Sohrab's wars, counter-discourses of contemporary Persian fiction
Subtitle: a collection of short stories and a film script
By: [compiled] by Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, with Pari Shirazi.
Contributors: Khorrami, Mohammad Mehdi.; Shirazi, Pari.
Series: UCI Jordan Center Translation Series -- no. 1
Publisher: Mazda Publishers, Inc.; Mazda Pub
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [California]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781568592244
Subjects: Persian fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English; Short stories, Persian -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "Iran's literary production of the past century presents unprecedented riches, especially in works of fiction. Through their construction of extremely personal and individual narratives, many of these works have led to the puncturing of the grand narratives of the official discourse and have effectively succeeded in defining different times and spaces according to their own image." "The stories in this collection are among the best literary productions of contemporary Persian fiction. The authors, all of whom are quite established, skillfully use literary devices to create new realities which do not conform to any regulations and limitations imposed by prevalent discourses. These literary realities embody signs and codes which challenge the calcified narratives and definitions of subjective and objective territories."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: 1. Munes and Mordekhai / Reza Julai; title: 2. Purple hills / Reza Julai; title: 3. "Let me not split open the breast of my Sohrab" / Farkhondeh Hajizadeh; title: 4. Eight-thirty in the morning / Marjan Riahi; title: 5. The bridegroom of Kabul / Mohammad Asef Soltanzadeh; title: 6. The color of fire at midday / Shahriar Mandanipour; title: 7. The field where Sohrab's bones are planted / Bijan Najdi; title: 8. The eve of the slaying of Sohrab / Bijan Najdi; title: 9. Action-packed / Bahram Sadeqi; title: 10. A new prologue to the Shahnameh [Screenplay] / Bahram Beyzai.