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Literature as a Tribunal: The Modern Iranian Prose of Incarceration
- Author(s):
- Rebecca Ruth Gould (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies, Prisons, Women also Know Literature
- Subject(s):
- Iranians--Social life and customs, Iranian literature, Prisoners' writings, Prisons, History, Persian literature, Middle East, Imprisonment--Study and teaching, Literature, Twentieth century
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Prison, Carceral, Iranian culture, Prison literature, Prison history, Carceral studies, 20th-century literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/qkfs-wq08
- Abstract:
- This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose, with a focus on how literary texts function as a tribunal, delivering forms of justice missing from the existing legal system. It constructs from the prison memoirs of a range of dissident writers (Dashti, ʿAlavi, and Baraheni) a genealogy of prison consciousness in Iranian modernity. The modern Iranian prose of incarceration is contextualized 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 literary texts illuminate the relation between aesthetics and power in modern Middle Eastern literatures.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
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- All Rights Reserved
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