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.
| ISBN: | 9781501354229 |
| Publication date: | 12th August 2021 |
| Author: | Dr Mostafa University of British Columbia, Canada Abedinifard |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic USA an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Literatures as World Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary theory |
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.
Persian Literature as World Literature features in the following genres: Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary theory
Persian Literature as World Literature is available in Hardback
Persian Literature as World Literature was written by Dr Mostafa University of British Columbia, Canada Abedinifard and published by Bloomsbury Academic USA an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Persian Literature as World Literature has 272 pages
Yes it is part of Literatures as World Literature series