Imagine a Nation

Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland

AvHamid Dabashi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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From Ferdowsi to Rumi and Hafiz, poetry has played a central role in the historical Iranian cultural imagination. How have contemporary poets contributed to this imagining of a nation, in the context of the twentieth century and its momentous events?In this book, Hamid Dabashi interrogates the oeuvre of six major poets: Nima Yushij (1895-1960), Mehdi Akhavan-e Sales (1929-1990), Ahmad Shamlou (1925-2000) Forough Farrokhzad (1934-1967), Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) and finally Esmail Khoi (1938-2021). Reading their works in the context of Iranian political history, from the Constitutional Revolution to the Iranian Revolution and beyond, he interprets their poetry as exercises in imagining an Iran that was still emerging and being contested. Providing an original theoretical and critical interpretation of modern Iran’s most well-known poets, based on his own translations from the Persian originals, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Persian literature and Iranian studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-27
Mått:164 x 236 x 22 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780755655632

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Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, USA. He is the author of over 25 books and focuses on the social and intellectual history of Iran and Islam, both classical and contemporary. Among his most recent books are Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad (2019), The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (2021), and An Iranian Childhood: Rethinking History and Memory (2023). He is a prominent commentator on global affairs, writing regularly for Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and other news outlets.

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Hamid Dabashi’s Imagine a Nation: Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland is a much-needed tour de force, which breathes life into the greatest poets of twentieth-century Iran with a vision that is both authentic and compelling. It offers the best of both worlds of analysis and translation. One hopes that Dabashi’s rare combination of theoretical sophistication and exquisite translation skills, which are demonstrated in this study of a poetic movement that has been underestimated for too long, will inspire a new generation of scholars to unshackle themselves from Orientalist lenses on their own poetic heritage.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Imagine a Nation Chapter One Nima Yushij: The Archetypal Event Chapter Two Mehdi Akhavan-e Sales: Remembrance of Things Past Chapter Three Ahmad Shamlou: The Troubadour of a Homeland to ComeChapter Four Forough Farrokhzad: The Poetics of the PresentChapter Five Sohrab Sepehri: A Metapoetic of PresenceChapter Six Esmail Kho’i: The Voice from NowherevilleConclusion Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland