Persian Language, Literature and Culture

Kamran Talattof is Professor of Iranian studies at the University of Arizona and the author of Modernity, Sexuality, and Ideology in Iran: The Life and Legacy of a Popular Female Artist, which was among Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles, 2011 and co-recipient of the L. Yarshater Book Award, 2012.

• Introduction Kamran Talattof: "Leading Literary: On Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak’s Scholarship and Service and about This Collection" Part 1: Poetry and Poetics: 1. Franklin Lewis: "Solṭân Valad and the Poetical Order: Framing the Ethos and Praxis of Poetry in the Mevlevi Tradition after Rumi" 2. Marta Simidchieva: "Three Songs for Iran: Gender and Social Commitment in the Poetry of Parvin, Forugh, and Simin" 3. Sahar Allamezade: "Killed by Love: ‘Eshqi Revised; An Iranian Poet’s Quest for Modernization" 4. Peyman Vahabzadeh: " Rebellious Action and "Guerrilla Poetry": Dialectics of Art and Life in 1970s Iran" Part 2: Fiction and Prose: 5. Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami: "Explaining Tragedy: The Voice of Ironic Nondiscursivity in Bahram Sadeqi and Mohammad Asef Soltanzadeh" 6. Razi Ahmad: "A Postcolonial Reading of Simin Daneshvar’s Novels: The Spiritual and the Material Domains in Savushun, Jazira-ye Sargardani, and Sarban Sargardan" 7. Fatemeh Shams: "Literature, Art, and Ideology under the Islamic Republic: An Extended History of the Center for Islamic Art and Thoughts" Part 3: Language, Culture, and the Problematics of Translation 8. Ehsan Yarshater: "Ventures and Adventures of the Persian Language" 9. Kamran Talattof: "Social Causes and Cultural Consequences of Replacing Persian with Farsi: What's in a name?" 10. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi: "Ahmad Kasravi’s Critiques of Europism and Orientalism" 11. Arang Keshavarzian: "Mutual Comprehension and Hybrid Identities in the Bazaar: Reflections on Interviews and Interlocutors in Tehran" 12. Liora Hendelman-Baavur: "The Odyssey of Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s Gharbzadegi—Five Decades After" 13. Shadi Mazhari: "Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and the Overarching Problematic of Totalitarianism and Democracy in Postrevolutionary Iran" 14. Sima Daad: "Accented Texts: The Case of Chahār Maqāle and Mohammad Qazvini" 15. Abbas Jamshidi "Lizard as Arab Food: Representation of Arabs and the Shāhnāmeh Scholarship" 16. Firouzeh Dianat, "Iranian Female Authors and "the Anxiety of Authorship" 17. Samad Alavi: "Living in Lyric: The Task of Translating a Modernist Ghazal" 18. Jake Benson, "Satisfying an Appetite for Books: Innovation, Production, and Modernization in Later Islamic Bookbinding"

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