Reading a medieval romance in post-revolutionary Tehran. Hushang Golshiri’s Novella King of the Benighted
Reading a medieval romance in post-revolutionary Tehran. Hushang Golshiri’s Novella King of the Benighted
Author(s): Renata Rusek-KowalskaSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Recent History (1900 till today), 6th to 12th Centuries, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: hypertextuality; Wiedererzählen; Iranian classical literature; Iranian modern literature; political allegory;
Summary/Abstract: In his modern novella, King of the Benighted (Shāh-e siyāh-pushān), an Iranian writer, Hushang Golshiri grafts a twelfth-century Nezāmi’s epic, Seven Beauties (Haft Peykar), into an Iranian contemporary context, which strongly implies that the fate of Iranian revolution of 1979 has been foretold by a medieval tale.
Journal: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
- Issue Year: 11/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 41-52
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English