Burying the beloved : marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran /
Motlagh, Amy, 1976-
Burying the beloved : marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran / Amy Motlagh. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 183 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : burying the past : Iranian modernity's marriage to realism -- Dismembering and re-membering the beloved : how the Civil Code remade marriage and marriage remade love -- Wedding or funeral? : the Family Protection Act and the bride's consent -- Ain't I a woman? : domesticity's other -- Exhuming the beloved, revising the past : lawlessness and postmodernism -- A metaphor for civil society? : marriage and "rights talk" in the Khtamī period -- Conclusion : a severed head? : Iranian literary modernity in transnational context.
This title reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism to challenge and re-imagine notions of 'the real'. The book explores seminal works that foreground acute anxieties about female subjectivity in an Iran negotiating its modernity.
English.
9780804778183 (electronic bk.) 0804778183 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper)
10.1515/9780804778183 doi
22573/ctvqrmx9q JSTOR
015978587 Uk
1900-1999
Persian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Persian literature--Social aspects--Iran.
Literature and society--History--Iran--20th century.
Law and literature--History--Iran--20th century.
Realism in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Women in literature.
Women's rights--Iran.
Women--Social conditions.--Iran
Roman persan--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Littérature persane--Aspect social--Iran.
Littérature et société--Histoire--Iran--20e siècle.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--Iran--20e siècle.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Mariage dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Femmes--Droits--Iran.
Femmes--Conditions sociales.--Iran
LITERARY CRITICISM--Middle Eastern.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
Law and literature.
Literature and society.
Marriage in literature.
Persian fiction.
Realism in literature.
Women in literature.
Women--Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Iran.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PK6423 / .M68 2012eb
891/.5509003
Burying the beloved : marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran / Amy Motlagh. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 183 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : burying the past : Iranian modernity's marriage to realism -- Dismembering and re-membering the beloved : how the Civil Code remade marriage and marriage remade love -- Wedding or funeral? : the Family Protection Act and the bride's consent -- Ain't I a woman? : domesticity's other -- Exhuming the beloved, revising the past : lawlessness and postmodernism -- A metaphor for civil society? : marriage and "rights talk" in the Khtamī period -- Conclusion : a severed head? : Iranian literary modernity in transnational context.
This title reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism to challenge and re-imagine notions of 'the real'. The book explores seminal works that foreground acute anxieties about female subjectivity in an Iran negotiating its modernity.
English.
9780804778183 (electronic bk.) 0804778183 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper)
10.1515/9780804778183 doi
22573/ctvqrmx9q JSTOR
015978587 Uk
1900-1999
Persian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Persian literature--Social aspects--Iran.
Literature and society--History--Iran--20th century.
Law and literature--History--Iran--20th century.
Realism in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Women in literature.
Women's rights--Iran.
Women--Social conditions.--Iran
Roman persan--Histoire et critique.--20e siècle
Littérature persane--Aspect social--Iran.
Littérature et société--Histoire--Iran--20e siècle.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--Iran--20e siècle.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Mariage dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Femmes--Droits--Iran.
Femmes--Conditions sociales.--Iran
LITERARY CRITICISM--Middle Eastern.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern
Law and literature.
Literature and society.
Marriage in literature.
Persian fiction.
Realism in literature.
Women in literature.
Women--Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Iran.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PK6423 / .M68 2012eb
891/.5509003