In this critical analysis, Laetitia Nanquette explores how Iranian literature has functioned and circulated since the 1979 revolution until the present. She looks at prose productions in particular, analysing several genres and media. Taking Iran as a starting point, Nanquette explores the forms, structures and functions of Iranian literature within Iranian society. She then turns to the diaspora - with a focus on North America, Western Europe and Australia - and the world beyond Iranians to examine the current dynamics of literary production and circulation between Iranian diasporic spaces and the homeland.
Author(s): Laetitia Nanquette
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 312
Tags: Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Postcolonialsim, Iranian Literature
Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Permissions
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Introduction
Part 1 The Literary Field within Iran
1 Forms and Genres in Contemporary Iranian Literature
2 Digital Literature: The Importance of the Medium
3 The Iranian Literary Field: An Overview
4 Book Production within Iran: A Look at the Numbers
5 Iranian Children’s Literature: A Success Story Nationally and Globally
Part 2 The Literary Field in the Diaspora
6 Iran and the Diaspora: Irreconcilable Divisions?
7 Translation and Reception in the US and France
8 Iranian Writers in Australia
9 Post-Revolutionary Iranian Literature in the World and in the Persian Cultural System
Afterword
References
Index
