Intorduction : the quiet revolution -- The "anti-modern" allure -- De-politicizing Westoxification : the case of "Bonyad Monthly" -- Ehsan Naraghi : chronicle of a man for all seasons -- Iranian cinema's "quiet revolution" (1960s-70s) -- "Bearing witness" to Iranian modernities" -- The Shah : a modern mystic? -- The imaginary invention of a nation : Iran in 1930s and 1970s -- An elective affinity : variations of Gharbzadegi.
Summary:
"In remembering the 1978 Iranian Revolution, there is a scholarly convention of memory capturing our imagination. A given consensus seems to be evolving that, at the cultural and intellectual levels, the Revolution represented a sharp cultural war opposing the "modernist" Pahlavi State to a fiercely traditional "religious" opposition. Following this unthought template, the Revolution is recalled as a major confrontation between modernity and tradition. This book ventures a different and more nuanced analysis, arguing for a convergence of anti-modern, spiritual, and nativist discourse in both the Pahlavi state and the Islamist revolutionary movement"-- Provided by publisher.
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