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My Bird
In this powerful story of life, love, and the demands of marriage and motherhood, Fariba Vafi gives readers a portrait of one woman’s struggle to adapt to the complexity of life in modern Iran. The narrator, a housewife and young mother living in a low-income neighborhood in Tehran, dwells upon her husband Amir’s desire to immigrate to Canada. His peripatetic lifestyle underscores her own sense of inertia. When he finally slips away, the young woman is forced to raise the children alone and care for her ailing mother. Vafi’s brilliant minimalist style showcases the narrator’s reticence and passivity. Brief chapters and spare prose provide the ideal architecture for the character’s ...
Kellervogel
Eine Stadt im Iran, voller Stimmen und Gerüche. Eine junge Frau wird von ihrem Ehemann bedrängt, nach Kanada auszuwandern. Als er nach Baku geht, bleibt sie mit den beiden Kindern zurück. Mit aller Macht versucht sie, die Anforderungen des Alltags und die Gespenster der Vergangenheit zu bewältigen: die Konflikte mit der zänkischen Mutter, den einsamen Tod des Vaters, die Erniedrigungen durch den Ehemann. Jenseits aller klischeehaften Orientalismen lässt Fariba Vafi die Ich-Erzählerin von der Auflösung ihrer Welt erzählen. Zwischen Küche und Keller, ihrem allegorischen Gefängnis, öffnet sich ein Raum für die ehrliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Selbstverständnis der Frauen im heutigen Iran. Mit den Mitteln feiner Ironie und Poesie ist Fariba Vafi ein fesselndes Psychogramm gelungen, das die großen, universellen Fragen des Lebens stellt: nach Schmerz und Geborgenheit, Tod und Liebe.
Temporary Marriage in Iran
An examination of temporary marriage, or sigheh, in Iran through the representation of women within modern novels, short stories and cinema.
Alive and Kicking
Alive and Kicking This collection of twenty short stories by ten leading Iranian women writers introduces many of them to English-speaking audiences for the first time. These are successful authors whose books are widely read and appreciated by Iranian readers. Some have won awards and many of their books have been reprinted multiple times.These writers live in different parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran and work in a wide range of professions. They write under difficult circumstances since all their works are scrutinised by the Ministry of Guidance before permission to publish is granted, often after substantial rewriting, cutting and editing. Getting...
Voices From Iran
Mahnaz Kousha interviewed fifteen Iranian women in Tehran who originally came from cities and towns throughout Iran. The youngest was 38, the eldest in her 50s. Extensive excerpts from their dialogues form the heart of this remarkable book. With admirable candor the women explore their relationships with their mothers, fathers, husbands, and children. They reflect upon the institutions of courtship and marriage and address issues of childcare, housework, and women's employment. They talk openly about their concerns, ambitions, and frustrations. Finally, they discuss everyday personal problems and the solutions they devise to cope with such difficulties. Offset by telling commentary, these conversations offer significant firsthand insights into the life experiences of the modern Iranian woman and her brave search for identity. Because it covers previously uncharted ground, this volume fills a sizable gap in the study of gender and family relationships in Iran. Abundant footnotes on similar studies in the United States and other countries not only add sociological richness, but also make the book relevant beyond Iran and the Middle East.
An den Regen
Wer sich mit zeitgenössischer iranischer Literatur befasst, sollte das Genre Kurzgeschichte nicht unbeachtet lassen. Denn in Kurzgeschichten wie auch in der Lyrik lassen sich, anders als in Romanen, kritische Entwicklungen oder Begebenheiten in der Gesellschaft darstellen, ohne viel erklären zu müssen und dadurch die Aufmerksamkeit der Zensurbehörde zu wecken. Wie auch in ihren Romanen sind die zentralen Themen der Kurzgeschichten Faribā Vafis die intimen Alltagserfahrungen von Frauen, die versuchen, unabhängig von gesellschaftlichen Beschränkungen ihren eigenen Weg zu gehen. Dank ihrer fließenden Sprache gelingt es Vafi, eine große Nähe zu den Charakteren zu erzeugen, die sich auch in der kongenialen Übersetzung uneingeschränkt vermittelt. Immer wieder behandeln ihre Geschichten Spannungen zwischen Tradition und Progressivität, zwischen Einsamkeit und dem Wunsch nach Unabhängigkeit. So zeichnet Vafi in ihren Werken die Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen nach, die universell ist und jenseits sprachlicher und gesellschaftlicher Grenzen bei der Leserschaft Resonanz findet.
Abundance from the Desert
Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly of 500-1250 c.e., it features original translations and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems from a variety of genres. The poems are presented chronologically, each situated within a specific historical and literary context. Together, the selected poems suggest the range and depth of classical Arabic poetic expression; read in sequence, they suggest the gradual evolution of a tradition. Moving beyond a mere chronicle, Farrin outlines a new approach to appreciating classical Arabic poetry based on an aw...
The Cultural Sociology of Reading
This book showcases recent work about reading and books in sociology and the humanities across the globe. From different standpoints and within the broad perspectives within the cultural sociology of reading, the eighteen chapters examine a range of reading practices, genres, types of texts, and reading spaces. They cover the Anglophone area of the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia; the transnational, multilingual space constituted by the readership of the Colombian novel One Hundred Years of Solitude; nineteenth-century Chile; twentieth-century Czech Republic; twentieth century Swahili readings in East Africa; contemporary Iran; and China during the cultural revolution and the...
Tree of Pearls, Queen of Egypt
Shajar al-Durr, known as Tree of Pearls, was one of the most famous Arab queens and the only woman in the medieval Arab world to rule in her own name. Her narrative is one element of a much larger story of the unsettled political climate of thirteenth-century Egypt. In this eponymous novel, Zaydan charts the fall of the Ayyubid Dynasty and the rise of the Mamluke Dynasty through the adventures of Tree of Pearls and Rukn al- Din Baybars, a young Mamluke commander who eventually triumphs as the ruler of Egypt. War, political intrigue, murder, and a female ruler who was born a slave combine for an irresistible story, while Zaydan’s keen observations on royal politics and subverted gender roles offer readers a richly detailed glimpse of the cultural milieu of the time. Tree of Pearls, originally published in 1914, is the last in a famous series of historical novels written by Zaydan, an accomplished historian whose books continue to be read widely in the Arab world today. Selim’s fluid translation introduces an English audience to one of the Arab world’s influential writers.
