The pearl of Dari : poetry and personhood among young Afghans in Iran /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Olszewska, Zuzanna, 1978- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Series:	Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.
Subjects:	Afghans > Iran > Intellectual life. Afghans > Iran > Social conditions. Moʻasseseh-ye Farhangi-ye Dorr-e Dari. Refugees > Afghanistan. Dari poetry > Social aspects.

Table of 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.