Late Persianate, Late Soviet: Classical Poetic Form at the End of Communist Internationalism (with Samuel Hodgkin)
Late Persianate, Late Soviet: Classical Poetic Form at the End of Communist Internationalism (with Samuel Hodgkin)
What remained of the Persianate literary tradition, after the vernacularizing projects of Soviet, Middle Eastern, and South Asian nation-builders? What remained of its rhetorical resources, after they had been deployed in service of nationalist and internationalist programs of political representation for more than a half century, when secular nationalism and communist internationalism alike faltered in […]