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Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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At the height of literary nationalisms in the twentieth century, leftist internationalists from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and the Soviet East bonded over their shared love of the classical Persian verses of Hafiz and Khayyam. At writers' congresses and in communist literary journals, they affirmed their friendship and solidarity with lyric ghazals and ruba'iyat. Persianate poetry became the cultural commons for a distinctively Eastern internationalism, shaping national literatures in the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and South Asia. By the early Cold War, the literary entanglement between Persianate culture and communism had established models for cultural decolonization that would ultimately outlast the Soviet imperial project. In the archive of literature produced under communism in Persian, Tajik, Dari, Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Armenian, and Russian, this book finds a vital alternative to Western globalized world literature.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-12-21
Mått155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in World Literature
Antal sidor312
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009411639

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Introduction. Persianate/Eastern/International: Geographies, forms, periodizations; 1. Tribunes: the newspaper poetry of Eastern revolution, 1905–1925; 2. Canons: Classical Persianate voices in national and international literary institutions, 1921–1948; 3. Occasions: context collapse in the multinational system of socialist realism, 1934–1938; 4. Translations: sentimental internationalism and its Eastern love languages, 1941–1972; 5. Recognitions: persianate internationalism at the ends of Soviet empire, 1958–2023; Conclusion. Old verses for a Persianate internationalist future.

'A groundbreaking account of the intertwinement of Persianate poetics and Soviet politics from the transregional revolutionary days of early 20th-century Russia, Iran, and the Ottoman Empire to the fragmentation of the Persianate zone through the Soviet state-building projects in Transcaucasia and Central Asia, the collapse of the USSR, and the post-Soviet era in Eurasia. … 'Persianate Verse' addresses a long-standing need in world literature studies for alternative models of 'worlding' literature and is a timely reminder of the enduring power of poetry to bridge divides and create a sense of shared humanity across borders and ideologies.' Kayvan Tahmasebian, International Journal of Middle East Studies