World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity

Omid Azadibougar is Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at Hunan Normal University, China. He is the author of The Persian Novel: Ideology, Fiction and Form in the Periphery (2014) and one of the founding editors of the Journal of World Literature.

• Persian Literature, World Literature.- A Life of Writing for His Shadow.- Contested Canonization and Literary Recognition.- Dreaming from the Margins.- Intellectual Journeys.- Textual Strategies: Humor, Translation, and Adaptation.- Research, Folklore, and Oral Culture.- Conclusion: Canonization and Literary Dissemination.