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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
Contributors
1 Introduction
PART 1
2 Rival texts: modern Persian prose fiction and the myth of the founding father
3 Reactionary interbellum literature and the demonic in Iran: ʿAlavī and Hidāyat
4 Linguistic realism and modernity: the ontology of the poetic from Suhrawardī to Ṣāʾib
5 A predestined break from the past: Shiʿr-i Naw, history, and hermeneutics
PART 2
6 Intimating Tehran: the figure of the prostitute in Iranian popular literature, 1920s–1970s
7 Classical Persian canons of the revolutionary press: Abū al-Qāsim Lāhūtī’s circles in Istanbul and Moscow
8 Pneumatics of Blackness: Nāṣir Taqvā’ī’s Bād-i Jin and modernity’s anthropological drive
Index

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Persian Literature and Modernity

Persian Literature and Modernity recasts the history of modern literature in Iran by elucidating the bonds between the classical tradition and modernity and exploring textual, generic and discursive formations through heterodoxical investigations. This is first done through the rehabilitation of concepts embedded in tradition, including the munāzirah (debate), Ahrīman (the demonic), tajarrud (radical aloneness) and nāriz̤ āyatī (discontent). Following this are broader structural and processual treatments, including the emergence of the genre of the social novel, the international dimension of Persian and Persianate canon formation, and the development of salvage ethnography and anthropological discourse in Iran. Covering literary experiments from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, the chapters in this volume make a case for stepping outside the bounds of orthodox literary scholarship in Iranian Studies with its associated political and orientalist determinants in order to provide a more nuanced

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DHAKA MAYORS: YEAR ONE

Road digging monsoon madness looms ahead is also contributing to the crisis by not ensuring the repair of the roads they dug as part of a mega project to install new water supply lines all over the city. The Dhaka Tribune spoke to different locals in Dhanmondi, Jhigatola, Kalabagan, Kathalbagan, Rajabazar, Sukrabad, Indira Road, Nakhalpara, Mirpur, Gendaria and Mirpur. They all alleged that the poor condition of roads has become part of their daily headache. City residents also expressed pessimism, saying they believed that authorities would keep on

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Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq and Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon have completed their first year in office, facing various challenges and initiating many short- and long-term schemes to turn Dhaka into a clean, green, and liveable city. Dhaka Tribune’s Abu Hayat Mahmud explores the ongoing roadworks projects in