In a Persian Mirror
Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction
University of Texas Press · Print & ebook · April 1, 1993
The extreme anti-Western actions and attitudes of Iranians in the 1980s astonished and dismayed the West, which has characterized the Iranian positions as irrational and inexplicable.
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- Who it’s for
- Iranian fiction traces changing images of the West across centuries of contact.
- Themes
- Images of the West in Iranian fiction, Iranian attitudes toward the West, Persian-Western contact
- Genres
- Middle Eastern Lit Crit, Comparative Literature, Iranian History
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The extreme anti-Western actions and attitudes of Iranians in the 1980s astonished and dismayed the West, which has characterized the Iranian positions as irrational and inexplicable. In this groundbreaking study of images of the West in Iranian literature, however, M. R. Ghanoonparvar reveals that these attitudes did not develop suddenly or inexplicably but rather evolved over more than two centuries of Persian-Western contact.
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Notable among the authors whose works Ghanoonparvar discusses are Sadeq Hedayat, M. A. Jamalzadeh, Hushang Golshiri, Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi, Simin Daneshvar, Moniru Ravanipur, Sadeq Chubak, and Jalal Al-e Ahmad. This survey significantly illuminates the sources of Iranian attitudes toward the West and offers many surprising discoveries for Western readers, not least of which is the fact that Iranians have often found Westerners to be as enigmatic and incomprehensible as we have believed them to be.
The West in Fiction
Iranian fiction traces changing images of the West across centuries of contact.
Come here for
- Images of the West in Persian fiction
- Discussions of writers including Sadeq Hedayat and Simin Daneshvar
Expect
- A survey spanning more than two centuries of Persian-Western contact
- An account of how Iranian attitudes toward the West evolved
Where it sits
| Middle Eastern Lit Crit | 96% |
|---|---|
| Comparative Literature | 36% |
| Iranian History | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Middle Eastern Lit Crit
- Authors
- M. R. Ghanoonparvar
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- April 1, 1993
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Images of the West in Iranian fiction · Iranian attitudes toward the West · Persian-Western contact
- Reading lane
- Middle Eastern Lit Crit