Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Nasrin Rahimieh, Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Nasrin Rahimieh

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780755600670
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780755600687
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Biographies
• Index: Literature

The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Five decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament of the contemporary Iranian woman, at once subjected to long-held traditional practices and influenced by newly introduced modern social sensibilities. Highlighting her literary and cinematic innovation, this volume examines the unique place Farrokhzad occupies in Iran, both among modern Persian poets in general and as an Iranian woman writer in particular. The authors also explore Farrokhzad's appeal outside Iran in the Iranian diasporic imagination and through the numerous translations of her poetry into English. It is a fitting and authoritative tribute to the work of a remarkable woman which will introduce and explain her legacy for a 21st-century audience.
This second edition includes two new chapters which explore a travelogue Farrokhzad wrote during her time in Italy, and an examination of Farrokhzad's influence on the writings of the Afghan female poet Laila Sarahat Rowshani.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Note on Transliteration
• Contributors
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction to the First Edition
• Chapter 1 Of the Sins of Forugh Farrokhzād
• Chapter 2 Men and Women Together: Love, Marriage and Gender in Forugh Farrokhzād’s Asir
• Chapter 3 Places of Confinement, Liberation, and Decay: The Home and the Garden in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzād
• Chapter 4 Forugh Farrokhzād’s Romance with Her Muse
• Chapter 5 Bewildered Mirror: Mirror, Self and World in the Poems of Forugh Farrokhzād
• Chapter 6 Personal Rebellion and Social Revolt in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzād: Challenging the Assumptions
• Chapter 7 Garden in Motion: the Esthetic of the Space Between
• Chapter 8 Forugh Farrokhzād’s Apocalyptic Visions
• Chapter 9 Capturing the Abject of the Nation in The House is Black
• Chapter 10 The House is Black: A Timeless Visual Essay
• Chapter 11 Forugh Farrokhzād as Translator of Modern German Poetry: Observations About the Anthology Marg-e man ruzi
• Chapter 12 Alien Rebirths of ‘Another Birth’
• Chapter 13 Re-Writing Forugh: Writers, Intellectuals, Artists and Farrokhzād’s Legacy in the Iranian Diaspora
• Chapter 14 Cargo, Chickpeas, and Cobblestones: The Textures of Memory in Forugh Farrokhzād’s Travelogue Dar diyāri digar
• Chapter 15 Mourning the Death of Tulips: Love, War, and Despair in the Poetry of Laila Sarahat Rowshani (1958–2004)
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright