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"Literature, images, and metaphor are often where most of a nation's history are embedded. A study of modern Kurdish literature highlights a fealty to a rich literary past and a rich source of historiography. The articles in this volume address many facets of the literary in the Kurdish world: proverbs, feminist literature, and resistance in literary works, poetry, prose, etc. In the end, the volume offers a general paradigm of the complex literary framework of the Kurds, their continuous resistance for nationhood in their history, and their modern reinventing of the self. An overview of some of the works in modern Kurdish literature points to both asymmetry and commonality in comparative literary studies. These works highight the thematic reach in Kurdish literary studies."--Publisher's website.

• Introduction
• Qissa 1 : the Ingenious Farkhanda and the two conditions : translation of Char Gulshan by Rai Beni Narayan
• Qissa 2 : the adventures of a soldier : translation of Qissa Sipahizada by Khushdil Kiratpuri
• Qissa 3 : Chhabili the innkeeper : translation of Chhabili Bhattiyari by unknown author
• Qissa 4 : Azar Shah and Saman Rukh Bano : translation of Nau Aaeen-e Hindi by Mehr Chnd Khatri Mehr
• Qissa 5 : the victim of malice : translation of Qissa-e Maqtool-e Jafa by Amiruddin Khan Maani
• Qissa 6 : a girl named King Agar : translation of Qissa Agar o Gul by Saadat Khan Nasir
• About the authors and narrators

The pioneering Iranian poet, writer, and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-1967) was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in Iran. Five decades after her tragic death, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. Highlighting her literary and cinematic innovation, this volume examines the unique place Farrokhzad occupies both inside Iran and beyond, in the Iranian diasporic imagination and through the numerous translations of her poetry into English. This volume is a fitting and authoritative tribute to the work of a remarkable woman which will introduce and explain her legacy for a twenty-first-century audience. This second edition includes two new chapters which explore a travelogue Farrokhzad wrote during her time in Italy, and an examination of Farrokhzad's influence on the Afghan female poet, Sarahat Rowshani--back cover.

""Whenever he told lies, the birds would fly away. It had been that way since he was a child. Whenever he told a lie, something strange would happen." So begins Bachtyar Ali's The Last Pomegranate, a phantasmagoric warren of fact, fabrication, and mystical allegory, set in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's rule and Iraq's Kurdish conflict. Muzafar-i Subhdam, a peshmerga fighter, has spent the last twenty-one years imprisoned in a desert yearning for his son, Saryas, who was only a few days old when Muzafar was captured. Upon his release, Muzafar begins a frantic search, only to learn that Saryas was one of three identical boys who became enmeshed in each other's lives as war mutilated the region"-- Provided by publisher

The book examines the works of Akshay Kumar Dutta (1820-1886), who can be seen as ideologically inhabiting the cusp between religion and rationalism - the two most crucial avenues of debate and discussion in the public sphere in nineteenth-century Bengal. While nineteenth-century Bengal has been an important discourse within South Asian history, major figures of reform such as Rammohun Roy, Debendranath Tagore, Iswarchandra Vidyasagar, or Keshub Chunder Sen have generally been the focus. The book attempts to rescue Dutta from the clutches of academic amnesia, and to locate him as one of the foundational figures of intellectual refashioning among the common albeit educated public in nineteenth-century Bengal

• Histories : from Tazkirah to literary history
• Erotics : from bawdy to bashfulness
• Origin myths : indigeneity and hybridity in national narratives
• Print : typography, orthography, punctuation.

"Tracing the emergence of literary history, Alexander Jabbari shows how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared literary heritage to produce a 'Persianate modernity' in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using both Urdu and Persian-language sources, Jabbari examines how intellectual exchange across the region made national cultures"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover
• Mirabai
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Transliteration and Dates
• Introduction: In Search of Mirabai
• 1. Embodying Devotion in a Woman's Body: Mirabai among the Saints
• 2. Participation and Transformation: Mira as Rapjut Renouncer, Varkari Devotee, and Pativrata of God
• 3. History, Heroism, and the Politics of Identity: Mirabai in Nineteenth-​Century Colonial India
• 4. Weaver Woman and Lover Extraordinaire: Romance and Resistance in Rural Rajasthan

• 5. Mobilizing Mirabai, Mobilizing Women in the Struggle for Independence
• 6. Cultural Icon for a Nation in the Making
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Index

"Sélection de poèmes de femmes kurdes originaires de Syrie, d'Irak, de Turquie et d'Iran, évoquant la guerre, l'exil mais aussi l'amour, la nature ou la vie. Elles y dévoilent une même aspiration à la dignité, à la liberté et à la paix. Les textes ont été initialement écrits dans des langues kurdes, en arabe ou en turc."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: a guide for everyone
• Situating wisdom
• 'Attar and Persian literary Sufism
• Talk therapy: poetry as spiritual medicine
• The Hoopoe on the pulpit
• Making texts speak
• Allegory and ascent
• Anecdotal disruptions
• Conclusion: Towards a didactic performativity