Burying the beloved

Motlagh, Amy, 1976-

Burying the beloved marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran / [electronic resource] : Amy Motlagh. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2012. - xi, 183 p.

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.


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Persian fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Persian literature--Social aspects--Iran.
Literature and society--History--Iran--20th century.
Law and literature--History--Iran--20th century.
Realism in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Women in literature.
Women's rights--Iran.
Women--Social conditions.--Iran


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