LEADER 03984nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910457822803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-7818-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804778183 035 $a(CKB)2550000000056597 035 $a(EBL)785126 035 $a(OCoLC)767498718 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000632966 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12302659 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632966 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10616746 035 $a(PQKB)11263365 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127934 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC785126 035 $a(DE-B1597)564429 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804778183 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL785126 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10503306 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769344 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000056597 100 $a20110217d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBurying the beloved$b[electronic resource] $emarriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran /$fAmy Motlagh 210 $aStanford, California $cStanford University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (197 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-7589-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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 Khtami? period -- Conclusion : a severed head? : Iranian literary modernity in transnational context. 330 $aBurying 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. 606 $aPersian fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPersian literature$xSocial aspects$zIran 606 $aLiterature and society$zIran$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLaw and literature$zIran$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRealism in literature 606 $aMarriage in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aWomen's rights$zIran 606 $aWomen$zIran$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPersian fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPersian literature$xSocial aspects 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLaw and literature$xHistory 615 0$aRealism in literature. 615 0$aMarriage in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aWomen's rights 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions. 676 $a891/.5509003 700 $aMotlagh$b Amy$f1976-$01031287 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457822803321 996 $aBurying the beloved$92448584 997 $aUNINA