Insurgent, poet, mystic, sectarian : the four masks of an eastern postmodernism /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | SUNY series in global modernity.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Modernity, age of extremity
- 1. Theorizing the insurgent: otherless subjectivity, radical coldness, and the East-West matrix
- 2. Images of resistance: media, modernity, and the machine within Iranian revolutionary ideology
- 3. The poetics of urban violence: the night raid, the martyred body, and the execution spectacle
- 4. Will to chaos: Iranian avant-garde literature and western thought
- 5. Vision, disappearance, and the soundscape: new wave Iranian cinema and the postmodern pack
- 6. Sectarianism I: And they shall dream of the enemy
- 7. Sectarianism II: Final delineations of the sect.