Dust that never settles : literary afterlives of the Iran-Iraq war /
"Lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war fought between two states in the twentieth century. It marked a period that began just after a revolutionary government in Iran became an Islamic Republic and Saddam Hussein consolidated power in Ira...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. War, writing, and comparison
- Mobilizing literature
- Representations of survival and loss
- War front apocrypha
- Writer's home front wars
- Ghosts of the violent past
- Conclusion. Cultural afterlives of 1979.