An edition of Burying the beloved
(2011)
Burying the beloved
marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran
by Amy Motlagh
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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.
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History, Literature and society, Realism in literature, Women in literature, History and criticism, Marriage in literature, Persian fiction, Women's rights, Social conditions, Law and literature, Persian literature, Women, Persian literature, history and criticism, Iran, social conditions, Social aspectsPlaces
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Burying the beloved: marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran
2011, Stanford University Press
in English
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Table of Contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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