Table of Contents

Acknowledgements IntroductionPart 1: Counter-Imagining Islam and IranIslams 1. In the Absence of the Face 2. Shi'ism as Paradox 3. Counter-Imagining the SacredIslamic Ideology 4. The Power of Interpretation 5. Blindness and Insight: The Predicament of a Muslim IntellectualIran 6. On Nations Without Borders 7. Khomeini's RevolutionPart 2: Emancipatory AestheticsPoetic Revolutions 8. Nima Yushij and the Constitution of a National Subject 9. Forugh Farrokhzad and the Formative Forces of Iranian CultureCinematic Palpitations 10. Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf 11. On Signs and SignationNew Global Visual Arts 12. Whither Iranian Cinema? The Perils and Promises of Globalization 13. It was in China, Late One Moonless NightHamid Dabashi: A Select Bibliography Index

About the Author

Andrew Davison