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Author Motlagh, Amy, 1976-

Title Burying the beloved : marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran / Amy Motlagh.

Publication Info. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 183 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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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Subject Persian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Persian fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Persian literature -- Social aspects -- Iran.
Persian literature.
Social aspects.
Iran.
Literature and society -- Iran -- History -- 20th century.
Literature and society.
History.
Law and literature -- Iran -- History -- 20th century.
Law and literature.
Realism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Women's rights -- Iran.
Women's rights.
Women -- Iran -- Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Motlagh, Amy, 1976- Burying the beloved. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2011007416
ISBN 9780804778183 (electronic book)
0804778183 (electronic book)
9780804775892 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0804775893