Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems

Author: Forough Farrokhzad
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811232387
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
A ravishing new translation of Iran’s trailblazing, feminist poet in an indispensable collection In the years since her tragic death in a car accident at age thirty-two in 1967, Forough Farrokhzad has become a poet as iconic and influential as Lorca or Akhmatova, celebrated as a pioneer of modernist Iranian literature and as a leading figure of contemporary world literature. Farrokhzad, as Elizabeth Gray writes in the preface, “remains a beacon to artists, especially women and marginalized artists, who seek freedom in all its forms.” This thoughtfully curated, deftly translated selection of Farrokhzad’s poems includes work from her whole writing life, early to late. Readers will thoroughly treasure this expansive poet of the quotidian; of longing, loss, and desire; of classical reinvention; of lexical variation and sonic beauty; of terrifying wisdom, hope, and grief.

Another Birth

Author: Furūgh Farrukhzād
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789646117181
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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A Lonely Woman

Author: Michael Craig Hillmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Woman Life Freedom

Author: Malu Halasa
Publisher: Saqi Books
ISBN: 0863569773
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Mahsa Jina Amini's death at the hands of Iran's Morality Police on 16 September 2022 sparked widespread protests across the country. Women took to the streets, uncovering their hair, burning headscarves and chanting 'Woman, Life, Freedom' – 'Zan Zendegi Azadi' in Persian and 'Jin Jîyan Azadî' in Kurdish – in mass demonstrations. An explosion of creative resistance followed as art and photography shared online went viral and people around the world saw what was really going on in Iran. Woman Life Freedom captures this historic moment in artwork and first-person accounts. This striking collection goes behind-the-scenes at forbidden fashion shows; registers the sound of dissent in Iran, where it has been illegal for women to sing unaccompanied in public since 1979; and walks the streets of Tehran with 'The Smarties' – Gen Z women who colour and show their hair in defiance of the authorities, despite the potentially devastating consequences. Extolling the power of art, writing and body politics – both female and queer – this collection is both a universal rallying call and a celebration of the women the regime has tried and failed to silence. This is what protest looks like.

A Cup of Sin

Author: Simin Behbahani
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815656971
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
Simin Behbahani’s collection contains some of the most formative work of twentieth-century Persian literature. Written over almost a half-century, much of her poetry reflects the traumatic experiences that have shaped Iranian history: revolution and war. Behbahani balances artful inquiry and shocking realism in both her language and imagery to probe the depths of political, cultural, and moral oppression. In the traditional verse of the ghazal, she improvises with meter to echo and provide new interpretations.

Literature and the Body

Author: Purdy
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004656413
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Women's Autobiographies in Contemporary Iran

Author: Afsaneh Najmabadi
Publisher: Harvard CMES
ISBN: 9780932885050
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
The four essays in this volume discuss the autobiographical writings of Iranian women. The contributors to the collection include William Hanaway, Michael Hillmann, and Farzaneh Milani. Milani asks why modern Persian literature, with its rich self-reflective tradition, has not produced many autobiographies, and what particular problems confront Iranian women engaging in autobiographical writing. Najmabadi discusses one of the earliest modern autobiographical writings by a woman, Taj os-Saltaneh’s Memories, and Hillman projects Forugh Farrokhzad’s poetry as an autobiographical voice. Hanaway investigates the possibilities of going beyond lack of Western-style autobiographical form and looking for what Persian literary forms and categories provide for the autobiographical voice.

Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema

Author: Terri Ginsberg
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810873648
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 593

Book Description
The Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema covers the production and exhibition of cinema in the Middle East and in other communities whose heritage is from the region and whose films commonly reflect this background. It covers the cinemas of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen. In addition, it includes the non-Arab states of Turkey and Iran, as well as the Jewish state of Israel.

Otherhood

Author: Kathryn Van Beek
Publisher: Massey University Press
ISBN: 1991016751
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 383

Book Description
In New Zealand the number of people who will never have children is growing — and they' re pushing back against the narrative that if they don' t, their lives will be somehow &‘ less than' .Otherhood' s essays are by writers who' ve felt on the outside looking in, who' ve lived unexpected lives and who' ve given the finger to social expectations. Some chose to be childfree, some didn' t get to choose and some — through bereavement or blended family dynamics — ask themselves: Am I a mother or am I other?Thought-provoking, moving and often hilarious, Otherhood opens a more inclusive conversation about what makes a fulfilling life.

Sin

Author:
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557289484
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 169

Book Description
Annotation. Winner of the 2010 Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize.