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THE MORNING AFTER: TRAVAIL OF SEXUALITY AND LOVE IN MODERN IRAN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2004

Afsaneh Najmabadi
Afsaneh Najmabadi
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Is a Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 02138, USA; e-mail: najmabad@fas.harvard.edu.
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For the past seven years, Iran has been in the grip of a literary event. A novel, Bamdad-i khumar (The Morning After), written by a hitherto unknown woman, Fattanah Hajj Sayyidjavadi, (b. 1945), became an overnight best-seller and has so remained. From the start, the book has generated heated debates over its literary and socio-cultural merits. Most critics and readers have very strong opinions about the novel. One reader, another first-time writer, was so deeply angered by what she considered to be the novel's exaggerated female-centeredness and its unfairness to men that she decided to rewrite the novel through the voice of its male anti-hero.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , August 2004 , pp. 367 - 385
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2004 Cambridge University Press

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