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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Main Author: Moosavi, Amir (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]
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.