At a time of growing state control, censorship and wholesale
crackdown on opposition in post-1953 Iran, intellectuals and
artists began to produce works that defied the Shah's dictatorship
and the regime's "Great Civilisation" propaganda. With the
emergence of urban guerrilla warfare in 1971, dissident artists -
spearheaded by Marxist People's Fadai Guerrillas (PFG) - created
symbolic works that popularised the militants' ideas through
artistic depictions and tropes, while portraying the militants as
immortal freedom-fighters. The arts of defiance thus swayed young
educated Iranians, as well as certain layers of the public, to
perceive the state through the eyes of its most radical critiques:
militant dissidents. By closely examining and interpreting the
poetry, fiction, songs and films of the 1960s and 1970s, this book
uncovers how militant action was translated into artistic
expressions and vice versa. It also explores how the PFG militants
- who were few in number - were able to acquire a 'heroic'
dimension in the eyes of the public, portraying a symbolic image of
defiance far beyond their actual militant existence.
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