Persian Literature as World Literature

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Dates
Introduction: Decolonizing a Peripheral Literature Amirhossein Vafa, Omid Azadibougar, and Mostafa Abedinifard
Part One Literary Worldliness
	1 The Birth of the German Ghazal out of the Spirit of World Literature
Amir Irani-Tehrani
	2 Otherworld Literature: Parahuman Pasts in Classical Persian
Historiography and Epic Sam Lasman
	3 Globalization in Pre- and Postrevolutionary Iranian Literature:
A Comparative Study of Authors inside and outside Iran
Naghmeh Esmaeilpour
	4 Contemporary Persian Literature and Digital Humanities
Laetitia Nanquette
Part Two Traveling Texts
	5 Genres without Borders: Reading Modern Iranian Literature beyond
“Center” and “Periphery” Marie Ostby
	6 Persian Epistemes in Naim Frashëri’s Albanian Poetry Abdulla Rexhepi
	7 Ecumenism and Globalism in the Reception of Ferdowsi and His
Shahnameh: Evidence from the “Baysonqori Preface” Olga M. Davidson
	8 Cats and Dogs, Manliness, and Misogyny: On the Sindbad-nameh
as World Literature Alexandra Hoffmann
	9 Cinema Joins Forces with Literature to Form Canon: The Cinematic
Afterlife of Saʿedi’s “The Cow” as World Literature Adineh Khojastehpour
Part Three The Transnational Turn
	10 Until a Shirt Blossoms Red: Proto-Third Worldism in Ahmad Shamlou’s
Manifesto Levi Thompson
	11 Translocal Dreams of Justice and Mobility: Fariba Vafi’s Tarlan and Ali
Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din Gay Jennifer Breyley
	12 The Purloined Letter: Reconsidering Simin Daneshvar’s Dagh-e Nang
and the Politics of Translation in the Landscape of World Literature
Amy Motlagh
	13 World Literature as Persian Literature Navid Naderi
Notes on Contributors
Index