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A revolution in rhyme : poetic co-option under the Islamic Republic.

A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran. Through a compelling chronological and thematic framework, Shams presents fres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shams, Fatemeh, 1983-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2021.
Series:Oxford Oriental monographs.
Subjects:
Poetics > Political aspects.
Poétique > Aspect politique.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Consonants
  • Vowels
  • Other Rules
  • Introduction: "Awakening the Nation": Poetry and Power in Modern Iran
  • The Origins of Poetry and Patronage in Iran
  • The Label of "Official Literature": Advantages and Limitations
  • The Question of Literary Merit
  • Existing Scholarship and Its Limitations
  • Mapping Poetic Continuity and Rupture: A Conceptual Framework
  • The Structure of the Book
  • Poetry and the 1979 Revolution
  • Chapter 1: Rethinking the Islamic Republican Canon
  • Two Generations, Ten Poets
  • The First Generation
  • Second Generation
  • Unravelling the Ethics of a Canon
  • Chapter 2: "Surgery of the Soul": Introducing the Howzeh
  • The Beginnings of Cultural Control
  • The Birth of the Howzeh
  • Co-option into the State Ideological Apparatus
  • Following the Rival's Fashion
  • A Jostle for Control and the Removal of Thought
  • The Absence of Creative Integrity
  • A Sinister Side to State Control
  • One Voice, Many Writers
  • The Upswing in Official Poetry
  • Chapter 3: Returning to the Roots: The Dark and Light of the Village
  • The Political Motive for Nostalgia
  • Defining the Village
  • Politicizing the Village
  • The Role of the Rural Revolutionary
  • The "Official" Village: The "Gaze that Tastes of Milk"
  • "Machine-Made Bread"
  • "Simple, Like a Village": The Rise of a Rustic Utopia
  • From Noble Peasant to Migrant Margin-Dweller
  • The Fading Village
  • Reviving the Village
  • The Danger of Collective Greenwashing
  • Chapter 4: A War to Remember (1): Decoding the Poetic Violence of War
  • Origins of "Devotional" Combative Poetics
  • Devotional Militant Poetic Forms
  • Origins of the Mystic-Combative Poetics
  • The Mystification of Death
  • In Search of a Different Cure
  • Chapter 5: A War to Remember (2): The Other Face of War
  • Writing in the Warzone
  • Writing in the War-Scarred Streets
  • Writing in a Wounded Alphabet
  • Writing against a Common Enemy
  • Writing for the Children of War
  • Writing the Real Message of War
  • Chapter 6: Loss and Nostalgia: Official Poetry in Post-War Chaos
  • The Devastation of War, the Balm of Nostalgia
  • The Loss of the State Patriarch
  • The Loss of Utopia and the Rise of Protest Poetry
  • The Rise of the Reform Movement: Re-envisioning the Self, Religion, and Ideology
  • Chapter 7: Inventing a Courtly Tradition: Poetry and Power in Khamenei's Islamic Republic
  • Passing the Poetry Baton
  • From Bookworm to the Ruling Ayatollah
  • The Search for Political Legitimacy: Poetry as a New Form of Political Covenant
  • Instating a New Courtly Poetic Tradition
  • Annual Poetry Ceremonies and the Poetics of Conversion
  • Official Poets and the Question of Social Mobility
  • Characteristics of Official Verse
  • Searching the Past to Rule the Present