Mohaghegh Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian

The Four Masks of an Eastern Postmodernism
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5612-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Global Modernity

Discusses how contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern thinkers and artists are forging a new postmodern vision.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Modernity—Age of Extremity

Part I. Insurgent

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

Part II. Poet

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

Part III. Mystic

5. Vision, Disappearance, and the Soundscape: New-Wave Iranian Cinema and the Postmodern Pack

Part IV. Sectarian

6. Sectarianism I: And They Shall Dream of the Enemy

7. Sectarianism II: Final Delineations of the Sect

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College and author of Silence in Middle Eastern and Western Thought: The Radical Unspoken; The Writing of Violence in the Middle East: Inflictions; and New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East: The Chaotic Imagination.