Savushun
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Savushun
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Author : Sīmīn Dānishvar
language : en
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Mage Publishers
Release Date : 1990
Savushun written by Sīmīn Dānishvar and has been published by Washington, D.C. : Mage Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Fiction categories.
'A very engaging saga...'Washington Post Book World?A powerfully resonant work...'Publishers Weekly?Outstanding foreign fiction...'USA TodaySavushun (pronounced ?sa-voo-shoon?) is a folk tradition, surviving in Southern Iran from an undateable pre-islamic past, that conjures hope in spite of everything.The novel chronicles the life of a Persian family during the World War II Allied occupation of Iran. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes images of Persepolis and pre-islamic monuments, the great Persian poets, the shrines, sufis and nomadic tribes all within a historical web of the interests, privilege and influence of foreign powers, corruption, incompetence and arrogance of persons in authority. The story is seen through the eyes of Zari, a young wife, and mother, who copes with her idealistic husband while struggling with her desire for traditional family life and her need for an individual identity.simin daneshvar lives and continues to write in Iran.
Savushun
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Author : Simin Behbahani (also called Simin Daneshvar.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Savushun written by Simin Behbahani (also called Simin Daneshvar.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
A Persian Requiem
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Author : Simin Daneshvar
language : en
Publisher: Halban Publishers
Release Date : 2012-06-04
A Persian Requiem written by Simin Daneshvar and has been published by Halban Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-04 with Fiction categories.
Tribal leaders in opposition to the government, the corruption of occupation, society torn apart by shifting political loyalties... this is the background to one woman's powerful story. A Persian Requiem is a powerful and evocative novel. Set in the southern Persian town of Shiraz in the last years of World War II, when the British army occupied the south of Persia, the novel chronicles the life of Zari, a traditional, anxious and superstitious woman whose husband, sef, is an idealistic feudal landlord. The occupying army upsets the balance of traditional life and throws the local people into conflict. sef is anxious to protect those who depend upon him and will stop at nothing to do so. His brother, on the other hand, thinks nothing of exploiting his kinsmen to further his own political ambitions. Thus a web of political intrigue and hostilities is created, which slowly destroys families. In the background, tribal leaders are in open rebellion against the government, and a picture of a society torn apart by unrest emerges. In the midst of this turbulence, normal life carries on in the beautiful courtyard of Zari's house, in the rituals she imposes upon herself and in her attempt to keep the family safe from external events. But the corruption engendered by occupation is pervasive - some try to profit as much as possible from it, others look towards communism for hope, whilst yet others resort to opium. Finally even Zari's attempts to maintain normal family life are shattered as disaster strikes. An immensely moving story, A Persian Requiem is also a powerful indictment of the corrupting effects of colonization. A Persian Requiem (first published in 1969 in Iran under the title Savushun), was the first novel written by an Iranian woman and, sixteen reprints and half a million copies later, it remains the most widely read Persian novel. In Iran it has helped shape the ideas and attitudes of a generation in its revelation of the factors that contributed to the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Simin Daneshvar's A Persian Requiem ... goes a long way towards deepening our understanding of Islam and the events leading up to the 1979 Revolution ... The central characters adroitly reflect different Persian attitudes of the time, attitudes that were eventually to harden into support for either the Ayatollah and his Islamic fundamentalism or, alternatively, for the corrupting Westernisation of the Shah. The value of the book lies in its ability to present these emergent struggles in human terms, in the day-to-day realities of small-town life ... Complex and delicately crafted, this subtle and ironic book unites reader and writer in the knowledge that human weakness, fanaticism, love and terror are not confined to any one creed. The Financial Times A Persian Requiem is not just a great Iranian novel, but a world classic. The Independent on Sunday ... it would be no exaggeration to say that all of Iranian life is there. Spare Rib For an English reader, there is almost an embarrassment of new settings, themes and ideas ... Under the guise of something resembling a family saga - although the period covered is only a few months - A Persian Requiem teaches many lessons about a society little understood in the West. Rachel Billington, The Tablet This very human novel avoids ideological cant while revealing complex political insights, particularly in light of the 1979 Iranian revolution. Publishers Weekly A Persian Requiem, originally published [in Iran] in 1969, was a first novel by Iran's first woman novelist. It has seen sixteen reprints, sold over half a million copies, and achieved the status of a classic, literally shaping the ideas of a generation. Yet when asked about the specific appeal of the novel, most readers are at a loss to pinpoint a single, or even prominent aspect to account for this phenomenal success. Is it the uniquely feminine perspective, allowing the read
The Subaltern In Simin Daneshvar S Savushun And Sutra And Other Stories
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Author : Roya Khoshnevissansari
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Subaltern In Simin Daneshvar S Savushun And Sutra And Other Stories written by Roya Khoshnevissansari and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with English fiction categories.
The Politics Of Writing In Iran
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Author : Kamran Talattof
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2000-05-01
The Politics Of Writing In Iran written by Kamran Talattof 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 2000-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Emerging in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a secular activity, Persian literature acquired its own modernity by redefining past aesthetic practices of identity and history. By analyzing selected work of major pre- and post-revolutionary literary figures, Talattof shows how Persian literary history has not been an integrated continuum but a series of distinct episodic movements shaped by shifting ideologies. Drawing on western concepts, modern Persian literature has responded to changing social and political conditions through complex strategies of metaphorical and allegorical representations that both construct and denounce cultural continuities. The book provides a unique contribution in that it draws on texts that demonstrate close affinity to such diverse ideologies as modernism, Marxism, feminism, and Islam. Each ideological standard has influenced the form, characterization, and figurative language of literary texts as well as setting the criteria for literary criticism and determining which issues are to be the focus of literary journals.
A Persian Requiem
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Author : Sīmīn Dānishvar
language : en
Publisher: Halban Publishers
Release Date : 2002
A Persian Requiem written by Sīmīn Dānishvar and has been published by Halban Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Families categories.
Set in the southern Persian town of Shiraz in the last years of World War II with the British army in occupation, the novel chronicles the life of Zari, a traditional, anxious, and superstitious woman whose husband, Yusef is an idealistic feudal landlord. A web of political intrigue and hostility is created. In the background, tribal leaders are in open rebellion against the government and British occupation. In the midst of this turbulence Zari carries on normal life within the beautiful courtyard of her house, attempting to keep the family safe from external events. The corruption engendered by occupation is pervasive as Zari's family life is shattered and disaster strikes. An immensely moving story, the novel is a powerful indictment of colonization."
Persian Language Literature And Culture
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Author : Kamran Talattof
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-03-05
Persian Language Literature And Culture written by Kamran Talattof and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Critical approaches to the study of topics related to Persian literature and Iranian culture have evolved in recent decades. The essays included in this volume collectively demonstrate the most recent creative approaches to the study of the Persian language, literature, and culture, and the way these methodologies have progressed academic debate. Topics covered include; culture, cognition, history, the social context of literary criticism, the problematics of literary modernity, and the issues of writing literary history. More specifically, authors explore the nuances of these topics; literature and life, poetry and nature, culture and literature, women and literature, freedom of literature, Persian language, power, and censorship, and issues related to translation and translating Persian literature in particular. In dealing with these seminal subjects, contributors acknowledge and contemplate the works of Ahmad Karimi Hakkak and other pioneering critics, analysing how these works have influenced the field of literary and cultural studies. Contributing a variety of theoretical and inter-disciplinary approaches to this field of study, this book is a valuable addition to the study of Persian poetry and prose, and to literary criticism more broadly.
Sutra Other Stories
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Author : Sīmīn Dānishvar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Sutra Other Stories written by Sīmīn Dānishvar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
Six stories by an Iranian novelist. The title piece is on a smuggler who forces his wife and daughter into prostitution, Potshard is about a white woman who tries to adopt a village orphan, and Anis is on how a woman adjusts to new husbands. By the author of Savushun.
Close Up
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Author : Hamid Dabashi
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 2001
Close Up written by Hamid Dabashi and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Performing Arts categories.
Abbas Kiarostami planted Iran firmly on the map of world cinema when he won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival for his film A Taste of Cherry in 1997. In this book Hamid Dabashi examines the growing reputation of Iranian cinema from its origins in the films of Kimiyai and Mehrjui, through the work of established directors such as Kiarostami, Beyzai and Bani-Etemad, to young filmmakers like Samira Makhmalbaf and Bahman Qobadi, who triumphed at the Cannes 2000 festival. Dabashi combines exclusive interviews with directors, detailed and insightful commentary, critical cultural context, an extensive filmography, and generous illustration to provide an indispensable guide to a globally celebrated but little-studied cinematic genre. Book jacket.
Veils And Words
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Author : Farzaneh Milani
language : en
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Release Date : 1992
Veils And Words written by Farzaneh Milani and has been published by I.B.Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first book in any language about the writing of women in Iran. For centuries any sense that there could be a literary tradition among women was suppressed. Since the middle of the 19th century, however, a number a of pioneering women have defied the traditional order to produce poetry and novels of the highest quality; but many of them have paid for their courage with accusations of immorality, promiscuity, heresy and even lunacy.