In The Politics of Writing in Iran, Kamran Talattof emphasizes the
pattern of literary change in Iran, as he focuses on the
relationship among the constructive elements of literary
creativity, literary, movement, ideology, and metaphorical language
of modern Persian authors.
Emerging in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a
secular activity, Persian literature acquired its own modernity by
redefining past aesthetic practices of identity and history. By
analyzing selected works of major pre- and post-revolutionary
literary figures, Talattof shows how Persian literary history has
not been an integrated continuum but a series of distinct episodic
movements shaped by shifting ideologies. Drawing on western
concepts, modern Persian literature has responded to changing
social and political conditions through complex strategies of
metaphorical and allegorical representations that both construct
and denounce cultural continuities.
The Politics of Writing in Iran provides a unique contribution
in that it uses texts that demonstrate close affinity to such
diverse ideologies as modernism, Marxism, feminism, and Islam. Each
ideological standard has influenced the form, characterization, and
figurative language of literary texts as well as setting the
criteria for literary criticism and determining which issues are to
be the focus of literary journals.
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