Touba and the Meaning of Night
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- 9781558615199
Touba and the Meaning of Night is a depression in women, shame book by Shahrnush Parsipur.
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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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Touba and the Meaning of Night is a Depression in women, Shame, Iranian history, Fiction, fantasy, contemporary book.
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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...
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Touba and the Meaning of Night was written by Shahrnush Parsipur.