Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
Amy Motlagh
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Hardback. This book explores the history of prose fiction in Iran in the context of contemporary legal reforms and examines marriage as a metaphor that unites them. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 383.
Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernity regarding women's rights and social status. The book reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism to challenge and re-imagine notions of "the real." It examines seminal works that foreground acute anxieties about female subjectivity in an Iran negotiating its modernity from the Constitutional Revolution of 1905 up to and beyond the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
By focusing on marriage as the central metaphor through which both law ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804775892
SKU
V9780804775892
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About Amy Motlagh
Amy Motlagh is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at The American University in Cairo.
Reviews for Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran
"Motlagh's work is compelling and convincing because she avoids simple causal relationships between politics and literature, but instead traces a complex relationship between legal political discourse and literary innovation. Not only is she careful to avoid any causal argument here; she skillfully shows that as discursive formations, law and literature share common underlying motivations, similar parameters, and overlapping concerns . ... Read more