Soviet Persian Anthologies: Transnational, Multinational, International

In scholarship on post-Persianate literary modernity, the emergence of the new institution of literature is often conflated with the delimitation and reification of national cultures as different manifestations of a single process. This article examines three anthologies of Persian literature from t...

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Published in:Iranian studies 2022-07, Vol.55 (3), p.631-651
Main Author: Hodgkin, Samuel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aini, Sadriddin (1878-1954)
Anthologies
Case studies
Culture
Ferdowsi (c. 940–1020)
Historiography
International organizations
Interwar period
Iranian literature
Language policy
Literary canon
Literary history
Modernity
Modernization
Nationalization
Nizami Ganjavi (1141?-1209?)
Persian language
Persian literature
Reification
Transnationalism
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Summary:In scholarship on post-Persianate literary modernity, the emergence of the new institution of literature is often conflated with the delimitation and reification of national cultures as different manifestations of a single process. This article examines three anthologies of Persian literature from the interwar Persophone Soviet Union to reconsider the relationship between state cultural institutions’ procedures of literary modernization and nationalization. The anthologies mark out the stages by which classical Persian literature was portioned out to Soviet Eastern nationalities, and in particular the advent of Tajik literary history, but they also reveal the degree to which national literatures coevolved with new post-Persianate literary cosmopolitanisms and internationalisms.
ISSN:0021-0862
1475-4819
DOI:10.1017/irn.2021.15