Title: Burying the beloved
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.
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, Persian literature, history and criticism, Iran, social conditions, Social aspects
Places: Iran
Time periods: 20th century