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New Texts Out Now: Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement

Apr 18 2012
[Cover of Farzaneh Milani,

Farzaneh Milani, Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011. Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book? Farzaneh Milani (FM): In a way, Words, not Swords is a rebuttal to my first book, Veils and Words. The central argument of Veils and Words revolved around Iranian women's literary output. I claimed that the veil had covered not only Iranian women's bodies, but also their literary voices. ...

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Farzaneh Milani

 

Farzaneh Milani is Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures and professor of Persian Literature and Women Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Words, Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement and Veils and Words: The Emerging Voice of Iranian Women Writers and the coeditor and translator of A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems by Simin Behbahani.

"These kinds of divergences, genuine divergences of interests, are being misread as some kind of an axis shift on the part of Turkey".
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