Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

Name: Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran
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SKU: 9780755600670
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Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry

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Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran explores the life and work of one of Iran's most influential poets and filmmakers. Farrokhzad's poetry and cinema challenged the patriarchal and cultural norms of 1960s Iran, embodying the struggles of contemporary Iranian women caught between tradition and modernity. This volume highlights her literary innovation and her place among modern Persian poets, while also examining her impact beyond Iran, including through translations and the Iranian diaspora. The second edition offers new insights with chapters on her travel writing in Italy and her influence on Afghan poet Laila Sarahat Rowshani, making it a definitive guide to her enduring legacy.
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This is an essential read for students and scholars of Persian poetry, Iranian history, gender studies, and Middle Eastern literature, as well as for general readers interested in influential women writers and cultural icons of modern Iran.

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The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Five decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran brings her ground-breaking work into new focus.

During her lifetime, Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament of the contemporary Iranian woman, at once subjected to long-held traditional practices and influenced by newly introduced modern social sensibilities. Highlighting her literary and cinematic innovation, this volume examines the unique place Farrokhzad occupies in Iran, both among modern Persian poets in general and as an Iranian woman writer in particular.

The authors also explore Farrokhzad's appeal outside Iran in the Iranian diasporic imagination and through the numerous translations of her poetry into English. It is a fitting and authoritative tribute to the work of a remarkable woman, which will introduce and explain her legacy for a 21st-century audience.

This second edition includes two new chapters which explore a travelogue Farrokhzad wrote during her time in Italy, and an examination of Farrokhzad's influence on the writings of the Afghan female poet Laila Sarahat Rowshani.

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Praised as the Iranian equivalent of a rock star by Washington Post, this book is acclaimed as the "single most important critical study" of Forugh Farrokhzad in English by Franklin Lewis of the University of Chicago. Michael Craig Hillman of the University of Texas highlights the volume's significance, noting that it fills a critical gap long left in Farrokhzad scholarship. The collection is described as an essential English-language portal offering deep understanding of her life, context, and work, inspiring those who seek freedom in love, life, and art.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780755600670

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: I.B. Tauris

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 16 bw illus

Contributors:

Edited by Nasrin Rahimieh
Edited by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 462g

Pages: 288

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About the Author

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Professor of Persian Literature and Iranian Culture at the University of Oxford, UK and Senior Research Fellow in Persian at Wadham College, Oxford, UK. He has published widely on premodern Persian lyric poetry, women writers of the Qajar era, and twentieth-century Iranian poets. His most recent book, Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry, Performance, and Patronage in Fourteenth-century Iran (I.B. Tauris, 2019), won the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award in 2020.

Nasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA. Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature, the literature of Iranian exile and diaspora, contemporary Iranian women’s writing, and post revolutionary Iranian cinema. Among her publications are Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity (2015), Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History (2001), the English translation of the late Taghi Modarressi’s last novel, The Virgin of Solitude (2008), and Oriental Responses to the West (1990).