Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses: Sensory Readings of Persian Literature and Culture

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1. Table of Contents No access
2. A Note on Translations and Transliterations No access
3. Preface and Acknowledgements No access
Introduction: Minds/Senses No access Pages 13 - 24
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1. Transcending the Written Text: From Dava’i’s Sensescapes to Sensorial Promiscuities in a Hafezian Banquet No access Pages 25 - 48
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2. Beyond Senses: Rumi’s Mystical Philosophy of Sense Perceptions No access Pages 49 - 70
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3. Ta‘ziyeh and Social Jouissance: ‘Beyond the Pleasure’ of Pain in Islamic Passion Play and Muharram Ceremonies No access Pages 71 - 98
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4. Seeing Red, Hearing the Revolution: The Multi-Sensory Appeal of Shuresh No access Pages 99 - 128
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5. Radical Openness in Forugh Farrokhzad’s The House is Black No access Pages 129 - 148
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6. Feminine Sense Versus Common Sense in Two Persian Folktales from Iran: ‘A Girl’s Loyalty’ and ‘Seven Poplar Trees’ No access Pages 149 - 170
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7. Sonic Triggers and Fiery Pools: The Senses at War in Hossein Mortezaeian Abkenar’s Scorpion No access Pages 171 - 194
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8. The Sensorium of Exile: The Case of Elyas Alavi and Gloria Anzaldúa No access Pages 195 - 214
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9. Making Sense of the Senses: A Sensory Reading of Moniro Ravanipour’s These Crazy Nights No access Pages 215 - 242
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Bibliography No access Pages 243 - 258
Contributors No access Pages 259 - 264
Index No access Pages 265 - 276