Manijeh Mannani
Manijeh Mannani is Associate Dean and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Athabasca University. Her areas of expertise include Persian Poetry and Iranian Studies. Her publications include "Najva: Selected Poems of E. D. Blodgett in Persian; Divine Deviants: The Dialectics of Devotion in the Poetry of Donne and Rumi; and Speak Only of the Moon: A New Translation of Rumi" (co-translated). She has co-edited "Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture, and Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature." Her articles have appeared in various journals, including "Religion and Literature and Canadian Re-view of Comparative Literature."
Elli Dehnavi
Elli Dehnavi has a PhD in Comparative Literature and is currently a sessional instructor at the University of Alberta, where she teaches courses on women’s literature and cinema, world literature, and popular culture. Her interdisciplinary re-search focuses on Middle Eastern cinema, women’s literature from Islamicate cultures, modern Persian literature, and gender politics. Her academic and creative writing publications and her translations have been published in Iran and Canada. Her article “Motherhood and Masculinity in Atiq Rahimi’s Syngue Sabour” appeared in the book Screening Mothers: Motherhood in Contemporary World Cinemas (Demeter, 2016). In addition to her academic teaching and research, she works with community-based organizations as a public educator and research consultant.
Veronica Thompson
Veronica Thompson is Associate Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Athabasca University. Her research interests include Canadian and Australian literatures, South Asian women’s literature, postcolonial literatures and theories, and women’s literature and feminist theories. Her current research focuses on representations of terrorism in postcolonial writing and she is a founding member of the "Challenging Precarity: A Global Network" research network. She is the co-editor of "Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture and Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature."
Foreword
Veronica Thompson
Iranian Short Fiction of the Fifth Generation: An Introduction
Elli Dehnavi and Manijeh Mannani
List of Contributors
Fereshteh Ahmadi, “No Head on Her Shoulders.”
Translation and Introduction by Caroline Croskery
Behnaz Alipour-Gaskari, “The Crane.”
Translation and Introduction by Khatereh Sheibani
Azardokht Bahrami, “Tuesday Nights.”
Translation and Introduction by Manijeh Mannani
Peyman Esmaeili, “Water World.”
Translation and Introduction by Elli Dehnavi
Hamed Esmaeilion, “Bahâdor.”
Translation and Introduction by Mahdi Ganjavi
Hamed Habibi; “Where the Auto-repair Shops End.”
Translation and Introduction by Marta Simidchieva
Hafez Khiavi, “The Moon Shone on the Grave.”
Translation and Introduction by Babak Elahi
Mahsa Mohebali, “Being in Love in Footnotes.”
Translation and Introduction by Madeleine Voegeli
Mehdi Rabbi, “Mausoleum.”
Translation and Introduction by Susan Niazi
Amir H. Yazdanbod, “Someone Like Sonya.”
Translation and Introduction by Farideh Goldin