Iran: The Rebirth of a Nation - 9781137592408

In this unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi provides a provocative account of Iran in its current resurrection as a mighty regional power. Through a careful study of contemporary Iranian history in its political, literary, and artistic dimensions, Dabashi decouples the idea of Iran from its colonial linkage to the clich? notion of ôthe nation-state,ö and then demonstrates how an ôaesthetic intuition of transcendenceö has enabled it to be re-conceived as a powerful nation. This rebirth has allowed for repressed political and cultural forces to surface, redefining the nationÆs future beyond its fictive postcolonial borders and autonomous from the state apparatus that wishes but fails to rule it. IranÆs sovereignty, Dabashi argues, is inaugurated through an active and open-ended self-awareness of the nationÆs history and recent political and aesthetic instantiations, as it has been sustained by successive waves of revolutionary prose, poetry, and visual and performing arts performed categorically against the censorial will of the state.

• | Author: Hamid Dabashi
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 358 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 1137592400
• | ISBN-13: 9781137592408