Iranian Writers Uncensored World War II and Holocaust sober and ridiculous

sober and ridiculous

These interviews with poets and writers still living and working in Iran demonstrate their belief that literature's value is in opening spaces of awareness in the minds of the reader—and pockets of freedom in society

ISBN: 9781564781956

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spanning three decades of tumultuous social and political history in twentieth-century Brazil

Iranian Writers Uncensored World War II and Holocaust sober and ridiculousThe 1979 Revolution in Iran was meant to bring freedom, hope, and prosperity to an oppressed people, but the reality is well knownthe poets and writers interviewed by Shiva Rahbaran speak instead of humiliation, despotism, war, and poverty. As poet Mohammad Hoghooghi says, "[Writing] constitutes resistance. Because, in any age, the poet has been a protestor of a kind; resisting the thought molds of the day. However, this protest might be political, it