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  • Iranian Culture

    Representation and Identity

    by Nasrin Rahimieh ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    Throughout modern Iranian history, culture has served as a means of imposing unity and cohesion onto society. The Pahlavi monarchs used it to project an image of Iran as an ancient civilisation, re-emerging as an equal to Western nations, while the revolutionaries deployed it to remake the country into an Islamic nation. Just as Iranian culture has been continually re-interpreted, the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Modern Iranian Women’s Literature

    Writing across Borders and Genres

    Edited by Nasrin Rahimieh, Laetitia Nanquette, Marie Ostby, Nima Naghibi ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing
    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, ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

    Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry

    Edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Nasrin Rahimieh ...
    The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Four decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, "Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran" brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

    Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry

    Edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Nasrin Rahimieh ...
    The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Five decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Comparative Literature in Canada

    Contemporary Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Publishing in Review

    by Karin Beeler, Stan Beeler, Albert Braz, Dan Browne, Amaryll Chanady, Lai-Tze Fan, Don Gamble, Doris Hambuch, Nataleah Hunter-Young, Eva-Lynn Jagoe, Heather Macfarlane, Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard, Keith O’Regan, Joseph Pivato, Nasrin Rahimieh, Joshua Synenko, Monique Tschofen, Jerry Varsava, Jerry White, Kevin Wilson, Jan Plug, Markus Reisenleitner ...
    This timely volume takes stock of the discipline of comparative literature and its theory and practice from a Canadian perspective. It engages with the most pressing critical issues at the intersection of comparative literature and other areas of inquiry in the context of scholarship, pedagogy and academic publishing: bilingualism and multilingualism, Indigeneity, multiple canons (literary and ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History

    by Ramin Jahanbegloo, Ali M. Ansari, Touraj Atbaki, Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Homa Katouzian, Farhad Khosrokhavar, Mojtaba Mahdavi, Afshin Matin-Asghari, Farzaneh Milani, Haideh Moghissi0, Mohsen Mottaghi1, Saeed Paivandi2, Nasrin Rahimieh3, Peyman Vahabzadeh4, Ali Mirsepassi5, Farzin Vahdat6 ...
    In Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History, Jahanbegloo and contributors examine the role of Iranian intellectuals in the history of Iranian modernity. They trace the contributions of intellectuals in the construction of national identity and the Iranian democratic debate, analyzing how intellectuals balanced indebtedness to the West with the issue of national ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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    The Politics of the Turkish Novel

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  • Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture

    Essays by Hamid Dabashi

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    "Contemporary Art, World Cinema, and Visual Culture: Essays by Hamid Dabashi" is a collection of writings by the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar. A thorough Introduction rigorously frames chapters and identifies in Dabashi’s writings a comprehensive approach, which forms the criteria for selecting the essays for the volume. The Introduction also teases out of these essays the overarching ... Read more

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  • Anxiety of Erasure

    Trauma, Authorship, and the Diaspora in Arab Women's Writings

    by Hanadi Al-Samman ...
    Series series Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
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  • Modernism and the Art of Muslim South Asia

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  • Arab Culture and the Novel

    Genre, Identity and Agency in Egyptian Fiction

    by Muhammad Siddiq ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
    This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes – religious, social, political, and psychological – of the lingering identity crisis that has afflicted Arab culture for at least two centuries. ... Read more

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