Burying the beloved [[electronic resource] ] : marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran / / Amy Motlagh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457822803321
• Autore: Motlagh Amy <1976->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-8047-7818-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Disciplina: 891/.5509003
• Soggetti: Persian fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Persian literature - Social aspects - Iran; Literature and society - Iran - History - 20th century; Law and literature - Iran - History - 20th century; Realism in literature; Marriage in literature; Women in literature; Women's rights - Iran; Women - Iran - Social conditions; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : burying the past : Iranian modernity's marriage to realism -- Dismembering and re-membering the beloved : how the Civil Code remade marriage and marriage remade love -- Wedding or funeral? : the Family Protection Act and the bride's consent -- Ain't I a woman? : domesticity's other -- Exhuming the beloved, revising the past : lawlessness and postmodernism -- A metaphor for civil society? : marriage and "rights talk" in the Khtamī period -- Conclusion : a severed head? : Iranian literary modernity in transnational context.
• Sommario/riassunto: Burying the Beloved traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernity regarding women's rights and social status. The book reveals how novels mediate legal reforms and examines how authors have used realism to challenge and re-imagine notions of "the ; real." It examines seminal works that foreground acute anxieties about female subjectivity in an Iran negotiating its modernity from the Constitutional Revolution of 1905 up to and beyond the Islamic Revolution of 1979. By focusing on marriage as the central metaphor through which both law and fiction read gender, Motlagh critically engages and highlights the difficulties that arise as gender norms and laws change over time. She examines the recurrent foregrounding of marriage at five critical periods of legal reform, documenting how texts were understood both at first publication and as their importance changed over time.