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Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War

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內容簡介 《永不落幕的塵埃：兩伊戰爭的文學餘波》伊朗—伊拉克戰爭自 1980 年 9 月至 1988 年 8 月，為二十世紀兩個國家之間持續時間最長的傳統戰爭之一。這場戰爭發生在伊朗革命後建立伊斯蘭共和國，以及薩達姆・海珊在伊拉克鞏固權力的時期。戰爭最終在雙方政權仍然存在、邊界未改變的情況下結束，但已有數十萬人喪生。沒有任何一方取得明確勝利，然而雙方日後都以不同方式宣稱自己勝利。《Dust That Never Settles》探討伊朗與伊拉克作家如何從戰時至今，持續面對並書寫這場戰爭及其遺產。本書指出，兩國作家逐漸將原本帶有軍事與官方宣傳性質的戰爭文學，轉化為哀悼的文學，進而成為抗議與反思的文學，提出強而有力、對抗國家官方敘事的另類聲音。作為第一本比較研究伊朗—伊拉克戰爭文學產出的著作，作者 Amir Moosavi 提出研究現代中東文學的新典範。他將波斯語與阿拉伯語小說置於更廣泛的文化與政治討論之中，探討文化生產在中東與北非地區的政治意義，並將這一重要的新文學典範，納入全球南方的比較文學與文化研究視野之中。Lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, the Iran-Iraq War was the longest conventional war fought between two states in the twentieth century. It marked a period that began just after a revolutionary government in Iran became an Islamic Republic and Saddam Hussein consolidated power in Iraq. It ended with both wartime governments still in power, borders unchanged, yet hundreds of thousands of people dead. Neither side emerged as a clear victor, but both sides would eventually claim victory in some form. Dust That Never Settles considers how Iraqi and Iranian writers have wrestled with representing the Iran-Iraq War and its legacy, from wartime to the present. It demonstrates how writers from both countries have transformed once militarized, officially sanctioned war literatures into literatures of mourning, and eventually, into vehicles of protest that presented powerful counternarratives to the official state narratives. In writing the first comparative study of the literary output of this war, Amir Moosavi presents a new paradigm for the study of modern Middle Eastern literatures. He brings Persian and Arabic fiction into conversation with debates on the political importance of cultural production across the Middle East and North Africa, and he puts an important new canon of works in conversation with comparative literary and cultural studies within the Global South.

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作者介紹 Amir Moosavi is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University-Newark.

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