Dismembering and Re -membering the Beloved
Dismembering and Re -membering the Beloved
How the Civil Code Remade Marriage and Marriage Remade Love
This chapter examines how two canonical novels influenced the reforms of the 1931 Marriage Law and the 1936 Mandatory Unveiling Act: Sadeq Hedayat's The Blind Owl and Bozorg Alavi's Her Eyes. It explains that these novels share a similar interest in revising marriage as a plot element which can dramatically rewrite reality and influenced the marriage reforms by making a distinction between two types of marriage, hierogamy and wedlock. The chapter also argues that they share a common preoccupation with the fraught transformation of the figure of the beloved of classical poetry into a public, heterosexual partner and precursor to the role of wife.
Keywords: 1931 Marriage Law, Mandatory Veiling Act, Iran, Blind Owl, Sadeq Hedayat, Her Eyes, Bozorg Alavi, marriage, hierogamy, wedlock
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