A Persian Mosaic

CONTENTS

Editors’ Foreword

M.R. Ghanoonparvar: A Selected Bibliography

The Liminal World of The Blind Owl by Mardin Aminpour    

The Pre-Islamic Past in Modern Iranian Culture: A Cultural Materialist Reading by Mahyar Entezari

Mapping Dystopia in Ebrahim Golestan’s  Mud Brick and Mirror by Somy Kim

“As Fellow Asians?” Irano-Japanese Relations in the Interwar Period by Mikiya Koyagi

Shah Isma’il Comes to Herat: An Anecdote from Vasefi’s “Amazing Events” (Badayi’ al-Vaqayi’) by Azfar Moin

Enlightenment and Shades of Gray: Magic Realism in Women without Men by Dylan Oehler-Stricklin

Remembrance, Reflection, and Retention: Involuntary Memory in Ayenehha-ye Dardar by Farkhondeh Shayesteh

The Documentary Moment: War and Viewer Subjectivity in Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly by Blake Atwood

Teaching Culture in the Persian Language Classroom by Shahla Adel

 Indefinite/Restrictive Maker as Evidence for a Raising/Promotion Analysis of Persian Restrictive Relative Clauses by Behrad Aghaei