Persian Literature as World Literature

Persian Literature as World Literature
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9781501354205
ISBN-13 : 1501354205
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Book Synopsis Persian Literature as World Literature by : Mostafa Abedinifard

Download or read book Persian Literature as World Literature written by Mostafa Abedinifard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature-as transnational, worldly texts that expand beyond local and national penchants. Working through an idea of world literature that is both cosmopolitan and critical of any monologic view on globalization, the contributors to this volume revisit the early and contemporary circulation of Persianate literatures across neighboring and distant cultures, and seek innovative ways of developing a transnational Persian literary studies, engaging in constructive dialogues with the global forces surrounding, and shaping, Persianate societies and cultures.


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