At the height of literary nationalisms in the twentieth century, leftist internationalists from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and the Soviet East bonded over their shared love of the classical Persian verses of Hafiz and Khayyam. At writers' congresses and in communist literary journals, th...

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Main Author:	Hodgkin, Samuel 1986- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2023
Series:	Cambridge studies in world literature
Subjects:	Persian literature / History and criticism Persian literature / Appreciation / Soviet Union Persian literature / Appreciation / Middle East Persian literature / Appreciation / South Asia Communism and literature Politics in literature
Online Access:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
Summary:	At the height of literary nationalisms in the twentieth century, leftist internationalists from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, and the Soviet East bonded over their shared love of the classical Persian verses of Hafiz and Khayyam. At writers' congresses and in communist literary journals, they affirmed their friendship and solidarity with lyric ghazals and ruba'iyat. Persianate poetry became the cultural commons for a distinctively Eastern internationalism, shaping national literatures in the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and South Asia. By the early Cold War, the literary entanglement between Persianate culture and communism had established models for cultural decolonization that would ultimately outlast the Soviet imperial project. In the archive of literature produced under communism in Persian, Tajik, Dari, Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Armenian, and Russian, this book finds a vital alternative to Western globalized world literature
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2023)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xi, 298 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009411622
DOI:	10.1017/9781009411622