Burying the beloved marriage, realism, and reform in modern Iran /

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Main Author: Motlagh, Amy, 1976-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : burying the past : Iranian modernity's marriage to realism
  • Dismembering and re-membering the beloved : how the Civil Code remade marriage and marriage remade love
  • Wedding or funeral? : the Family Protection Act and the bride's consent
  • Ain't I a woman? : domesticity's other
  • Exhuming the beloved, revising the past : lawlessness and postmodernism
  • A metaphor for civil society? : marriage and "rights talk" in the Khtamī period
  • Conclusion : a severed head? : Iranian literary modernity in transnational context.