Reading Across Borders by Aria Fani - 9781477328811

Reading Across BordersAfghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism\nAuthor(s): Aria Fani\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9781477328811, 978-1477328811\nSynopsis\nThe dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.\n\n Contrary to the presumption that literary nationalism in the Global South emerged through contact with Europe alone, Reading across Borders demonstrates how the cultural forms of Iran and Afghanistan as nation-states arose from their shared Persian heritage and cross-cultural exchange in the twentieth century. In this book, Aria Fani charts the individuals, institutions, and conversations that made this exchange possible, detailing the dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through new ideas about literature. \n\n Fani illustrates how voluntary and state-funded associations of readers helped .