Pearl of Dari - Poetry and Personhood Among Young Afghans in Iran

Zuzanna Olszewska is Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East at the University of Oxford.

List of contents

Preface

A Note on the Translations, Transliteration, and Dates

Introduction

1. Border Crossings and Fractured Selves: A History of the Afghan Presence in Iran

2. The Melancholy Modern: The Rise of a Refugee Intelligentsia

3. Afghan Literary Organizations in Post-revolutionary Iran

4. The Social Lives of Poets and Poetry

5. Modern Love: Poetry, Companionate Marriage and Recrafting the Self

6. "When Your Darun Speaks to You": Ethics of Revelation and Concealment in Lyric Poetry

Conclusion

Epilogue

About the author

Zuzanna Olszewska

Product details

• Authors: Zuzanna Olszewska, Olszewska Zuzanna
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.11.2015
• EAN: 9780253017604
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01760-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Public Cultures of the Middle; Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa; Public Cultures of the Middle
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)