Amir Moosavi: Dust That Never Settles

Cover: 9781503642959 | Dust That Never Settles | Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War

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"Lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war fought between two states in the twentieth century. It marked a period that began just after a revolutionary government in Iran became an Islamic Republic and Saddam Hussein consolidated power in Iraq. It ended with both wartime governments still in power, borders unchanged, yet hundreds of thousands of dead. Neither side emerged as a clear victor, but both sides would eventually claim victory in some form. Dust That Never Settles considers how Iraqi and Iranian writers have wrestled with representing the Iran-Iraq War and its legacy, from wartime to the present. It demonstrates how writers from both countries have transformed once militarized, officially sanctioned war literatures into literatures of mourning, and eventually, into vehicles of protest that presented powerful counternarratives to the official state narratives. In writing the first comparative study of the literary output of this war, Amir Moosavi presents a new paradigm for the study of modern Middle Eastern literatures. He brings Persian and Arabic fiction into conversation with debates on the political importance of cultural production across the Middle East and North Africa, and he puts an important new canon of works in conversation with comparative literary and cultural studies within the Global South"--

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Note on Translations and Transliterations
Map of Iran, Iraq, and the Surrounding Region
Introduction: War, Writing, and Comparison
1. Mobilizing Literature
2. Representations of Survival and Loss
3. War Front Apocrypha
4. Writers' Home Front Wars
5. Ghosts of a Violent Past
Conclusion: Cultural Afterlives of 1979
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781503642959
ISBN-10:	150364295X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Moosavi, Amir
Hersteller:	Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	224 x 149 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Amir Moosavi
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.06.2025
Gewicht:	0,396 kg