Call Him Javid: Limning a National Trope
This chapter marks the beginning of the search for Fedallah’s proleptic narrative. From the account of contemporary Parsi life in Mumbai in Mistry’s Family Matters to limning a national trope in early twentieth-century Tehran in Fassih’s The Story of Javi
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Recasting American and Persian Literatures Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch
Amirhossein Vafa
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Amirhossein Vafa
Recasting American and Persian Literatures Local Histories and Formative Geographies from Moby-Dick to Missing Soluch
Amirhossein Vafa Shiraz University Shiraz, Iran
Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World ISBN 978-3-319-40468-4 ISBN 978-3-319-40469-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40469-1
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For transliteration of Persian, this book adheres to the Library of Congress scheme for romanization without diacritical marks. Proper names of certain authors (Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Esmail Fassih) and literary characters (Mergan, Umm Saad) are transcribed following the English translations of corresponding texts. Unless otherwise noted, translations of Persianlanguage sources into English are mine, including th
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