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The Pearl of Dari : Poetry and Personhood among Young Afghans in Iran / Zuzanna Olszewska.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Public cultures of the Middle East and North AfricaPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 264 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253017635
  • 0253017637
Other title:
  • Poetry and personhood among young Afghans in Iran
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pearl of DariDDC classification:
  • 305.891/593055 23
LOC classification:
  • DS269.A34 O57 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Border Crossings and Fractured Selves : A History of the Afghan Presence in Iran -- The Melancholy Modern : The Rise of a Refugee Intelligentsia -- Afghan Literary Organizations in Postrevolutionary Iran -- The Social Lives of Poets and Poetry -- Modern Love : Poetry, Companionate Marriage, and Recrafting the Self -- "When Your Darun Speaks to You" : Ethics of Revelation and Concealment in Lyric Poetry.
Summary: The Pearl of Dari takes readers into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle of poets and intellectuals who make up the 'Pearl of Dari' cultural organization. Dari is the name by which the Persian language is known in Afghanistan. Afghan immigrants in Iran, refugees from the Soviet war in Afghanistan, are marginalized and restricted to menial jobs and lower-income neighborhoods. Ambitious and creative refugee youth have taken to writing poetry to tell their story as a group and to improve their prospects for a better life. At the same time, they are altering the ancient tradition of Persian love poetry by promoting greater individualism in realms such as gender and marriage. Zuzanna Olszewska offers compelling insights into the social life of poetry in an urban, Middle Eastern setting largely unknown in the West.
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Border Crossings and Fractured Selves : A History of the Afghan Presence in Iran -- The Melancholy Modern : The Rise of a Refugee Intelligentsia -- Afghan Literary Organizations in Postrevolutionary Iran -- The Social Lives of Poets and Poetry -- Modern Love : Poetry, Companionate Marriage, and Recrafting the Self -- "When Your Darun Speaks to You" : Ethics of Revelation and Concealment in Lyric Poetry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.

Print version record.

The Pearl of Dari takes readers into the heart of Afghan refugee life in the Islamic Republic of Iran through a rich ethnographic portrait of the circle of poets and intellectuals who make up the 'Pearl of Dari' cultural organization. Dari is the name by which the Persian language is known in Afghanistan. Afghan immigrants in Iran, refugees from the Soviet war in Afghanistan, are marginalized and restricted to menial jobs and lower-income neighborhoods. Ambitious and creative refugee youth have taken to writing poetry to tell their story as a group and to improve their prospects for a better life. At the same time, they are altering the ancient tradition of Persian love poetry by promoting greater individualism in realms such as gender and marriage. Zuzanna Olszewska offers compelling insights into the social life of poetry in an urban, Middle Eastern setting largely unknown in the West.

English.

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