(Dis)Played and (Dis)Covered: Constructing Gender in Persianate Literature

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Great Lakes Adiban Society

Organizer Name

Cameron Cross

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Presider Name

Franklin Lewis

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Chicago

Paper Title 1

Mammoth Bodies, Chests, Arms and Thighs: On Masculinity in Firdawsi's Shahnameh

Presenter 1 Name

Alexandra Hoffmann

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Chicago

Paper Title 2

Rebellious Princesses: The Ghazals of Jahān Malik Khātun and Zīb un-Nisā Makhfī

Presenter 2 Name

Maryam Sabbaghi

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Chicago

Paper Title 3

Poetry and Paragons of Masculine Eroticism in Late Medieval India and Iran

Presenter 3 Name

Nathan L. M. Tabor

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Western Michigan Univ.

Start Date

11-5-2017 7:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 1045

Description

The papers in this panel engage with the topic of gender in a variety of genres of Persianate literature. Our primary point of focus is on the ways gender can be fashioned and negotiated between individuals, both fictive and historical, and their respective communities. Moments of gender flux, ambivalence, and duality are characteristic of the texts discussed.

Cameron Cross