"This is the first book to bring together the modern literature of Iran, Turkey, the multinational Soviet Union, and South Asia into a single connected story. It traces the process by which leftist poets from across Eurasia made classical Persianate poetry into the beating heart of non-Western literary internationalism"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. Persianate/Eastern/International: Geographies, forms, periodizations; 1. Tribunes: the newspaper poetry of Eastern revolution, 1905-1925; 2. Canons: Classical Persianate voices in national and international literary institutions, 1921-1948; 3. Occasions: context collapse in the multinational system of socialist realism, 1934-1938; 4. Translations: sentimental internationalism and its Eastern love languages, 1941-1972; 5. Recognitions: persianate internationalism at the ends of Soviet empire, 1958-2023; Conclusion. Old verses for a Persianate internationalist future.
