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Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution

To Ambroise, Casarie, Octavie and Prudence

Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution Production and Circulation in Iran and the World

Laetitia Nanquette

Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.com © Laetitia Nanquette, 2021 Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road 12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 11/15 Adobe Garamond by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire, and printed and bound in Great Britain A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 4744 8637 8 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 4744 8640 8 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 1 4744 8639 2 (epub) The right of Laetitia Nanquette to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498).

Contents

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements ix Note on Permissions xi Note on Translation and Transliteration xiii Introduction

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Part 1  The Literary Field within Iran 1 2 3 4 5

Forms and Genres in Contemporary Iranian Literature 23 Digital Literature: The Importance of the Medium 45 The Iranian Literary Field: An Overview 72 Book Production within Iran: A Look at the Numbers 113 Iranian Children’s Literature: A Success Story Nationally and Globally 138

Part 2  The Literary Field in the Diaspora 6 7 8 9

Iran and the Diaspora: Irreconcilable Divisions? Translation and Reception in the US and Fran

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Politics and Culture in Contemporary Iran

Politics and Culture in Contemporary

Iran Challenging the Status Quo edited by

Abbas Milani Larry Diamond

b o u l d e r l o n d o n

Published in the United States of America in 2015 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 1800 30th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80301 www.rienner.com and in the United Kingdom by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8LU © 2015 by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN 978-1-62637-146-0 (hc : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-62637-147-7 (pb : alk. paper)

British Cataloguing in Publication Data A Cataloguing in Publication record for this book is available from the British Library.

Printed and bound in the United States of America

The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1992. 5 4 3 2 1

Contents

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Preface

Introduction Abbas Milani and Larry Diamond

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1 Ayatollah Khomeini’s Theory of Government

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Arash Naraghi 2 Cleavages in Iranian Politics Since 1979

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Hossein Bashiriyeh 3 Democracy After the Green Movement

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Mehrangiz Kar 4 Examining Iran’s Legal Structure

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Fatemeh Haghighatjoo 5 The Rule of the Basij in Iranian Politics

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Saeid Golkar 6 A Portrait of the Persian Blogosphere

141

John Kelly and Bruce Etling 7 The Role of Social Media: Myth and Reality

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Mehdi Yahyanejad 8 The Revolution and Music: A Personal Odyssey

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Mohsen Namjoo 9 Iran’s Democratic Movements

Abbas Milani

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Epilogue: A History of Postrevolutionary Iran: A Prose Poem Simin Behbahani

259 271 285 287 301

Bibliography The Contributors Index About t

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