Burying the Beloved : Marriage, Realism and Reform in the Modern Iran.
& DIV & & I & Burying the Beloved & /I & 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 ref...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2011
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | & DIV & & I & Burying the Beloved & /I & 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. & BR & & BR & By focusing on m. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (197 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780804778183 0804778183 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
