The Shadow-Texts of National History: Poetic Participation in Iran and Afghanistan

IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Philological Encounters Pub Date : 2023-05-26 DOI:10.1163/24519197-bja10039
A. Fani
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This article analyzes a little-known practice called iqtirāḥ—“test of poetic talent” or “poetic competition”—that proliferated in twentieth-century Persian-language periodicals. It examines two case studies: one in Tehran in 1928, which mythologized Nādir Shah (r. 1736–1747), a Turko-Persian monarch, as a national hero, and one in Kabul in 1932, which eulogized Muḥammad Nādir Shah (r. 1920–1933), a ruling monarch at the time, for restoring an Afghan homeland imagined as unified. The article frames iqtirāḥ as an afterlife of Persianate modes of sociability that were reconfigured by modern periodicals to serve the demands of romantic nationalism in the twentieth century. By critically examining the ways in which poetic composition interacts with the formation of a national historiography, this article also shows that any clear-cut distinction between the two is arbitrary.
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民族历史的影子文本:伊朗和阿富汗的诗歌参与
这篇文章分析了一种名为iqtirāḥ—“诗歌天赋测试”或“诗歌竞赛”——在20世纪的波斯语期刊中激增。它考察了两个案例研究:一个是1928年在德黑兰,将突厥-波斯君主纳迪尔·沙阿(1736–1747年在位)神话为民族英雄;另一个是1932年在喀布尔,歌颂穆ḥ阿米德·纳迪尔·沙阿(1920年-1933年在位),当时的执政君主,因恢复被想象为统一的阿富汗家园而闻名。这篇文章把iqtirāḥ 作为波斯人社交模式的来生,现代期刊对其进行了重新配置,以满足20世纪浪漫主义民族主义的要求。通过批判性地考察诗歌创作与国家史学形成的互动方式,本文还表明,两者之间的任何明确区别都是任意的。
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