Touba and the Meaning of Night

Autori

• Šahrnūš Pārsīpūr

Parametri

• 367 pagine
• 13 ore di lettura

• Femminismo
• Iran
• Narrativa
• Prosa storica
• XX Secolo

Maggiori informazioni sul libro

From a distinctly Iranian perspective, Touba and the Meaning of Night reveals ongoing tension between rationalism and mysticism, tradition and modernity, male and female, East and West. Speaking in an idiom unique to its author and indicative of a new tradition in Persian women's writing, the epic also defies Western stereotypes of Iranian women and Western expectations of Iranian literary form

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2006

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