Download or read book The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories written by Ṣamad Bihrangī and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behrangi offers five children's stories that are notable for their realism and social significance. In keeping with his desire to combat ignorance and bridge the cultural gap between the rural poor and wealthy city dwellers and land owners, his stories do not shield children from knowledge about the pain and cruelty of life. Rather, they pay homage to the lives of the poor, who despite their powerlessness continue their struggle to survive both physically and intellectually. This edition of the book includes an essay by Gholam Husayn Sa'edi.
Download or read book The Little Black Fish and Other Modern Persian Stories written by Ṣamad Bihrangī and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book written by Ṣamad Bihrangī and published by Ibex Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English translation and original Persian text of Little Black Fish is one of the most well known modern Persian children's story. Upon its original publication this story won prizes at the Bologna and Bratislava children's books fairs. On the surface this story is about a little black fish who wanders out of his neighborhood and encounters various adventures and dangers, which he overcomes. On a different level it can be read as the human journey from childhood to adulthood.
Download or read book The Tale of the Little Black Fish written by Samad Behrangi and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little Black Fish Other Tales written by Ṣamad Bihrangī and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little Black Fish written by Ruby Emam and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Black Fish embarks on an eye opening journey with the spirit of a dreamer experiencing an awakening and the prospects of the deeds he would perform, but in the process he does more than that. The path leads him to wisdom, courage, awareness and study of social relations. The story is about stepping outside the confides of a self centered life, looking at life as it should be and not as it is. With a simple analogy for younger readers, it has numerous underlying political messages for progressives and shows a path to freedom, equality and justice. The goal of The Little Black Fish is to fulfill his ultimate quest: "How will my life or death impact the lives of others?" Once he has identified the problem he sets a goal to look for solutions, making connections, assuming leadership, planning, and continuing the quest until the goal has been reached.
Download or read book written by Ṣamad Bihrangī and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of various warnings the little black fish still wants to see what is at the end of his stream.
Download or read book The Little Black Fish written by Bizhan Khodabandeh and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of all sorts of warnings and pleadings from other fish, a little black fish sets out to see what the world beyond her stream is like.
Download or read book The Little Black Fish written by Behrang and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little Black Fish Off to See the World written by Ṣamad Bihrangī and published by Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story was written by Samad Behrangi (1939-1968), a teacher in the rural villages in a province in Iran. His short stories were about powerless people; poor and ignored, who had to survive in very difficult conditions which for the most part were a result of a political system that did not care for the people. These conditions were not different from existing ones in many countries in the world today, and in Africa in particular. The Little Black Fish in this children's book represents courage and desire for knowledge, against age old ignorance and fear even if in the end one may have to pay a high price. Children and young people generally will love this story and will not miss the message that it carries.
Download or read book The Little Black Fish written by Ṣamad Bihrangī and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children of Paradise written by Laura Secor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deeply moving…A first-rate, highly readable intellectual history.” –The Wall Street Journal The drama that shaped today’s Iran, from the Revolution to the present day. In 1979, seemingly overnight—moving at a clip some thirty years faster than the rest of the world—Iran became the first revolutionary theocracy in modern times. Since then, the country has been largely a black box to the West, a sinister presence looming over the horizon. But inside Iran, a breathtaking drama has unfolded since then, as religious thinkers, political operatives, poets, journalists, and activists have imagined and reimagined what Iran should be. They have drawn as deeply on the traditions of the West as of the East and have acted upon their beliefs with urgency and passion, frequently staking their lives for them. With more than a decade of experience reporting on, researching, and writing about Iran, Laura Secor narrates this unprecedented history as a story of individuals caught up in the slipstream of their time, seizing and wielding ideas powerful enough to shift its course as they wrestle with their country’s apparatus of violent repression as well as its rich and often tragic history. Essential reading at this moment when the fates of our countries have never been more entwined, Children of Paradise will stand as a classic of political reporting; an indelible portrait of a nation and its people striving for change.
Download or read book In a Persian Mirror written by M. R. Ghanoonparvar and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extreme anti-Western actions and attitudes of Iranians in the 1980s astonished and dismayed the West, which has characterized the Iranian positions as irrational and inexplicable. In this groundbreaking study of images of the West in Iranian literature, however, M. R. Ghanoonparvar reveals that these attitudes did not develop suddenly or inexplicably but rather evolved over more than two centuries of Persian-Western contact. Notable among the authors whose works Ghanoonparvar discusses are Sadeq Hedayat, M. A. Jamalzadeh, Hushang Golshiri, Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi, Simin Daneshvar, Moniru Ravanipur, Sadeq Chubak, and Jalal Al-e Ahmad. This survey significantly illuminates the sources of Iranian attitudes toward the West and offers many surprising discoveries for Western readers, not least of which is the fact that Iranians have often found Westerners to be as enigmatic and incomprehensible as we have believed them to be.
Download or read book Exiled Memories written by Zohreh Sullivan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I feel I am the wandering Jew who has no place to which she belongs. I thought I could settle down, but can't imagine staying. Whenever I bought a bar of soap and two came in the package, I thought there would be no need to buy a package of two because I would never last through the second. Why? Because I knew I was returning to Iran -- tomorrow. So too, I would buy the smallest size of toothpastes and jars of oil. Putting down roots here is an impossibility." These are the words of one Iranian emigre, driven from Tehran by the revolution of 1979. They are echoed time and again in this powerful portrayal of loss and survival. Impelled by these word and her own concerns about nationality and identity, Zohreh Sullivan has gathered together here the voices of sixty exiles and emigres. The speakers come from various ethnic and religious backgrounds and range in age from thirteen to eighty-eight. Although most are from the middle class, they work in a variety of occupations in the United States. But whatever their differences, here they engage in remembering the past, producing a discourse about their lives, and negotiating the troubled transitions from one culture to another. Unlike man other Iranian oral history projects, Exiled Memories looks at the reconstruction of memory and identity through diasporic narratives, through a focus on the Americas rather than on Iran. The narratives included here reveal the complex ways in which events and places transform identities, how overnight radical s become conservatives, friends become enemies, the strong become weak. Indeed, the narratives themselves serve this function -- serving to transfer or transform power and establish credibility. They reveal a diverse group of people in the process of knitting the story of themselves with the story of the collective after it has been torn apart.
Download or read book The Modern Persian Short Story 1921 1981 written by John Green and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: and the close coincidence of the development of public literacy with that of the short story is discussed.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation written by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian literature in translation, discusses the development of the field, gives critical expression to research on Persian literature in translation, and brings together cutting-edge theoretical and practical research. The book is divided into the following three parts: (I) Translation of Classical Persian Literature, (II) Translation of Modern Persian Literature, and (III) Persian Literary Translation in Practice. The chapters of the book are authored by internationally renowned scholars in the field, and the volume is an essential reference for scholars and their advanced students as well as for those researching in related areas and for independent translators of Persian literature.
Download or read book Popular Iranian Cinema before the Revolution written by Pedram Partovi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics and academics have generally dismissed the commercial productions of the late Pahlavi era, best known for their songs and melodramatic plots, as shallow, derivative ‘entertainment’. Instead, they have concentrated on the more recent internationally acclaimed art films, claiming that these constitute Iranian ‘national' cinema, despite few Iranians having seen them. Film discourse, and even fan talk, have long attempted to marginalize the mainstream releases of the 1960s and 1970s with the moniker filmfarsi, ironically asserting that such popular favorites were culturally inauthentic. This book challenges the idea that filmfarsi is detached from the past and present of Iranians. Far from being escapist Hollywood fare merely translated into Persian, it claims that the better films of this supposed genre must be taken as both a subject of, and source for, modern Iranian history. It argues that they have an appeal that relies on their ability to rearticulate traditional courtly and religious ideas and forms to problematize in unexpectedly complex and sophisticated ways the modernist agenda that secular nationalist elites wished to impose on their viewers. Taken seriously, these films raise questions about standard treatments of Iran's modern history. By writing popular films into Iranian history, this book advocates both a fresh approach to the study of Iranian cinema, as well as a rethinking of the modernity/tradition binary that has organized the historiography of the recent past. It will appeal to those interested in Iranian cinema, Iranian history and culture, and, more broadly, readers dissatisfied with a dichotomous approach to modernity.
