The pearl of Dari : poetry and personhood among young Afghans in Iran

The pearl of Dari : poetry and personhood among young Afghans in Iran / Zuzanna Olszewska.

The Pearl of Dari takes readers into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle of poets and intellectuals who make up the 'Pearl of Dari' cultural organization. Dari is the name by which the Persian language is known...

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Main Author: Olszewska, Zuzanna, 1978- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Series:Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
Subjects:
Moʻasseseh-ye Farhangi-ye Dorr-e Dari.
Moʻasseseh-ye Farhangi-ye Dorr-e Dari
Afghans > Iran > Intellectual life.
Afghans > Iran > Social conditions.
Refugees > Afghanistan.
Dari poetry > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Afghans > Social conditions
Refugees
Afghanistan
Iran
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
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Table of Contents:
  • Border crossings and fractured selves : a history of the Afghan presence in Iran
  • The melancholy modern : the rise of a refugee intelligentsia
  • Afghan literary organizations in postrevolutionary Iran
  • The social lives of poets and poetry
  • Modern love : poetry, companionate marriage, and recrafting the self
  • "When your darun speaks to you" : ethics of revelation and concealment in lyric poetry.

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