Sadeq Hedayat
Lovisa Berg, Dalarna University, Sweden
Homa Katouzian, Oxford University, UK
Gender, Society, and the Female Gaze What can novels tell us about cultural understanding of masculinity in Syria? In this book, Lovisa Berg explores over 20 Syrian novels covering the last half of the 20th century. Uniquely, she examines only female writers in order to gauge the changing ways in which Syrian women perceived the function of masculinity, and the impact certain attitudes towards masculinity have on men, women, children and Syrian society, from a female perspective. The works of writers from Kulit Khuri to Usayma Darwish are examined to explore changing attitudes to gender in Syria and the Middle East, as well as the political upheavals within the country and region. UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 240 pages HB 9780755637621 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755637645 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755637638 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
The Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer Sadeq Hedayat is the most famous and the most enigmatic Iranian writer of the 20th century. He was born in 1903 and he lived a troubled life which ended in 1951 with his suicide in Paris. His most celebrated novel, "The Blind Owl" has made an impact far beyond Iranian literary circles and has drawn the attention of Western critics. But Hedayat's impact on the development of modern fiction and on the lives of generations of Iranian intellectuals derives also from his other works and from what was a unique approach to life and art in a rapidly changing society. This book is the first comprehensive study of Hedayat's life and works set against the background of literary and political developments in Iran over the first half of the 20th century. Katouzian discusses Hedayat's life and times and the literary and political circles with which he was associated. But he also emphasises the uniqueness and universality of those ideas that have set Hedayat apart from other Iranian writers of the period and that have given him a mystique that has been instrumental in his posthumous success. This second edition is fully revised and updated to reflect on recent debates and scholarship on Sadeq Hadeyat.
Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran
Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry Edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, University of Oxford & Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine, USA Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament of the contemporary Iranian woman, at once subjected to long-held traditional practices and influenced by newly introduced modern social sensibilities. Highlighting her literary and cinematic innovation, this volume examines the unique place Farrokhzad occupies in Iran, both among modern Persian poets in general and as an Iranian woman writer in particular. It is a fitting and authoritative tribute to the work of a remarkable woman which will introduce and explain her legacy for a 21st-century audience. UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 288 pages • 16 bw illus PB 9780755600670 • £19.99 / $26.95 ePub 9780755600687 • £17.99 / $23.44 ePdf 9780755600694 • £17.99 / $23.44 I.B. Tauris
Animals and the Environment in Turkish Culture Ecocriticism and Transnational Literature
Kim Fortuny, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 256 pages PB 9780755642137 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9780755642175 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9780755642151 • £19.79 / $26.05 ePdf 9780755642144 • £19.79 / $26.05 I.B. Tauris World English
Love and Poetry in the Middle East
Love and Literature from the Antiquity to the Present Edited by Atef Alshaer This book analyses love poetry in various ancient and contemporary languages of the Middle East, including Akkadian, ancient Egyptian, Classical and Modern Standard Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish and Kurdish, including literary materials that have been discovered and highlighted for the first time. Together, the chapters reflect the discursive evolution of the theme of love, and the sensibilities, styles and techniques used to convey it. They chart the way in which poems in ancient poetry give way to complex and varied reflections of human sentiments in the medieval languages, and on to the modern period which in turn reflects the complexities and nuances of present times. A snapshot of the diverse literary languages and their relationship to the theme of love.
M I D D L E E A S T S T U D I E S / I . B . T A U R I S – Language & Literature
Masculinity and Syrian Fiction
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 272 pages • 1 bw illus HB 9780755640942 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780755640966 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9780755640959 • £76.50 / $100.32 I.B. Tauris
This book examines representations of and attitudes toward land and animals in selected Turkish literary texts and cultural contexts. Informed by global debates in ecocriticism, ecopoetics and animal studies, Kim Fortuny explores literary and arts activism - as well as environmental interventions in the Turkish cultural sphere in light of ongoing ecological degradation in Turkey. Writers from the Turkish canon such as Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar and Nâzim Hikmet are explored alongside American and English texts to reveal common transnational environmental and ecological concerns across these distinct literary cultures. UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 200 pages PB 9780755643660 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781788318181 ePub 9781786726575 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781786736635 • £81.00 / $106.83 I.B. Tauris
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