Burying the beloved : marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran /

This title reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism to challenge and re-imagine notions of 'the real'. The book explores seminal works that foreground acute anxieties about female subjectivity in an Iran negotiating its modernity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Motlagh, Amy, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2012.
Temas:
1900-1999
Persian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Persian literature > Social aspects > Iran.
Literature and society > Iran > History > 20th century.
Law and literature > Iran > History > 20th century.
Realism in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Women in literature.
Women's rights > Iran.
Women > Iran > Social conditions.
Roman persan > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature persane > Aspect social > Iran.
Littérature et société > Iran > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Droit et littérature > Iran > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Mariage dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Femmes > Droits > Iran.
Femmes > Iran > Conditions sociales.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Middle Eastern.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
Law and literature
Literature and society
Marriage in literature
Persian fiction
Realism in literature
Women in literature
Women > Social conditions
Women's rights
Iran
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : burying the past : Iranian modernity's marriage to realism
  • Dismembering and re-membering the beloved : how the Civil Code remade marriage and marriage remade love
  • Wedding or funeral? : the Family Protection Act and the bride's consent
  • Ain't I a woman? : domesticity's other
  • Exhuming the beloved, revising the past : lawlessness and postmodernism
  • A metaphor for civil society? : marriage and "rights talk" in the Khtamī period
  • Conclusion : a severed head? : Iranian literary modernity in transnational context.

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