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The Mongol Invasion in Iranian Drama: The Case of Bahram Beyzaie

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari  and
Mahsa Manavi
Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
Affiliation:
University of Tehran
Mahsa Manavi
Affiliation:
University of Tarbiat Moallem (Tehran)
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Abstract

New Historicists view history as a text through whose discontinuities and breaks the repressed and suppressed voices find ways of articulation. Likewise, a literary text, in its underlying layers, alludes to the historical conditions at the time of its production. In some cases, as in Bahram Beyzaie's works, however, the author intentionally uses the past to reread the present. He recreates history as a text in which the voices repressed in the classified history are heard. As the Mongols played an important role in the history of Iran, some of Beyzaie's works pay particular attention to them. This paper analyzes some of Beyzaie's plays and screenplays to investigate the presentation of the Mongols in his fictional worlds.

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Research Article
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Iranian Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 5: Special Issue: Bahram Beyzaie's Cinema and Theater , September 2013 , pp. 765 - 789
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Copyright © The International Society for Iranian Studies 2013

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