TY - BOOK AU - Olszewska ,Zuzanna,1978-. TI - The pearl of Dari : : poetry and personhood among young Afghans in Iran / T2 - (Public cultures of the Middle East and North Africa) SN - 9780253017529 AV - DS269.A34. O579 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Bloomington : PB - Indiana University Press, KW - Mo`asseseh-ye Farhangi-ye Dorr-e Dari KW - Afghans KW - Iran KW - Intellectual life KW - Social conditions KW - Refugees KW - Afghanistan KW - Dari poetry KW - Social aspects N1 - Contents: Preface—Acknowledgments—A note on the translations, transliteration, and dates—Introduction—1. Border crossings and fractured selves : a history of the Afghan Presence in Iran—2. The melancholy modern : the rise of a refugee intelligentsia—3. Afghan literary organizations in post revolutionary Iran—4. The social lives of poets and poetry—5. Modern love : poetry, companionate marriage, and recrafting the self—6. “When your darun speaks to you” : ethics of revelation and concealment in lyric poetry—Conclusion—Epilogue—Note—References—Index ER -