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Zusatztext The contributors to this volume approach Persian literary criticism with sensitivity and seek to liberate the field from nationalist frameworks that all too often have hindered the study of Persian literature in the west. The essays collected here open our eyes to the diverse ways in which the Persian literary system has influenced other transnational literary systems and how, in turn, it has been shaped by those encounters over the past millennium and more. Informationen zum Autor Mostafa Abedinifard is Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature and Culture at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is currently working on two monographs, titled Satiric Modernity: Humor, Affect, and Nationalism in Iran and Men, Boys, and Manhood in Modern Iranian Literature, Culture, and Film . He has published articles in Asian Cinema, The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, Social Semiotics, de genere: Journal of Literary, Postcolonial and Gender Studies, Iran Nameh: A Quarterly of Iranian Studies, Literary Criticism (Tehran), Mahoor Music Quarterly (Tehran), and elsewhere. Omid Azadibougar is Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at Hunan Normal University, China. He is the author of The Persian Novel: Ideology, Fiction and Form in the Periphery (2014) and World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity (2020). Amirhossein Vafa is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Shiraz University, Iran. He is the author of Recasting American and Persian Literatures (2016). Vorwort Explores the transnational dimensions of Persianate literature, from early periods to today, and its influences both locally and beyond the Persian-speaking world. Zusammenfassung Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature—as transnational, worldly texts that expand beyond local and national penchants. Working through an idea of world literature that is both cosmopolitan and critical of any monologic view on globalization, the contributors to this volume revisit the early and contemporary circulation of Persianate literatures across neighboring and distant cultures, and seek innovative ways of developing a transnational Persian literary studies, engaging in constructive dialogues with the global forces surrounding, and shaping, Persianate societies and cultures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and DatesIntroduction: Decolonizing a Peripheral Literature Amirhossein Vafa (Shiraz University, Iran), Omid Azadibougar (Hunan Normal University, China), and Mostafa Abedinifard (University of British Columbia, Canada) Part One. Literary Worldliness 1. The Birth of the German Ghazal out of the Spirit of World Literature Amir Irani-Tehrani (West Point Military Academy, USA) 2. Otherworld Literature: Parahuman Pasts in Classical Persian Historiography and Epic Sam Lasman (University of Chicago, USA) 3. Globalization in Pre- and Postrevolutionary Iranian Literature: A Comparative Study of Authors inside and outside Iran Naghmeh Esmaeilpour (Humboldt University, Germany) 4. Contemporary Persian Literature and Digital Humanities Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South Wales, Australia) Part Two. Traveling Texts 5. Genres without Borders: Reading Modern Iranian Literature beyond "Center" and "Periphery" Marie Ostby (Connecticut College, USA) 6. Persian Epistemes in Naim Frashëri's Albanian Poetry Abdulla Rexhepi (University of Prishtina, Kosovo) 7. Ecumenism and Globalism in the Reception of Ferdowsi and His Shahnameh...
