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Title
Iran : the rebirth of a nation / Hamid Dabashi.
ISBN
9781137587756 (electronic book)
113758775X (electronic book)
9781137592408
1137592400
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
DS79.76
Dewey Decimal Classification
956.70443
Summary
In this unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi provides a provocative account of Iran in its current resurrection as a mighty regional power. Through a careful study of contemporary Iranian history in its political, literary, and artistic dimensions, Dabashi decouples the idea of Iran from its colonial linkage to the cliché notion of "the nation-state," and then demonstrates how an "aesthetic intuition of transcendence" has enabled it to be re-conceived as a powerful nation. This rebirth has allowed for repressed political and cultural forces to surface, redefining the nation's future beyond its fictive postcolonial borders and autonomous from the state apparatus that wishes but fails to rule it. Iran's sovereignty, Dabashi argues, is inaugurated through an active and open-ended self-awareness of the nation's history and recent political and aesthetic instantiations, as it has been sustained by successive waves of revolutionary prose, poetry, and visual and performing arts performed categorically against the censorial will of the state.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed November 30, 2016)
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9781137592408
Introduction: The Rebirth of a Nation
Chapter 1 Persian Empire?
Chapter 2 A Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 3 A Metamorphic Movement
Chapter 4 An Aesthetic Reason
Chapter 5 Shi-ism at Large
Chapter 6 Invisible Signs
Chapter 7 A Transnational Public Sphere
Chapter 8 Cosmopolitan Worldliness
Chapter 9 Fragmented Signs
Chapter 10 The End of the West
Chapter 11 Damnatio Memoriae
Chapter 12 Mythmaker, Mythmaker, Make Me a Myth
Conclusion: What Time Is It?.
