Insurgent, poet, mystic, sectarian
Subtitle: the four masks of an eastern postmodernism
By: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Series: Suny series in global modernity
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438456119
Subjects: Postmodernism (Literature); Persian literature; Western influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Modernity, age of extremity; title: 1. Theorizing the insurgent: otherless subjectivity, radical coldness, and the East-West matrix; title: 2. Images of resistance: media, modernity, and the machine within Iranian revolutionary ideology; title: 3. The poetics of urban violence: the night raid, the martyred body, and the execution spectacle; title: 4. Will to chaos: Iranian avant-garde literature and western thought; title: 5. Vision, disappearance, and the soundscape: new wave Iranian cinema and the postmodern pack; title: 6. Sectarianism I: And they shall dream of the enemy; title: 7. Sectarianism II: Final delineations of the sect.