Modern Iranian Women’s Literature
Writing across Borders and Genres
Modern Iranian Women’s Literature
Writing across Borders and Genres
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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
Part 1: Gendered Inflections of Poetic Norms
1. Male beloved in Jahan-Malek Khatun's ghazals: A case of incomprehensibility, Zhinia Noorian
2. Centring Motherhood: Depictions of Mothers and Motherhood in Modern Persian Women's Poetry, Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
3. Persian Qasida, Revolution, and Gender Justice: Unveiling the Marginalized Voice of Mina Assadi, Fatemeh Shams
Part 2: Navigating New Realities: The Complex Terrain of Post-Revolution Plays and Novels
4. Civic Stages: Iranian Women Dramatists and the Politics of Theater in the 1980s and 1990s, Nahid Ahmadian
5. Rebels with a Cause, M. R. Ghanoonparvar
6. “What Should I Make for Lunch?” Belqeys Soleimani on Being Pre-Modern in Post-Revolution Iran, Nasrin Rahimieh
Part 3: Conditions of Production in Iran and Lures of Exoticization Abroad
7. Women Publishers in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Gender, Ideology and the State, Laetitia Nanquette
8. The Contours of Global Mainstream Fiction: Reading Shokoofeh Azar's The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree, Samad Alavi
Part 4: Embracing and Defying Gender Norms
9. A Queer Sort of Normativity: Gender and Sexuality in Goli Taraghi's “The Little Friend” , Mariam Rahmani
10. Queering Gender/Queering Genre on the B-Side of Négar Djavadi's Disoriental, Marie Ostby
11. Menstruation in Nilofar Shidmehr's “Sakeen”: A Story of Gender and Class Transgression, Nima Naghibi
Part 5: Healing Fractured Selves
12. The Blessing of Ordinary Objects: Obsessive Housekeeping and Its Emancipatory Potential in My Bird by Fariba Vafi and As If You Had Said, Leyli by Sepideh Shamlu, Sahar Maziar
13. Writing Recovery: Self and Narrativity in Goli Taraghi's Short Stories, Goulia Ghardashkhani (Bamberg)
14. Looking for the History of Modern Slavery in Iran in Memoirs by Contemporary Women Writers, Amy Motlagh
15. Literary Mirror Mosaics in the Work of Bahiyyih Nakhjavani, Farzaneh Milani
Product details
| Published | Oct 15 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350466517 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Global Women’s Writing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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