Compiled by experts on the works of each individual poet, this book covers the poetry and poets of the Constitutional Revolution of Iran.
Following a two-pronged approach, this volume studies both those who were influenced by the Constitutional Revolution in their works and those who addressed the Revolution with their work, influencing it directly. Through the analysis of their works, this volume explores influential poets and writers from the period, including Iraj, Vaziri, Afrāshteh, Yazdi, Bahār and ‘Eshqi. It covers female poets who are often overlooked, as well as the major satirical poets whose work educated and entertained the readers and criticized socio-political events. Analysing the mainstream and marginal poets, this volume argues the margins initiated the evolution of Persian poetry. As Persian poetry and its multifunctional legacy became the standard-bearer of the Constitutional movement, this volume is an important contribution to an understanding of Iran.
This volume will be of interest to historians of the Constitutional Revolution and Iranian poetry, as well as to students and scholars of comparative revolutions. It is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate courses on Iranian history, Middle Eastern history and comparative studies of literature and revolution.
Author(s): Homa Katouzian, Alireza Korangy
Series: Iranian Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 220
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 Iraj, the Poet of Love and Humour
Chapter 2 The Silencing of Qamar al-Moluk Vaziri: Extravagance and Myth-Making in Iranian Historiography
Chapter 3 Mohammad ‘Ali Afrāshteh’s Gilaki Verse and the Legacy of the Constitutional Revolution (1905–1911)
Chapter 4 Freedom’s Song: Women and the Canonization of Constitutional Era Poets
Chapter 5 Social Education through Satirical Verse: Ashraf Gilāni and Ali Akbar Dehkhodā
Chapter 6 Margins, Resistance and Transformation in Classical Persian Poetry: Yaghmā Jandaqi as Precursive Kernel of the Constitutional Revolution Poetry
Chapter 7 Politics, Prison and Poetry: Analysis of Farrokhi Yazdi’s Poetics
Chapter 8 Singing Modernity with the Language of Tradition: Situating the Literary Theory and Practice of Mohammad-Taqi Bahār
Chapter 9 Crying on the Stage: ‘Eshqi the Playwright
Index
