Iranian Writers Uncensored
Freedom, Democracy and the Word in Contemporary Iran
“[The book] does much to dispel the idea of Iran as a one-dimensional society of religious fanatics…”
Zach Pontz, Mightier than the Sword: Shiva Rahbaran’s Iranian Writers Uncensored,in THE MILLIONS, April 5, 2012
“Rabharan proposes two points with which to approach this study of literature in contemporary Iran: how post-revolution Iran has affected Iranian literature and the role of literature on Iranian society itself. But the intellectual depth of the conversations quickly exceeded her initial intent, and considerable territory is covered, beginning with the very nature of the Persian language and proceeding to cover issues as complex as Iran’s resistance to modernization and the possibility of Iran one day embracing the Western values that, at present, their ruling Ayatollahs so vehemently oppose…”
Zach Pontz, Mightier than the Sword: Shiva Rahbaran’s Iranian Writers Uncensored,in THE MILLIONS, April 5, 2012
“According to Shiva Rahbaran, editor of this fascinating collection of interviews with contemporary Iranian writers, ‘poets and writers have always been admired and feared for the power of their pen by Iran’s rulers’ …
[Thus the book] is particularly timely, given the recent uprisings in the Arab world, and raises interesting questions about how art and literature reflect or are changed by monumental events.”
Lucy Popescu, review of Iranian Writers Uncensored, in THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, July 20, 2012
“[The book] humanizes a conflict that consists, for the majority of us, of nothing more than a few choice sound bites and several minutes of TV footage.”
Zach Pontz, Mightier than the Sword: Shiva Rahbaran’s Iranian Writers Uncensored,in THE MILLIONS, April 5, 2012
“An informative book on the post-revolutionary Iranian cinema and its development”
Zach Pontz, Mightier than the Sword: Shiva Rahbaran’s Iranian Writers Uncensored,in THE MILLIONS, April 5, 2012
About the book
The 1979 Revolution in Iran was meant to bring freedom, hope, and prosperity, but the writers interviewed by Shiva Rahbaran speak of humiliation, despotism, war, and poverty. These interviews demonstrate their belief in literature’s power to open pockets of freedom in society.
Book details
3. April 2012 by Shiva Rahbaran
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press; 1 edition (3 April 2012)
Language: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1564786889
ISBN-13: 978-1564786883