Michigan Quarterly Review, Volume 58, Number 2, Spring 2019; Iran: A Special Issue

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 2019. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. [16], 155-346 pages. This issue was removed from plastic mailer for cataloguing. Kathryn Babayan is Associate Professor of Iranian History and Culture in the Departments of Middle East Studies and History at the University of Michigan. Her expertise lies in the medieval and early-modern Persianate world. She specializes in gender studies, the history of sexuality, and the history of the anthology. She is the author of Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran. Babayan has co-edited two books: Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire with Afsaneh Najmabadi and An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion with Michael Pifer. Significant article on Literature from Iran and the Diaspora, as well as poetry, fiction, and an essays on The Woman Warrior, the Ingrid Bergman Principle. and other topics. The Michigan Quarterly Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The quarterly (known as "MQR" for short) publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to its Web site.
Starting in 1979, with a special issue on the subject of "The Moon Landing and Its Aftermath", one issue each year is given over entirely to a special theme. MQR's special issues include "The Automobile and American Culture," "Detroit: An American City," "Contemporary American Fiction," "The Female Body," "The Male Body," and "Bridges to Cuba". In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by Margaret Atwood, Carol Gilligan, Douglas Hofstadter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, John Updike, and William Julius Wilson and fiction by Sergio Troncoso, Eileen Pollack, Peter Orner and Jacob Appel.
Condition: As new (removed from plastic mailer for cataloguing).

Keywords: Iran, Vabe Armen, Mojgan Ghazirad, Mason Jabbari, Amy Motlagh, Ghanoonparvar, Kusha Sefat, Salar Abdoh, Habibe Jafarian, Sandy Feinstein, Ingrid Bergman

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