Kamran Rastegar: 2 books
Surviving Images
Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Surviving Images explores the prominent role of cinema in the development of cultural memory around war and conflict in colonial and postcolonial contexts. It does so through a study of three historical eras: the colonial period, the national-independence struggle, and the postcolonial. Beginning...
Literary Modernity Between the Middle East and Europe
Textual Transactions in 19th Century Arabic, English and Persian Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
Providing a broad ranging and unique comparative study of the development of English, Persian and Arabic literature, this book looks at their interrelations with specific reference to modernity, nationalism and social value. It gives a strong theoretical underpinning to the development of Middle Eastern literature in the modern period.