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In a Persian Mirror - Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction (Paperback, New)
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In a Persian Mirror - Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction (Paperback, New)
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"I do not know of any other work which surveys the whole range of
19th- and 20th-century Persian prose writing in this way--from the
travel accounts (safarnamehs) of the 19th century down to the
present day. Of especial interest and importance to Western readers
is the author's analysis of post-revolutionary writing." --roger m.
savory, professor emeritus of middle eastern and islamic studies,
university of toronto The extreme anti-Western actions and
attitudes of Iranians in the past decade have 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. 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.
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