{"product_id":"the-triumph-of-irans-national-narrative-kamran-talattof-ebook","title":"The Triumph of Iran's National Narrative","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eThis book traces the long struggle between Iran's national narrative and the competing ideological metanarratives, Islamic and Marxist, that sought to displace it, culminating in the 1979 Revolution, when the national narrative appeared defeated. Yet through social and literary resistance, it gradually regained hegemony, sustained by Persian literature, pre-Islamic civilizational heritage, and civic values that persisted beneath ideological domination. Through their novels, women writers exposed the mechanisms of female subjugation while reclaiming Iran's literary legacy, civic values, and cultural pride- helping forge what this book defines as civil society nationalism: a coherent, affirmative, and organic nationalist movement. This book situates these novels within a broader constellation of cultural resistance: \u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;\"\u003esuppressed arts, protest slogans, diaspora media,\u003c\/span\u003e and the transformative energy of successive uprisings, from the reform era of 1997-2005 to the Women, Life, Freedom movement of 2022 and the Lion and Sun uprising of 2025. Together, these developments reveal how cultural memory does not merely sustain identity- it reorganizes political imagination, transforming historical continuity into collective aspiration. Theoretically, the book makes a case for narrative studies over discourse analysis as the sharper framework for understanding both the 1979 Revolution and Iran's ongoing political transformation. A national narrative is, at its core, a story: layered, dynamic, and enduring- and Iran's, though periodically interrupted, has never been extinguished. Drawing on literary studies, narrative theory, and political history, this book provides new perspectives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-indent: 9.0pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"color: #ee0000;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-indent: 9.0pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e“A triumph for a distinguished literary historian and critic of Persian literature… a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003emust read for modern literary critics of Persian literature.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: right; line-height: normal;\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eHoma Katouzian (University of Oxford)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-indent: 4.5pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-indent: 4.5pt; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e“This splendid study is a must for anyone who is interested in Iran, her politics, her \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003erich modern literary tradition, and the complexities of everyday life… It is rich in its \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eselection of topics, innovative in analysis, and perceptive in contextualizing social \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003edynamics within pivotal historical events.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: right; text-indent: 4.5pt; line-height: normal;\" align=\"right\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eAsghar Seyed-Gohrab (Utrecht University)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kamran Talattof","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55146002645319,"sku":"9789819593347","price":149.79,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0920\/5455\/2903\/files\/the-triumph-of-irans-national-narrative-ebook-cover.webp?v=1790226071","url":"https:\/\/www.cinebuch.de\/products\/the-triumph-of-irans-national-narrative-kamran-talattof-ebook","provider":"CineBuch","version":"1.0","type":"link"}