{"product_id":"9789819593330","title":"The Triumph of Iran's National Narrative Literary Memory, Civil Society, and Uprising","description":"\u003ch3\u003eIranian and Persian Studies\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe Triumph of Iran's National Narrative\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eLiterary Memory, Civil Society, and Uprising\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKamran Talattof\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eThis book traces the long struggle between Iran's national narrative and the competing ideological metanarratives — Islamic and Marxist — that sought to displace it, culminating in the 1979 Revolution, when the national narrative appeared defeated. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eHow did millions of Iranians, across hundreds of cities, come to speak with a unified voice demanding national restoration? And how did decades of cultural suppression fail to silence them? This book argues that the answer lies not in political organization alone, but in the resilience of cultural memory — preserved through Persian literature, pre-Islamic civilizational heritage, and the civic values that persisted beneath ideological domination. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eCentral to this story is the role of Iranian women. Since the Islamic Republic's founding, women bore a disproportionate burden of repression: veiling mandates, curtailed freedoms, and the systematic erasure of their civic identity. Yet it was women writers, activists, and cultural producers who helped preserve Iran's national story. Through their bestselling novels, they exposed the mechanisms of female subjugation while reclaiming Iran's literary legacy, civic values, and cultural pride — helping forge what this book defines as civil society nationalism: a coherent, affirmative, and organic nationalist movement. This book situates these novels within a broader constellation of cultural resistance: the resurgence of suppressed arts, the emergence of powerful protest slogans, the mobilizing reach of diaspora leaders and media, and the transformative energy of successive uprisings — from the reform era of 1997–2005 through the nationwide protests of 2018 and 2020, to the Women, Life, Freedom movement of 2022, and the Lion and Sun uprising of 2025. Together, these developments reveal how cultural memory does not merely sustain identity — it reorganizes political imagination, transforming historical continuity into collective aspiration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\"\u003eTheoretically, the book makes a case for narrative studies over discourse analysis as the sharper framework for understanding both the 1979 Revolution and Iran's ongoing political transformation. A national narrative is, at its core, a story: layered, dynamic, and enduring — and Iran's, though periodically interrupted, has never been extinguished. Drawing on literary studies, narrative theory, and political history, this book provides essential reading for scholars of Iranian studies, literary criticism, nationalism, and ideology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eKamran Talattof received his Ph.D from The University of Michigan in 1996, and he has been teaching at the University of Arizona since 1999 after teaching at Princeton University for three years. He is currently a full professor for the Department of Near Eastern Studies while holding an affiliation with the Department of Gender \u0026amp; Women's Studies and the Graduate Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. He has taught courses on classical and modern Persian literature, Iranian cinema, Iranian history, the Persian language, and Middle Eastern Women's writings. Kamran Talattof has received a few awards for his teaching and services to the field of Persian and Iranian Studies. He has served on several national and international committees within academic associations and on the editorial committees of academic journals, as well as on several ad-hoc international committees. He's authored, co-edited, and co-translated books focusing on issues of gender, sexuality, ideology, culture, and Persian language pedagogy. His articles also focus on gender, ideology, culture, and fundamentalism. Kamran Talattof is the Founding Chair of the \u003cspan style=\"color: windowtext;\"\u003eRoshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies\u003c\/span\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 July 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Singapore\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9789819593330\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e349\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Singapore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46548071710860,"sku":"9789819593330","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789819593330.jpg?v=1781087045","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9789819593330","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}