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Persian Literature as World Literature Literatures as World Literature Can the literature of a specific country, author, or genre be used to approach the elusive concept of “world literature”? Literatures as World Literature takes a novel approach to world literature by analyzing specific constellations— according to language, nation, form, or theme—of literary texts and authors in their own world-literary dimensions. World literature is obviously so vast that any view of it cannot help but be partial; the question then becomes how to reduce the complex task of understanding and describing world literature. Most treatments of world literature so far either have been theoretical and thus abstract, or else have made broad use of exemplary texts from a variety of languages and epochs. The majority of critical work, the filling in of what has been traced, lies ahead of us. Literatures as World Literature fills in the devilish details by allowing scholars to move outward from their own areas of specialization, fostering scholarly writing that approaches more closely the polyphonic, multiperspectival nature of world literature. Series Editor: Thomas O. Beebee Editorial Board: Eduardo Coutinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Hsinya Huang, National Sun-yat Sen University, Taiwan Meg Samuelson, University of Cape Town, South Africa Ken Seigneurie, Simon Fraser University, Canada Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University, Denmark Volumes in the Series German Literature as World Literature, edited by Thomas O. Beebee Roberto Bolaño as World Literature, edited by Nicholas Birns and Juan E. 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Cover design by Simon Levy All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: HB: 978-1-5013-5422-9 ePDF: 978-1-5013-5420-5 eBook: 978-1-5013-5421-2 Series: Literatures as World Literature Typeset by Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. In memory of Fatemeh Sayyah (1902–48), pioneering polyglot, literary critic, and comparatist viii Contents Acknowledgments xi Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates xii Introduction: Decolonizing a Peripheral Literature Amirhossein Vafa, Omid Azadibougar, and Mostafa Abedinifard 1 Part One Literary Worldliness 1 The Birth of the German Ghazal out of the Spirit of World Literature Amir Irani-Tehrani 17 2 Otherworld Literature: Parahuman Pasts in Classical Persian Historiography and Epic Sam Lasman 35 3 Globalization in Pre- and Postrevolutionary Iranian Literature: A Comparative Study of Authors inside and outside Iran Naghmeh Esmaeilpour 51 4 Contemporary Persian Literature and Digital Humanities Laetitia Nanquette 69 Part Two Traveling Texts 5 Genres without Borders: Reading Modern Iranian Literature beyond “Center” and “Periphery” Marie Ostby 87 6 Persian Epistemes in Naim Frashëri’s Albanian Poetry Abdulla Rexhepi 105 7 Ecumenism and Globalism in the Reception of Ferdowsi and His Shahnameh: Evidence from the “Baysonqori Preface” Olga M. Davidson 123 8 Cats and Dogs, Manliness, and Misogyny: On the Sindbad-nameh as World Literature Alexandra Hoffmann 137 9 Cinema Joins Forces with Literature to Form Canon: The Cinematic Afterlife of Saʿedi’s “The Cow” as World Literature Adineh Khojastehpour 153 Part Three The Transnational Turn 10 Until a Shirt Blossoms Red: Proto-Third Worldism in Ahmad Shamlou’s Manifesto Levi Thompson 171

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