Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution : Production and Circulation in Iran and the World

This book analyses the field of contemporary Iranian literature. It explores how literature has functioned and circulated since the 1979 revolution until the present, both within Iran and in countries of the Iranian diaspora, focusing on North America, Western Europe and Australia. It focuses on prose productions, analysing several genres and media. The book takes Iran as its starting point, revealing the forms, structures and functions of Iranian literature within Iranian society, before turning to the global diaspora to examine the current dynamics of literary production and circulation between Iranian diasporic spaces and the homeland. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the contemporary Iranian literary field in its relation to the social, economic and political fields, both within Iran and in the diaspora. It is also a critical intervention in the field of World Literature as it explores Persian literary texts and the Iranian literary field in their worldly dimensions, with an interdisciplinary and global perspective. It is based on 15 years of fieldwork and travels in Iran, with unique interviews, data collection and participant observation. Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution Copyright Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Note on Permissions Note on Translation and Transliteration Introduction Part 1 The Literary Field within Iran 1 Forms and Genres in Contemporary Iranian Literature 2 Digital Literature: The Importance of the Medium 3 The Iranian Literary Field: An Overview 4 Book Production within Iran: A Look at the Numbers 5 Iranian Children’s Literature: A Success Story Nationally and Globally Part 2 The Literary Field in the Diaspora 6 Iran and the Diaspora: Irreconcilable Divisions? 7 Translation and Reception in the US and France 8 Iranian Writers in Australia 9 Post-Revolutionary Iranian Literature in the World and in the Persian Cultural System Afterword References Index In this critical analysis, Laetitia Nanquette explores how Iranian literature has functioned and circulated since the 1979 revolution until the present. She looks at prose productions in particular, analysing several genres and media. Taking Iran as a starting point, Nanquette explores the forms, structures and functions of Iranian literature within Iranian society. She then turns to the diaspora - with a focus on North America, Western Europe and Australia - and the world beyond Iranians to examine the current dynamics of literary production and circulation between Iranian diasporic spaces and the homeland. In this critical analysis, Laetitia Nanquette explores how Iranian literature has functioned and circulated from the 1979 revolution to the present. She looks at prose productions in particular, analysing several genres and media.0Taking Iran as a starting point, Nanquette explores the forms, structures and functions of Iranian literature within Iranian society. She then turns to the diaspora ? with a focus on North America, Western Europe and Australia ? and the world beyond Iranians to examine the current dynamics of literary production and circulation between Iranian diasporic spaces and the homeland