A Fire of Lilies: Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran

ISBN-13: 9789087283292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 250 str.

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

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Contents
Acknowledgments, Notes, and a Dedication
Prologue by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
Introduction by Asghar Seyed-Gohrab – The Bleeding Pen: Literature and Politics in Modern Iran
Part One
1 – Revolutionary Posturing: Iranian Writers and the Iranian Revolution
2 – Protest and Perish: A History of the Writers’ Association of Iran
3 – Authors and Authorities: Censorship and Literary Communication in the Islamic Republic of Iran
4 – Of Hail and Hounds: The Image of the Iranian Revolution in Recent Persian Literature
Part Two
5 – A Well Amid the Waste: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ahmad Shamlu
6 – Up from the Underground: The Meaning of Exile in Gholamhossein Sa.edi’s Last Short Stories
7 – Poet of Desires Turned to Dust: In Memoriam Mehdi Akhavan Saless
8 – A Storyteller and His Times: Ali-Akbar Sa.idi-Sirjani of Iran
Notes
Bibliography
Index