Burying the beloved
Subtitle: marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran
By: Amy Motlagh
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780804775892
Subjects: History; Literature and society; Realism in literature; Women in literature; History and criticism; Marriage in literature; Persian fiction; Women's rights; Social conditions; Law and literature; Persian literature; Women
Description: This title reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism to challenge and re-imagine notions of 'the real'. The book explores seminal works that foreground acute anxieties about female subjectivity in an Iran negotiating its modernity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : burying the past : Iranian modernity's marriage to realism; title: Dismembering and re-membering the beloved : how the Civil Code remade marriage and marriage remade love; title: Wedding or funeral? : the Family Protection Act and the bride's consent; title: Ain't I a woman? : domesticity's other; title: Exhuming the beloved, revising the past : lawlessness and postmodernism; title: A metaphor for civil society? : marriage and "rights talk" in the Khtamī period; title: Conclusion : a severed head? : Iranian literary modernity in transnational context.