- Depression in women, Fiction, Shame, Iranian history
From a distinctly Iranian perspective, *Touba and the Meaning of Night* reveals ongoing tension between rationalism and mysticism, tradition and modernity, male and female, East and West. Speaking in an idiom unique to its author and indicative of a new tradition in Persian women's writing, the epic also defies Western stereotypes of Iranian women and Western expectations of Iranian literary form.
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- Author
- Shahrnush Parsipur
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- The Feminist Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781558615199
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