Persian Literature as World Literature - Paperback

by Mostafa Abedinifard (Editor), Thomas Oliver Beebee (Editor), Omid Azadibougar (Editor)

Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpreting practices in Persianate literary scholarship, Persian Literature as World Literature makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature-as transnational, worldly texts that expand beyond local and national penchants. Working through an idea of world literature that is both cosmopolitan and critical of any monologic view on globalization, the contributors to this volume revisit the early and contemporary circulation of Persianate literatures across neighboring and distant cultures, and seek innovative ways of developing a transnational Persian literary studies, engaging in constructive dialogues with the global forces surrounding, and shaping, Persianate societies and cultures.

Author Biography

Mostafa Abedinifard is Assistant Professor without Review of Persian Literary Culture and Civilization at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Omid Azadibougar is Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at Hunan Normal University, China. He is the author of World Literature and Hedayat's Poetics of Modernity (2020) and The Persian Novel: Ideology, Fiction and Form in the Periphery (2014).

Amirhossein Vafa is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Shiraz University, Iran. He is the author of Recasting American and Persian Literatures (2016).