The homeless texts of persianate modernity

Cultural Dynamics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 263-291

  Tavakoli Targhi, M ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Affinity of languages; Bordered history; Coevalness; Decolonizing; Detemporalizing; Forgotten texts; Heterotopia; Historical imagination; Homeless texts; Modernity; Nationalim; Non contemporaneity; Occidentalism; Orientalism; Persianate modernity; Reactivation; Schizochronic; Self refashioning

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; LANGUAGE; MODERNITY;

EID: 0035197588     PISSN: 09213740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/092137400101300302     Document Type: Article

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