What is it about?
This study examines how fictional works written by Iranian women writers run the risk of being read as unmediated reflections of life for women in the Islamic Republic. My analysis offers suggestions for delving into the complexities in Iranian women's literature from 1969 to the present.
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Why is it important?
The Islamic Republic's strict rules about women's appearance and conduct have produced a desire to both seek insights into how women writers reflect on the challenges they face. I argue that we must not reduce these literary works to barometers of women's agency. In their fiction, I argue, we can see not only instances of resistance but also ambivalence and critique of cultural practices that predate the establishment of the Islamic Republic.
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As a university professor who has had occasion to teach Iranian women's literature, I have found it immensely productive to adopt perspectives that allow my students or readers who have never encountered Iranian women's writing to explore their rich social, cultural, and political contexts.
Nasrin Rahimieh
University of California, Irvine
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This page is a summary of: The Politics of Teaching Modern Persian Prose Fiction Written by Women, July 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004513129_013.
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