Table of Contents
Abbreviations Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Patricia J. Higgins and Michelle Quay
PART I: TRANSLATION OF CLASSICAL PERSIAN LITERATURE
1. Barbad's Song
Dick Davis
2. Rumi and Hafez: Reflections on Translation
Geoffrey Squires
3. The Crowded Borderlands of an Iconic ‘Translation’: Material and Immaterial Paratext of FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Christine van Ruymbeke
4. Classical Persian Poetry and World Literature: The Case of Hafez
Alireza Anushiravani
5. Making Sense of Persian Ethics in English: The Case of Jami’s Baharistan
Gregory Maxwell Bruce
6. Challenges of and Strategies for Translating Indo-Persian Poetry: The Case of Bedil (1644-1720)
Hajnalka Kovacs
7. Sa‘di’s Gulistan in British India: A Provocation
Alexander Jabbari
PART II: TRANSLATION OF MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE
8. The Persian Short Story and its Histories of Translation
Amy Motlagh
9. Translation of Persian Drama into English
Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
10. White Rabbits of Wonderland: Scenes from Translating and Teaching Persian Theatre
Marjan Moosavi
11. Gender and Canonization in Contemporary Persian Short Story Anthologies, 1980 to 2020
Michelle Quay
12. Mirroring the "Orient" in Words: Persian Prose Fiction in Translation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Pegah Shahbaz
13. Color’s Fracture: Translating Fugitive Experience in Early Modern Persian Poetry
Jane Mikkelson
14. What Does Translation Mean in the Age of Colonial Modernity?
Aria Fani
PART III: PERSIAN LITERARY TRANSLATION IN PRACTICE
15. Teaching the Practice of Literary Translation: A Personal Perspective
M. R. Ghanoonparvar
16. "This Being Human is a Guest House": Reflections on Coleman Barks' Translations of Jalal al-Din Rumi's Poetry
Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
17. Use of Translations of Classic Persian Poems in the Study of Persian
Michael Craig Hillmann
18. The Cultural Translatability of Betweenness: Reading the Literature of the Iranian Diaspora
Persis M. Karim
19. A Linguistic Perspective on Persian Literary Translation
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
20. Persian Poetry in the Second-World Translation System
Samuel Hodgkin
Index