The article came out yesterday Iranian Literature in Times of Uprising - The Voice of Women by Gerrit Wustmann on Qantara.de, where he introduces Iranian women authors.
The protests against the Iranian regime, which have been going on for months, are mainly driven by young women. The literature also reveals why this is so. Gerrit Wustmann presents books by Iranian authors.
"The verse is my companion, my lover / For its sake I must risk everything,” wrote the poetess Forough Farrokhsad in 1955. As so often in her poems, they express a resistance, a rebellion, a refusal to come to terms with the status quo . The fact that texts by Farrokhzad, who died in a car accident in 1967 at the age of just 32, are still being quoted by demonstrators in Iran today is no coincidence, nor is her status as the most important Iranian poet of the 20th century.
Elsewhere it says: "A spark, a tiny spark / Lit from time to time / This mute, soulless mass / Blasted it open from the inside / They charged at each other / Men slashed with knives / Each other's throats / And in on a bed of blood / Laid them / underage girls". (All quotes from the volume "Jene Tage", German by Kurt Scharf, Sujet Verlag, 5th edition 2018).
You can read the whole article here read.
You can read his book here world literature bestellen: Gerrit Wustmann: World Literature
In his book, which is basically a long essay, Wustmann expresses these theses with strong opinions and underpins them with strong facts. He manages to keep the balance between gentle reproach and enthusiasm.more
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