The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu’s Canon of the Global South

Main author: Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan
Other authors: Gould, Rebecca Ruth
Format: Journal Article           
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description This article explores how the Iranian poet and translator Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000) reconceives the configuration of world poetics. Working at the intersection of global modernism and translation studies, it traces the formation of a Persian modernist poetics of solidarity on the basis of translations from so-called third-world literatures and explores how Shamlu’s political aesthetic traverses national borders to embrace ignored and marginalized poetic traditions. Rather than relying on French and other European modernisms to reinvigorate his national literature, Shamlu made available to his Iranian contemporaries a broad panorama of world literature that brought together Global Southern literatures, modernist poetics, and transnational political commitments. In tracing the literary and political forms shaped by Shamlu’s poetics of global solidarity, this article develops a post-Eurocentric framework for the study of Iranian literary modernism.
format Journal Article
author Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan
author_facet Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan
Gould, Rebecca Ruth
authorStr Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan
author_letter Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan
author2 Gould, Rebecca Ruth
author2Str Gould, Rebecca Ruth
title The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu’s Canon of the Global South
publisher Duke University Press
publishDate 2022
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/41004/