Modern American Literature and Contemporary Iranian Cinema: Identity, Appropriation, and Recontextualization (Yazdanjoo Morteza)(Paperback)

As an endeavour to contribute to the burgeoning field of comparative literature, this monograph addresses the dynamic yet understudied intertextual dialogism between modern American literature and contemporary Iranian Cinema, pinpointing how the latter appropriates and recontextualizes instances of the latter to construct and inculcate vestiges of national/gender identity on the silver screen. Drawing on Louis Montrose's catchphrase that Cultural Materialism foregrounds the textuality of history, [and] the historicity of texts, this book contends that literary texts are synchronic artifacts prone to myriad intertextual and extra-textual readings and understandings, each historically conditioned. The recontextualization of Herzog, Franny and Zooey, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Death of a Salesman into contemporary Iran provides
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