Manufactured Veils: A Study of Two Canadian Feminist Novels in Persian Translation after the 1979 Iranian Revolution

The patriarchal legal system and the socio-cultural institutions of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) relegate Iranian women to second-class citizens. Yet, Canadian feminist texts such as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Carol Shields's Unless (2002) have been transla...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharifi, Sima
Other Authors: von Flotow, Luise
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35677
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-634