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The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu’s Canon of the Global South

Tahmasebian Dehkordi, Kayvan; Gould, Rebecca Ruth

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Kayvan Tahmasebian Dehkordi



Abstract

This article explores how the Iranian poet and translator Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000) reconceives the configuration of world poetics. Working at the intersection of global modernism and translation studies, it traces the formation of a Persian modernist poetics of solidarity on the basis of translations from so-called third-world literatures and explores how Shamlu’s political aesthetic traverses national borders to embrace ignored and marginalized poetic traditions. Rather than relying on French and other European modernisms to reinvigorate his national literature, Shamlu made available to his Iranian contemporaries a broad panorama of world literature that brought together Global Southern literatures, modernist poetics, and transnational political commitments. In tracing the literary and political forms shaped by Shamlu’s poetics of global solidarity, this article develops a post-Eurocentric framework for the study of Iranian literary modernism.

Citation

Tahmasebian Dehkordi, K., & Gould, R. R. (2022). The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu’s Canon of the Global South. Twentieth-Century Literature, 68(1), 25-52. https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462x-9668884

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 8, 2019
Publication Date Mar 1, 2022
Deposit Date Mar 4, 2024
Publicly Available Date Mar 4, 2024
Journal Twentieth-Century Literature
Print ISSN 0041-462X
Electronic ISSN 2325-8101
Publisher Duke University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 68
Issue 1
Pages 25-52
DOI https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462x-9668884
Keywords internationalism, Iran, poetry, politics and literature, translation
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0041462x-9668884

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