Burying the beloved [electronic resource] : marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran / Amy Motlagh.
Material type: TextPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2012.Description: xi, 183 pSubject(s):- Persian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Persian literature -- Social aspects -- Iran
- Literature and society -- Iran -- History -- 20th century
- Law and literature -- Iran -- History -- 20th century
- Realism in literature
- Marriage in literature
- Women in literature
- Women's rights -- Iran
- Women -- Iran -- Social conditions
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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