Ruth Gould, Rebecca (2017) 'Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration.' Prose Studies, 39 (1). pp. 19-38.
Abstract
This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose. It constructs from the prison memoirs of the dissident writers ʿAli Dashti, Bozorg ʿAlavi, and Reza Baraheni a genealogy of the emergence of prison consciousness in Iranian modernity, across both the Pahlavi and post-revolutionary periods. The modern Iranian prose of incarceration is situated within an account of the prison as a site where the modern technologies of the state are refined. As I trace resonances between the long history of prison writing across the Islamic world and the prison literature of modern Iran, I consider how we can better understand the relation between prose and literary representation in modern Middle Eastern literatures.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | aesthetics and politics, imprisonment, Incarceration, Iran, Islamic revolution, memoir, modernity, Pahlavi, prose, testimony |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 01440357 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2017.1394637 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2023 06:45 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/40485 |
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