Rereading a Life: Forugh Farrokzad as a Poet of the Sacred and the Self
While often lauded for her groundbreaking poetry that challenged cultural and literary norms of her time, Forugh Farrokhzad is not commonly regarded as a poet who wrote of the sacred. In this paper, I build on the literary analysis of Fatemeh Keshavarz, who reads Farrokhzad's poetry as a form o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Notre Dame
2021
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Religion & literature
Year: 2021, Volume: 53, Issue: 3, Pages: 23-46 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Farruḫzād, Furūġ 1934-1967
/ The Holy
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| RelBib Classification: | TK Recent history |
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| Summary: | While often lauded for her groundbreaking poetry that challenged cultural and literary norms of her time, Forugh Farrokhzad is not commonly regarded as a poet who wrote of the sacred. In this paper, I build on the literary analysis of Fatemeh Keshavarz, who reads Farrokhzad's poetry as a form of "sacred-making," to consider Farrokhzad's poetic act of naming the sacred as an epistemic act that models a means of redefining the sacred outside of traditional, patriarchal interpretations. I discuss the implications of the individual act of naming the sacred as a form of producing religious knowledge in relation to the ongoing theological discourse within Muslim communities and more importantly, as a way defining one's relationship to the sacred. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/rel.2021.0031 |