| In a Persian Mirror: Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction Contributor(s): Ghanoonparvar, M. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0292727615 ISBN-13: 9780292727618 Publisher: University of Texas Press OUR PRICE: $19.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern |
| Dewey: 891.550 |
| LCCN: 92039689 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.05" W x 9.04" (0.61 lbs) 191 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The extreme anti-Western actions and attitudes of Iranians in the past decade have astonished and dismayed the West, which has characterized the Iranian positions as irrational and inexplicable. In this groundbreaking study of images of the West in Iranian literature, however, M. R. Ghanoonparvar reveals that these attitudes did not develop suddenly or inexplicably but rather evolved over more than two centuries of Persian-Western contact. Notable among the authors whose works Ghanoonparvar discusses are Sadeq Hedayat, M. A. Jamalzadeh, Hushang Golshiri, Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi, Simin Daneshvar, Moniru Ravanipur, Sadeq Chubak, and Jalal Al-e Ahmad. This survey significantly illuminates the sources of Iranian attitudes toward the West and offers many surprising discoveries for Western readers, not least of which is the fact that Iranians have often found Westerners to be as enigmatic and incomprehensible as we have believed them to be. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ghanoonparvar, M. R.: - A native of Iran, M. R. Ghanoonparvar is Professor of Persian Language and Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. |