Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran : Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry.
Title:
Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran : Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry.
Author:
Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz.
ISBN:
9780857731517
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Series:
International Library of Iranian Studies
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Nasrin Rahimieh -- 1. Of the Sins of Forugh Farrokhzad -- Homa Katouzian -- 2. Men and Women Together: Love, Marriage and Gender in Forugh Farrokhzad's Asir -- Marta Simidchieva -- 3. Places of Confinement, Liberation, and Decay: The Home and the Garden in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad -- Dominic Parviz Brookshaw -- 4.Forugh Farrokhzad's Romance with Her Muse -- Rivanne Sandler -- 5. Bewildered Mirror: Mirror, Self and World in the Poems of Forugh Farrokh -- Leila Rahimi Bahmany -- 6. Personal Rebellion and Social Revolt in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad: Challenging the Assumptions -- Kamran Talattof -- 7. Garden in Motion: The Aesthetic of the Space Between -- Michael Beard -- 8. Forugh Farrokhzad's Apocalyptic Visions -- Sirous Shamisa -- 9. Capturing the Abject of the Nation in The House is Black -- Nasrin Rahimieh -- 10. The House is Black: A Timeless Visual Essay -- Maryam Ghorbankarimi -- 11. Forugh Farrokhzad as a Translator of German Poety: Observations About the Anthology Marg-e man ruzi -- Nima Mina -- 12. Alien Rebirths of 'Another Birth' -- M.R. Ghanoonparvar -- 13. Re-Writing Forugh: Writers, Intellectuals, Artists and Farrokhzad's Legacy in the Iranian Diaspora -- Persis M. Karim -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Four decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. _x000D_ During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament of the contemporary Iranian woman, at once subjected to long-held traditional practices and influenced by newly introduced modern social sensibilities. Highlighting her literary and cinematic innovation, this volume examines the unique place Farrokhzad occupies in Iran, both among modern Persian poets in general and as an Iranian woman writer in particular. The authors also explore Farrokhzad's appeal outside Iran in the Iranian diasporic imagination and through the numerous translations of her poetry into English. It is a fitting and authoritative tribute to the work of a remarkable woman which will introduce and explain her legacy for a 21st-century audience._x000D_ 'The epitome of what the Islamic Republic wanted to eradicate, Farrokhzad is now the Iranian equivalent of a rock star.' - Washington Post.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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