of contemporary Iran are intertwined. Ravanipur pushes the boundaries of temporal space, disrupting the notion of traditional textual layouts.
Afsaneh Short Stories By Iranian Women
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Author : Kaveh Basmenji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Afsaneh Short Stories By Iranian Women written by Kaveh Basmenji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Short stories, Persian categories.
Part of a series showcasing contemporary women writers from around the world.Whether negotiating often-treacherous paths through political and religious upheavals or threading their way through dreams and fantasies, the characters in these stories are vivid and compelling enough to challenge and surprise anyone unfamiliar with Iranian life and literature.Simin Daneshvar, perhaps the most renowned Iranian woman writer of all time, has as a recurring theme in her stories the oppressive atmosphere prevailing in Iran during the last two decades before the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Goli Taraqqi's stories are populated with sick, desperate people who lead lonely lives suffused with fear. The Shemiran Bus and A House in Heaven are virtuoso works of hers, and probably two of the best examples of contemporary prose in Iran. In the words of one critic: 'If Taraqqi had not written anything but these stories, she would still be regarded as first-rate amongst Iranian writers.' Others include Shahrnoosh Parsipour, Moniroo Ravanipour, Mahshid Amirshahi, Fereshteh Sari, and Fereshteh Molavi. These tales brim with the inner lives, attitudes and outlooks of women in Iran.
Essays On Nima Yushij
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Author : Aḥmad Karīmī Ḥakkāk
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2004
Essays On Nima Yushij written by Aḥmad Karīmī Ḥakkāk and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Situating Nima's life firmly within the context of 20th century Iranian history this book contributes to an emerging trend in literary scholarship on Persian literature that views Persian poetry as a living and constantly evolving tradition rather than an icon of some fading glory.
Women S Autobiographies In Contemporary Iran
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Author : Afsaneh Najmabadi
language : en
Publisher: Harvard CMES
Release Date : 1990
Women S Autobiographies In Contemporary Iran written by Afsaneh Najmabadi and has been published by Harvard CMES this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The four essays in this volume discuss the autobiographical writings of Iranian women. The contributors to the collection include William Hanaway, Michael Hillmann, and Farzaneh Milani. Milani asks why modern Persian literature, with its rich self-reflective tradition, has not produced many autobiographies, and what particular problems confront Iranian women engaging in autobiographical writing. Najmabadi discusses one of the earliest modern autobiographical writings by a woman, Taj os-Saltaneh’s Memories, and Hillman projects Forugh Farrokhzad’s poetry as an autobiographical voice. Hanaway investigates the possibilities of going beyond lack of Western-style autobiographical form and looking for what Persian literary forms and categories provide for the autobiographical voice.
The Sunshine Years
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Author : Afsaneh Knight
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-01-31
The Sunshine Years written by Afsaneh Knight and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-31 with Fiction categories.
Do you ever wonder where your life is going? You are not alone. Story (that’s his name) can feel a middle-youth crisis coming on. He’s got a great job, a great flat and great mates: Mac, who is obsessed with biscuits; JP, who never says anything if it’s nice; Cannie, whose only admirer is the bird that lives outside her window; and Vincent, who has finally proposed to his girlfriend after nineteen years. But alongside the drinks and the kicks, what has any of them actually done? And why is time passing like sand in a sieve? Is it possible to turn life around? Life is just life, right? And change is a gasping and slippery fish. . .
Familial Undercurrents
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Author : Afsaneh Najmabadi
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-04
Familial Undercurrents written by Afsaneh Najmabadi and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-04 with History categories.
Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about. In Familial Undercurrents, Najmabadi uncovers her family’s complex experiences of polygamous marriage to tell a larger story of the transformations of notions of love, marriage, and family life in mid-twentieth-century Iran. She traces how the idea of “marrying for love” and the desire for companionate, monogamous marriage acquired dominance in Tehran’s emerging urban middle class. Considering the role played in that process by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century romance novels, reformist newspapers, plays, and other literature, Najmabadi outlines the rituals and objects---such as wedding outfits, letter writing, and family portraits---that came to characterize the ideal companionate marriage. She reveals how in the course of one generation men’s polygamy had evolved from an acceptable open practice to a taboo best kept secret. At the same time, she chronicles the urban transformations of Tehran and how its architecture and neighborhood social networks both influenced and became emblematic of the myriad forms of modern Iranian family life.
The Story Of The Daughters Of Quchan
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Author : Afsaneh Najmabadi
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1998-12-01
The Story Of The Daughters Of Quchan written by Afsaneh Najmabadi and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-01 with Social Science categories.
In 1905, the year preceding the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, Iranian women and girls were sold by needy peasants to pay their taxes, or taken as booty in a raid by Turkoman tribesmen against a village settlement in Northeast Iran. The telling and retelling of the event became a focus for outage and grievance, contributing to both popular mobilizations against autocracy and a constitutional regime. Indeed, the narration of this event took all of Iran by storm. Shortly after the opening of a new parliament in 1906, relatives of some of the captive women demanded that the parliament punish those responsible. The newly reconstituted Ministry of Justice investigated the matter and actually tried several people who were alleged to be responsible. In The Story of the Daughters of Quchan, Afsaneh Najambodi investigates what made this incident more powerful. How did a familiar incident of rural destitution and the story of yet another Turkoman raid became a uniquely outrageous story? Although it captured the Iranian national imagination, this event has been all but forgotten. What does this "amnesia" tell us about the political culture or modern Iran, as well as that country's national memory, and about modernist historiography, as well as that country's national memory, and about modernist historiography in general?
Slaughterhouse Heart
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Author : Afsaneh Knight
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-02-29
Slaughterhouse Heart written by Afsaneh Knight and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-29 with Fiction categories.
What makes a father violent? It takes a brave man to find out . . . As a volunteer at St Margaret's Hospice, eager and helpful Meryl is looking for a role in life. The arrival of Jamie, the son of a patient, may be just what she is after. He is good-looking, young and, above all, troubled. Jamie's father has only a few days to live, but between father and son is a lifetime of misunderstanding and unhappiness. Could the most powerful legacy Jamie faces be an inability to love? With well-meaning Meryl hovering in the background, Jamie embarks on his long dark night of the soul, facing the secrets, lies and heartbreaks behind his father's life. Meanwhile his dying father, seemingly unconscious to it all, relives his extraordinary history, from the triumphs of his life as a boxer, to the onset of a crippling illness he doesn't understand. And in the quiet of the night, he receives strange visitors of his own....
Women With Mustaches And Men Without Beards
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Author : Afsaneh Najmabadi
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2005-04-25
Women With Mustaches And Men Without Beards written by Afsaneh Najmabadi and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-25 with Social Science categories.
Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture and politics in Iran and of how changes in ideas about gender and sexuality affected conceptions of beauty, love, homeland, marriage, education, and citizenship. She concludes with a provocative discussion of Iranian feminism and its role in that country's current culture wars. In addition to providing an important new perspective on Iranian history, Najmabadi skillfully demonstrates how using gender as an analytic category can provide insight into structures of hierarchy and power and thus into the organization of politics and social life.