Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan - Anomalous Visions of History and Form

Informationen zum Autor Wali Ahmadi is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Klappentext "This book charts the development of Afghan literature in the modern era, covering both poetry and prose, and relating it to social, economic and political change in that country." Winner of the Iranian World Prize for Book of the Year in Islamics Studies 2009"The literary history of Afghanistan in the 20th century has received little attention so far. The process of transmission and reception of modernity itself is one of the many lacunae in our knowledge of the cultural setting in Afghanistan. Wali Ahmadi's account of the development of modern Persian literature stands as a first, noteworthy step towards rectifying this situation. In his citation-laden introduction he makes it clear that he considers the dissemination of modernity in Afghanistan to have been at once a selective and an active process... This book provides a useful introduction to and a selective overview of the literary history of Afghanistan in the 20th century... Wali Ahmadi is to be commended for dedicating himself to this complex task." - Christine Noelle-Karimi; Middle Eastern Literatures: incorporating Edebiyat, 13:1, 117-119 (2011). Zusammenfassung Offers an analysis of the poetry and fiction of Afghanistan. This book demonstrates that, within the trajectory of the union between modern aesthetic imagination and politics, the modernist intervention enabled many contemporary poets and writers of fiction to resist the overt politicization of the literary field, without evading politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Conundrum of Modernity 1. Beyond "Mist and Pebble": Ordering the Culture of Modernity 2. The Poetics of (National) Truth Content 3. Perilous Ends of History: The Rhetoric of Commitment and the Poetics of Nationalism 4. Literature of Commandement and the Crisis of Commitment 5. De-Centering Dissent. Epilogue: Contending with History ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Wali Ahmadi, Wali (University of California Ahmadi, Walid Ahmadi, Ahmadi Wali, Ahmadi Walid
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 10.03.2008
• EAN: 9780415437783
• ISBN: 978-0-415-43778-3
• Seiten: 192
• Serien: Iranian Studies; Iranian Studies (Routledge); Iranian Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Iran, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature