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Author:
Motlagh, Amy, 1976- author.
Title:
Burying the beloved : marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran / Amy Motlagh.
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
xi, 183 pages; 23 cm
Subject:
Persian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Persian literature--Social aspects--Iran.
Literature and society--Iran--History--20th century.
Law and literature--Iran--History--20th century.
Realism in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Women in literature.
Women's rights--Iran.
Women--Iran--Social conditions.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages157-174) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : burying the past : Iranian modernity's marriage to realism -- Dismembering and re-membering the beloved : how the Civil Code remade marriage and marriage remade love -- Wedding or funeral? : the Family Protection Act and the bride's consent -- Ain't I a woman? : domesticity's other -- Exhuming the beloved, revising the past : lawlessness, postmodernism, and heterotopia -- A metaphor for civil society? : marriage and "rights talk" in the Khatami period -- Conclusion : a severed head? : Iranian literary modernity in transnational context.
ISBN:
0804775893 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780804775892 (cloth : acid-free paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)704121093
LCCN:
2011007416
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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