Iranian Literature after the Islamic RevolutionProduction and Circulation in Iran and the World
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About this book
Honourable Mention: Hamid Naficy Book Award of the Association of Iranian Studies 2022
- Explores the literary relations between Iran and the world, including its large diaspora, with a global framework
- Based on 15 years of fieldwork and travels in Iran, with unique interviews, data collection and participant observation
- Offers innovative theorisation of post-revolutionary Iranian literature on the margins of the world literary system
- Watch a presentation by the author about the book (via UCI Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture Youtube)
In this critical analysis, Laetitia Nanquette explores how Iranian literature has functioned and circulated from the 1979 revolution to the present. She looks at prose productions in particular, analysing several genres and media.
Taking Iran as a starting point, Nanquette explores the forms, structures and functions of Iranian literature within Iranian society. She then turns to the diaspora – with a focus on North America, Western Europe and Australia – and the world beyond Iranians to examine the current dynamics of literary production and circulation between Iranian diasporic spaces and the homeland.
Reviews
A most welcome, exceptionally valuable and timely contribution to the study of Iranian literature, world literature, comparative literature and diasporic literature. Nanquette's book is grounded in years of fieldwork and travel in Iran, with extensive interviews, data collection and participant observation; there are few more qualified to write on global Iranian literature.
Table of contents
Introduction
Part I: The Literary Field within Iran
1. Forms and Genres in Contemporary Iranian Literature
2. Digital Literature: The Importance of the Medium
3 The Iranian Literary Field: An Overview
4. Book Production within Iran: A Look at the Numbers
5. Iranian Children’s Literature: A Success Story Nationally and Globally
Part II: The Literary Field in the Diaspora
6. Iran and the Diaspora: Irreconcilable divisions?
7. Translation and Reception in the US and France
8. Iranian writers in Australia
9. Post-Revolutionary Iranian Literature in the World and in the Persian Cultural System
Afterword