Modern Iranian Women’s Literature

Writing across Borders and Genres

AvNasrin Rahimieh,Laetitia Nanquette

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Offering analyses of women’s literary production in Iran as well as the Iranian diaspora, this book moves beyond the examination of writing as an act of resistance and explores what women writers have contributed to Iranian literature globally. While Iranian women’s literature dates to the early modern period, it became more visible in the twentieth century. In the wake of the 1979 revolution, Iranian women’s literature flourished despite restrictions imposed upon women’s literary voices by a theocratic regime and a male-dominated field of production. The mass migrations after the revolution also gave rise to a sizeable community of Iranian women writers in diaspora, who like their counterparts in Iran, continue to explore new genres, forms of expression, and aesthetics.Through analysis of the work of many modern and contemporary writers, this book highlights the innovative ways in which women writers in Iran and in the diaspora have engaged with social and cultural restrictions and have contributed to the creation of new literary idioms and forms.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-26
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350466517

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Nima Naghibi is Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Laetitia Nanquette is Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.Marie Ostby is Associate Professor of English and global Islamic studies at Connecticut College, USA, where she teaches postcolonial and world literature. Nasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities at University of California, Irvine, USA.

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IntroductionPart 1: Gendered Inflections of Poetic Norms1. Male beloved in Jahan-Malek Khatun’s ghazals, Zhinia Noorian, (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)2. Centering Motherhood, Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)3. Persian Qasida, Revolution, and Gender Justice, Fatemeh Shams (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Part 2: Navigating New Realities: The Complex Terrain of Post-Revolution Plays and Novels4. Civic Stages, Nahid Ahmadian (University of Maryland, USA)5. Rebels with a Cause, M. R. Ghanoonparvar (University of Texas at Austin, USA)6. “What Should I Make for Lunch?” Belqeys Soleimani on Being Pre-Modern in Post-Revolution Iran, Nasrin Rahimieh (University of California Irvine, USA)Part 3: Conditions of Production in Iran and Lures of Exoticization Abroad7. Women Publishers in Post-Revolutionary Iran, Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales, Australia)8. The Contours of Global Mainstream Fiction, Samad Alavi (University of Oslo, Norway)Part 4: Embracing and Defying Gender Norms9. A Queer Sort of Normativity, Mariam Rahmani (Bennington College, USA)10. Queering Gender/Queering Genre on the B-Side of Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental, Marie Ostby (Connecticut College, USA)11. Menstruation in Nilofar Shidmehr’s “Sakeen”, Nima Naghibi (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)Part 5: Healing Fractured Selves12. The Blessing of Ordinary Objects, Sahar Maziar (Independent Scholar, Germany)13. Writing Recovery, Goulia Ghardashkhani (University of Bamberg, Germany)14. Looking for the History of Modern Slavery in Iran in Memoirs by Contemporary Women Writers, Amy Motlagh (University of California, Davis, USA)15. Literary Mirror Mosaics in the Work of Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Farzaneh Milani (University of Virginia, USA)