{"id":321,"count":1,"description":"Nasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine. She is the Director of the School of Humanities signature Humanities Core Course 2019-2022. Between 2016 and 2019 she served as Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and was Maseeh Chair and Director of the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine (2008-2014).\r\nHer teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature, the literature of Iranian exile and diaspora, contemporary Iranian women\u2019s writing, and post-revolutionary cinema. Among her publications are Oriental Responses to the West, Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet Of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman And Feminine Pioneer Of New Persian Poetry co-edited with Dominic Parviz Brookshaw. She translated the late Taghi Modarressi\u2019s last novel, The Virgin of Solitude from Persian into English.\r\n\r\n<strong>Abstract:\r\nSimin Daneshvar and the Forging of an Intellectual<\/strong>\r\nSimin Daneshvar has been celebrated for her contributions to modern Persian prose fiction. What is less recognized is her position as a thinker and intellectual. This might in part be due to her husband Jalal-Al-e Ahmad\u2019s standing as one of the leading intellectuals of his time, renowned for his trenchant critiques of Iran\u2019s economic, social, political, and cultural subservience to the West, specifically to the US. In his fiction, essays, and travelogues, Al-e Ahmad gave voice to his concerns about what he perceived as Iran\u2019s loss of sovereignty and the consequences of the nation\u2019s near total submission to the trappings of modernization and Westernization. Interestingly, Daneshvar did not wish to be compared to her husband and insisted on her own distinct approach manifested in her fiction as well as her interviews and correspondence. She was far from sanguine about the problems that beset Iranian society before and after the revolution. And yet, she is not counted among Iranian intellectuals. In this presentation I will explore the terms under which Iranian discourses of intellectualism have sidelined women even as they have taken up the cause of women\u2019s position, education, and rights in Iranian society. Focusing on select examples from Danehsvar\u2019s fiction and correspondence I will demonstrate Daneshvar\u2019s rightful place among Iranian intellectuals of the modern era.","link":"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/nasrin-rahimieh\/","name":"Nasrin Rahimieh","slug":"nasrin-rahimieh","taxonomy":"artist-guest","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nasrin Rahimieh Archives - Tirgan Festival 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/nasrin-rahimieh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nasrin Rahimieh Archives - Tirgan Festival 2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine. She is the Director of the School of Humanities signature Humanities Core Course 2019-2022. Between 2016 and 2019 she served as Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and was Maseeh Chair and Director of the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine (2008-2014). Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature, the literature of Iranian exile and diaspora, contemporary Iranian women\u2019s writing, and post-revolutionary cinema. Among her publications are Oriental Responses to the West, Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History, Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet Of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman And Feminine Pioneer Of New Persian Poetry co-edited with Dominic Parviz Brookshaw. She translated the late Taghi Modarressi\u2019s last novel, The Virgin of Solitude from Persian into English. Abstract: Simin Daneshvar and the Forging of an Intellectual Simin Daneshvar has been celebrated for her contributions to modern Persian prose fiction. What is less recognized is her position as a thinker and intellectual. This might in part be due to her husband Jalal-Al-e Ahmad\u2019s standing as one of the leading intellectuals of his time, renowned for his trenchant critiques of Iran\u2019s economic, social, political, and cultural subservience to the West, specifically to the US. In his fiction, essays, and travelogues, Al-e Ahmad gave voice to his concerns about what he perceived as Iran\u2019s loss of sovereignty and the consequences of the nation\u2019s near total submission to the trappings of modernization and Westernization. Interestingly, Daneshvar did not wish to be compared to her husband and insisted on her own distinct approach manifested in her fiction as well as her interviews and correspondence. She was far from sanguine about the problems that beset Iranian society before and after the revolution. And yet, she is not counted among Iranian intellectuals. In this presentation I will explore the terms under which Iranian discourses of intellectualism have sidelined women even as they have taken up the cause of women\u2019s position, education, and rights in Iranian society. Focusing on select examples from Danehsvar\u2019s fiction and correspondence I will demonstrate Daneshvar\u2019s rightful place among Iranian intellectuals of the modern era.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/nasrin-rahimieh\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tirgan Festival 2019\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"CollectionPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/nasrin-rahimieh\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/nasrin-rahimieh\/\",\"name\":\"Nasrin Rahimieh Archives - Tirgan Festival 2019\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/#website\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/nasrin-rahimieh\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/nasrin-rahimieh\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nasrin Rahimieh\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/\",\"name\":\"Tirgan Festival 2019\",\"description\":\"Tirgan Summer Festival\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nasrin Rahimieh Archives - Tirgan Festival 2019","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/tirgan.ca\/tirgan2019\/artist-guest\/nasrin-rahimieh\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Nasrin Rahimieh Archives - Tirgan Festival 2019","og_description":"Nasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine. 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