Contemporary Iranian Society Through its Literature

Special issue of Oriente Moderno (104/1-2, 2024) devoted to Contemporary Iranian Society Through its Literature. The aim is to offer a glimpse of contemporary Iran through its literary production and its cultural and publishing dynamics. The starting point is the awareness that literature can be representation, testimony, denunciation, a place of comfort, analysis, confrontation, recomposition and intimate experience, and that writers draw on these possibilities in setting out new cartographies and paths of meaning, in formulating questions that, in the current lacerating times, indicate pathways and build bridges. This special issue brings together articles by scholars who are experts in contemporary Persian literature and its evolutionary processes. The articles in this volume examine different aspects of contemporary Persian literature and its connections with Iranian society.