Modern Iranian Women’s Literature
Writing across Borders and Genres
Modern Iranian Women’s Literature
Writing across Borders and Genres
Description
Offering analyses of women's literary production in Iran as well as the Iranian diaspora, this book moves beyond the examination of writing as an act of resistance and explores what women writers have contributed to the forms of literary expression.
While Iranian women's literature predates the twentieth century, it became more visible in the twentieth- century. Flourishing in the wake of the 1979 revolution despite the restrictions imposed by the theocratic regime and a male-dominated field of production, it manifested explorations in genre and aesthetics. The mass migrations after the revolution gave rise to a sizeable community of Iranian women writers in diaspora who write about conditions of exile, displacement, nostalgia, and loss.
Through analysis of the work of writers such as Parvin 'Etesami, Goli Taraqi, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Simin Daneshvar, and Belqeys Soleimani, this book highlights the innovative ways in which these women writers have engaged with social and cultural restrictions and have contributed to the creation of new literary idiom and form.
Table of Contents
Conditions of Production
Chapter 1: Laetitia Nanquette, Women Publishers in Iran: Exploring Gender Imbalance and Challenges in the Literary Field
Chapter 2: Claudia Yaghoobi, Iranian Women's Online Writing Revolutionizes Male-Controlled Politics of Publishing
Boundaries and Transgressions
Chapter 3: Mariam Rahmani, Heterosexuality Hiding in Plain Sight
Chapter 4: Kamran Talattof, Hooray We Have an Apartment: An Analysis of My Bird in the Context of Iranian Women's Movement for Freedom
Chapter 5: Farzaneh Milani, From Us or them to Us and Them: Bahiyyih Nakhjavani at the Threshold
Disrupting Gender and Genre
Chapter 6: Amy Motlagh, Late Style in the Work of Simin Daneshvar
Chapter 7: Nahid Ahmadian, Women Playwrights in Postrevolutionary Iran: A Historical Survey
Chapter 8: Fatemeh Shams, Patterns of Inner Exile and Resistance in Modern Persian Poetry Written by Women
Chapter 9: Marie Ostby, Queering Gender, Queering Genre in Iranian Diasporic Literature
Epilogue: Nima Naghibi and Nasrin Rahimieh, Women's Writing Between Home and Diaspora
Product details
| Published | 17 Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350466524 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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