Projektnummer

0060642

Zusammenfassung

"Dust That Never Settled: Ideology, Ambivalence, Disenchantment and the Legacy of the Iran-Iraq War in Arabic and Persian Fiction" is a comparative study of how Iraqi and Iranian writers and filmmakers have treated the Iraq-Iran War, from the eruption of the conflict, in 1980, to the present day. In bringing together Arabic and Persian fiction from this period, this project creates a new framework for the study of the two modern literary traditions (Arabic and Persian) and the modern literatures of the Middle East through the lens of the war and its politically contentious legacy. It a...