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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: “Shahrnush Parsipur's Prison Memoirs (Khāterāt-
 e zendān)\, and the epic hero's quest” by Renata Rusek-Kowalska
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DESCRIPTION:Published in exile\, Prison Memoirs (Khāterāt-e zendān\, Sw
 eden 1996) by Shahrnush Parsipur serves as a rare example of testimonial l
 iterature written by both a member of the literati and a sociologist.\n\nB
 ased on the author’s experience of four terms of imprisonment\, once und
 er the shah (1974) and then during the Islamic Republic (between 1981-1986
 )\, it bears witness to the revolution\, which devoured its own children a
 nd pays homage to the executed victims of the ‘mandatory paradise’ bui
 lt by the theocratic regime.\n\nWell-versed in world literature and its my
 thical and epic background\, the author aims at communicating her carceral
  experience in the manner of a detached observer rather than a literary he
 ro. Hence\, in her non-fictional prose\, Parsipur avoids emotional and pla
 intive diction and resorts to the rhetoric of sincerity\, self-restraint a
 nd irony instead of self-heroization. Yet\, in this highly conscious self-
 writing\, one can find traces of the epic hero’s quest that makes Parsip
 ur’s story a compelling piece of literature.\n\n
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Turfan" (0.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/guest-lecture-by-renata-rusek/
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