04037nam 2200781 a 450 991078187000332120230823222849.00-8047-7818-310.1515/9780804778183(CKB)2550000000056597(EBL)785126(OCoLC)767498718(SSID)ssj0000632966(PQKBManifestationID)12302659(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632966(PQKBWorkID)10616746(PQKB)11263365(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127934(DE-B1597)564429(DE-B1597)9780804778183(Au-PeEL)EBL785126(CaPaEBR)ebr10503306(OCoLC)1178769344(MiAaPQ)EBC785126(dli)HEB33213(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000834(EXLCZ)99255000000005659720110217d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBurying the beloved marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran /Amy MotlaghStanford, Calif. Stanford University Pressc20121 online resource (197 pages)0-8047-7589-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Marriage, realism, and reform in modern IranPersian fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismPersian literatureSocial aspectsIranLiterature and societyIranHistory20th centuryLaw and literatureIranHistory20th centuryRealism in literatureMarriage in literatureWomen in literatureWomen's rightsIranWomenIranSocial conditionsPersian fictionHistory and criticism.Persian literatureSocial aspectsLiterature and societyHistoryLaw and literatureHistoryRealism in literature.Marriage in literature.Women in literature.Women's rightsWomenSocial conditions.891/.5509003Motlagh Amy1976-1492383MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781870003321Burying the beloved3714881UNINA