Date:
Fri, 09/26/2014 - 3:00pm to Sat, 06/25/2022 - 4:01am
This project will provide textual, historical, and discursive analyses of Iranian women's bestselling novels of the last two decades, placing them in their sociopolitical context to reveal what they say about society's desire for reform, democracy, and civility. I employ my analytical model of Episodic Literary Movement for the project's theoretical framework and draw conclusions about the nature of modernity, reform, revolution, and the problematics of sexuality. According to this model, literary production is a discontinuous process that evolves within movements and in an episodic fashion. The appearance of these impressive novels represents a new set of literary exigencies and a new movement advocating a renewed literary modernity where feminist, reformist, and civil society activists find common ground for concern. How is this new literary movement different from the previous ones? How do these novels portray an emancipatory notion of the future?

DR. KAMRAN TALATTOF,
PROFESSOR, PERSIAN STUDIES
SCHOOL OF MIDDLE EASTERN & NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES
PROFESSOR, PERSIAN STUDIES
SCHOOL OF MIDDLE EASTERN & NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES
MENAS Colloquium Series
Friday, September 26, 2014
3pm