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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Zuzanna Olszewska

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Zuzanna Olszewska, Olszewska Zuzanna
• Editore: Indiana University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.11.2015
• EAN: 9780253017604
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01760-4
• Pagine: 280
• Serie: Public Cultures of the Middle; Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa; Public Cultures of the Middle
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata