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Author Motlagh, Amy, 1976-

Title Burying the beloved [electronic resource] : marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran / Amy Motlagh.

Imprint Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2012.

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Description xi, 183 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 Khtami period -- Conclusion : a severed head? : Iranian literary modernity in transnational context.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780804775892 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804775893
9780804778183 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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