Modern Iranian Women’s Literature

Nima Naghibi is Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Laetitia Nanquette is Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.Marie Ostby is Associate Professor of English and global Islamic studies at Connecticut College, USA, where she teaches postcolonial and world literature. Nasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA.

• IntroductionPart 1: Gendered Inflections of Poetic Norms1. Male beloved in Jahan-Malek Khatun’s ghazals, Zhinia Noorian, (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)2. Centering Motherhood, Asghar Seyed-Gohrab (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)3. Persian Qasida, Revolution, and Gender Justice, Fatemeh Shams (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Part 2: Navigating New Realities: The Complex Terrain of Post-Revolution Plays and Novels4. Civic Stages, Nahid Ahmadian (University of Maryland, USA)5. Rebels with a Cause, M. R. Ghanoonparvar (University of Texas at Austin, USA)6. “What Should I Make for Lunch?” Belqeys Soleimani on Being Pre-Modern in Post-Revolution Iran, Nasrin Rahimieh (University of California Irvine, USA)Part 3: Conditions of Production in Iran and Lures of Exoticization Abroad7. Women Publishers in Post-Revolutionary Iran, Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales, Australia)8. The Contours of Global Mainstream Fiction, Samad Alavi (University of Oslo, Norway)Part 4: Embracing and Defying Gender Norms9. A Queer Sort of Normativity, Mariam Rahmani (Bennington College, USA)10. Queering Gender/Queering Genre on the B-Side of Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental, Marie Ostby (Connecticut College, USA)11. Menstruation in Nilofar Shidmehr’s “Sakeen”, Nima Naghibi (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)Part 5: Healing Fractured Selves12. The Blessing of Ordinary Objects, Sahar Maziar (Independent Scholar, Germany)13. Writing Recovery, Goulia Ghardashkhani (University of Bamberg, Germany)14. Looking for the History of Modern Slavery in Iran in Memoirs by Contemporary Women Writers, Amy Motlagh (University of California, Davis, USA)15. Literary Mirror Mosaics in the Work of Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Farzaneh Milani (University of Virginia, USA)