4: Gendered Stereotypes and Cross- Cultural Moral Values through the Eyes of Kurban Said

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Notes on Editions of and References to Ali and Nino ix
5. Introduction: Ali and Nino as World Literature 1
6. 1: Ali and Nino: The Novel as/of Cultural Translation 15
7. 2: Crossing Borders, Crossing Disciplines: Ali and Nino in the Twenty-First Century 29
8. 3: Glowing Rubies and Persian Daggers: The Role of Persian Poetry in Ali and Nino 50
9. 4: Gendered Stereotypes and Cross- Cultural Moral Values through the Eyes of Kurban Said 73
10. 5: Orientalist Itineraries: Cultural Hegemony, Gender, Race, and Religion in Ali and Nino 89
11. 6: Gendered Conflicts in Muslim and Christian Cultures: Honor (and Shame) in Ali and Nino 114
12. 7: Love and Politics: Retelling History in Ali and Nino and Artush and Zaur 135
13. 8: “Herr Professor, Please: We’d Rather Stay in Asia”: Ali Khan Shirvanshir and the Spaces of Baku 152
14. 9: The Female Body and the Seduction of Modernity in Ali and Nino 168
15. 10: Seeing the Unseen: Symbolic Writing in Ali and Nino 189
16. 11: Ali and Nino and Jewish Questions 210
17. 12: Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: Culture, Identity, and the “Clash of Civilizations” in Ali and Nino 227
18. Works Cited 251
19. Contributors 263
20. Index 269