The Art of Defiance

Examines how the arts popularised militant resistance to the monarchy in 1970s Iran Explores how the arts help enhance political ideologiesExamines the dialectics of arts (poetry, fiction, film, songs/soundtracks) and action (militant operations) in 1970s IranDevelops a theory about how the construction of a popular myth around a political event deploys symbolic discourses and tropes of resistanceFeatures an array of case studies examining popular poets (Nima Yushij, Ahmad Shamlou, Mehdi Akhavan