THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL IDEAS UPON IRANIAN PROSE AND NON-FICTION IN THE 60S AND 70S
THE INFLUENCE OF EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL IDEAS UPON IRANIAN PROSE AND NON-FICTION IN THE 60S AND 70S

Summary/Abstract: Following the coup d’etat of 1953 and the trauma caused by it gradually in the 60s and 70s in Iran a new subjectivity, a new vision for the Iranian subject of modernity emerged. Iranians were called by their intellectuals to overcome the trauma, which was called “occidentosis”, a state in which everything that they try to create and produce is “stilborn”. They were asked to no longer accept predestination and quietism, developing courage instead, becoming militant and finding their own, authentic way of encountering technologies and the West. This paper systematically demonstrates that the new subjectivity, which can be seen in the Iranian prose and non-fiction in the 60s and 70s is heavily influenced by European intellectual ideas.

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