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In a Persian Mirror - Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction

English · Paperback / Softback

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The extreme anti-Western actions and attitudes of Iranians in the 1980s astonished and dismayed the West, which has characterized the Iranian positions as irrational and inexplicable. In this groundbreaking study of images of the West in Iranian literature, however, M. R. Ghanoonparvar reveals that these attitudes did not develop suddenly or inexplicably but rather evolved over more than two centuries of Persian-Western contact.
Notable among the authors whose works Ghanoonparvar discusses are Sadeq Hedayat, M. A. Jamalzadeh, Hushang Golshiri, Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi, Simin Daneshvar, Moniru Ravanipur, Sadeq Chubak, and Jalal Al-e Ahmad. This survey significantly illuminates the sources of Iranian attitudes toward the West and offers many surprising discoveries for Western readers, not least of which is the fact that Iranians have often found Westerners to be as enigmatic and incomprehensible as we have believed them to be.


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Authors M. R. Ghanoonparvar, M.R. Ghanoonparvar, Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar
Publisher Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.1993
 
EAN 9780292727618
ISBN 978-0-292-72761-8
No. of pages 192
Dimensions 154 mm x 234 mm x 17 mm
Weight 304 g
Series University of Texas Press
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures

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