The World Is My Home: A Hamid Dabashi Reader

ISBN-13: 9781138517196 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 331 str.

Andrew Davison

Opis

As recent events indicate, Iranian, Middle Eastern, and Islamic politics more broadly have been deeply influential in world affairs

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part 1: Counter-Imagining Islam and Iran

Islams
1. In the Absence of the Face
2. Shi'ism as Paradox
3. Counter-Imagining the Sacred

Islamic Ideology
4. The Power of Interpretation
5. Blindness and Insight: The Predicament of a Muslim Intellectual

Iran
6. On Nations Without Borders
7. Khomeini's Revolution

Part 2: Emancipatory Aesthetics

Poetic Revolutions
8. Nima Yushij and the Constitution of a National Subject
9. Forugh Farrokhzad and the Formative Forces of Iranian Culture

Cinematic Palpitations
10. Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf
11. On Signs and Signation

New Global Visual Arts
12. Whither Iranian Cinema? The Perils and Promises of Globalization
13. It was in China, Late One Moonless Night

Hamid Dabashi: A Select Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Andrew Davison