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'In an engaging and accessible, yet analytically exact style, Jabbari explores crucial shifts in the development of literary history, revealing changing conceptions of social collective, history, and sexuality in the age of print nationalism. At the heart of this untold story is the tension between a transregional endeavor to fashion modern concepts and texts out of the Persianate past, while also claiming unique, divergent national contexts.' Mana Kia, Columbia University 'An important contribution to both Middle East and South Asian Studies. Alexander Jabbari brings a wealth of new source material and very original readings to document the surprising afterlives of the Persianate cultural system. This book challenges many of the stubborn conventions of both nationalist historiography and the area studies paradigm.' Afshin Marashi, University of Oklahoma 'In this erudite study of the disjuncture between the Persianate past and modern nationalist histories of literature, Jabbari deftly weaves a fascinating narrative of the role that textual genres, (homo)eroticism, linguistic history, orthography and punctuation played in the making of Persian literary modernity.' Sunil Sharma, Boston University 'Written with depth and precision, Alexander Jabbari demonstrates how engagements between Persian and Urdu were crucial to the creation of a new habitus of literary modernity in twentieth-century Iran and South Asia, making the case that the story of literary culture in the era of nations may best be told from a transregional and multilingual perspective.' Kevin L. Schwartz, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences

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Alexander Jabbari is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is a literary historian working on the literature, history, and philology of the Middle East and South Asia. His research has been published in Iranian Studies, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Journal of Persianate Studies, International Journal of Islam in Asia, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and elsewhere.

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