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Burying the beloved

by Motlagh, Amy,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Stanford University Press, (Stanford, California :) Physical details: xi, 183 p.
Subject(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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2012
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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 Khtam�i 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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