{"product_id":"persian-literature-as-world-literature-9781501354229","title":"Persian Literature as World Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMostafa Abedinifard \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor without Review of Persian Literary Culture and Civilization at the University of British Columbia, Canada.\u003cb\u003eOmid Azadibougar \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at Hunan Normal University, China. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWorld Literature and Hedayat's Poetics of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and \u003ci\u003eThe Persian Novel: Ideology, Fiction and Form in the Periphery\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003cb\u003eAmirhossein Vafa\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Shiraz University, Iran. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRecasting American and Persian Literatures \u003c\/i\u003e(2016).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe power and delight of literature in Persian is known to many readers, worldwide. But how is this magnificent literature related to recent debates on coloniality, nationalism, and world literature? With this collection of studies, we begin to know. The authors' rich scholarship explores both historical and contemporary problems. * Raewyn Connell, University Chair, University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Southern Theory: Social Science and the Global Dynamics of Knowledge (2007) *\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays is excellent because the theoretical and methodological issues they discuss are not just important for rethinking the study of Persian literature, but are highly relevant to the study of any non-Western literature. Anyone interested in literary studies, particularly in comparative and cross-cultural studies, will find a lot in this collection to be stimulating, thought-provoking, and beneficial. Highly recommended! * Zhang Longxi, Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation, City University of Hong Kong, and author of From Comparison to World Literature (2014) *\u003cbr\u003eThe contributors to this volume approach Persian literary criticism with sensitivity and seek to liberate the field from nationalist frameworks that all too often have hindered the study of Persian literature in the west. The essays collected here open our eyes to the diverse ways in which the Persian literary system has influenced other transnational literary systems and how, in turn, it has been shaped by those encounters over the past millennium and more. * Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Associate Professor of Persian Literature, University of Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates Introduction: Decolonizing a Peripheral Literature \u003ci\u003eAmirhossein Vafa (Shiraz University, Iran), \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eOmid Azadibougar (Hunan Normal University, China), and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMostafa Abedinifard (University of British Columbia, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart One. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Worldliness\u003c\/b\u003e 1. The Birth of the German \u003ci\u003eGhazal\u003c\/i\u003e out of the Spirit of World Literature \u003ci\u003eAmir Irani-Tehrani (West Point Military Academy, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Otherworld Literature: Parahuman Pasts in Classical Persian Historiography and Epic \u003ci\u003eSam Lasman (University of Chicago, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Globalization in Pre- and Postrevolutionary Iranian Literature: A Comparative Study of Authors inside and outside Iran \u003ci\u003eNaghmeh Esmaeilpour (Humboldt University, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e  4. Contemporary Persian Literature and Digital Humanities \u003ci\u003eLaetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Two. Traveling Texts\u003c\/b\u003e 5. Genres without Borders: Reading Modern Iranian Literature beyond \"Center\" and \"Periphery\" \u003ci\u003eMarie Ostby (Connecticut College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Persian Epistemes in Naim Frashëri's Albanian Poetry \u003ci\u003eAbdulla Rexhepi (University of Prishtina, Kosovo)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Ecumenism and Globalism in the Reception of Ferdowsi and His \u003ci\u003eShahnameh\u003c\/i\u003e: Evidence from the \"Baysonqori Preface\" \u003ci\u003eOlga M. Davidson (Boston University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Cats and Dogs, Manliness, and Misogyny: On the \u003ci\u003eSindbad-nameh\u003c\/i\u003e as World Literature \u003ci\u003eAlexandra Hoffmann (University of Chicago, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Cinema Joins Forces with Literature to Form Canon: The Cinematic Afterlife of Sa'edi’s \"The Cow\" as World Literature \u003ci\u003eAdineh Khojastehpour (University of New South Wales, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Three. The Transnational Turn \u003c\/b\u003e 10. Until a Shirt Blossoms Red: Proto-Third Worldism in Ahmad Shamlou’s \u003ci\u003eManifesto\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLevi Thompson (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  11. Translocal Dreams of Justice and Mobility: Fariba Vafi’s \u003ci\u003eTarlan\u003c\/i\u003e and Ali Mirdrekvandi’s \u003ci\u003eNo Heaven for Gunga Din\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGay Jennifer Breyley (Monash University, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. The Purloined \u003ci\u003eLetter\u003c\/i\u003e: Reconsidering Simin Daneshvar’s \u003ci\u003eDagh-e Nang\u003c\/i\u003e and the Politics of Translation in the Landscape of World Literature \u003ci\u003eAmy Motlagh (University of California Davis, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 13. World Literature as Persian Literature \u003ci\u003eNavid Naderi (Independent Scholar, Iran)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084975305047,"sku":"9781501354229","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501354229.jpg?v=1762207786","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/persian-literature-as-world-literature-9781501354229","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}