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TAGS: * Arts and crafts; - Literature; - Metaphors and allegories; Bahiyyih Nakhjavani; Historical fiction; Reading; Ṭáhirih Qurratu'l-'Ayn
Abstract:
Nakhjavani’s historical novel includes metaphors that underscore a link between the secular and the sacred through the material and metaphysical act of reading; cf. McClure’s Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison.
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A Postsecular Look at the Reading Motif in Bahiyyih Nakhjavani's The Woman Who Read Too Much

Mary A. Sobhani

published in Journal of Bahá'í Studies

25:1-2, pp. 73-99

Ottawa: Association for Bahá'í Studies North America, 2015

About: This article is a work of literary analysis. As such, it analyzes the reading motif in Bahiyyih Nakhjavani’s The Woman Who Read Too Much through a postsecular prism. Nakhjavani’s historical novel, as the title suggests, is densely woven with metaphors that underscore a link between the secular and the sacred through the act of reading. Through the metaphors employed in the novel, the act of reading is shown to be both a material and a metaphysical act. This study owes a significant debt to John McClure’s Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison.
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