Pardis Dabashi is an assistant professor of literature and film at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/modernity, Politics/Letters, and elsewhere. She is also the coordinator of the PMLA special feature “Cultures of Argument,” forthcoming in the October 2020 issue.
Pardis Dabashi
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B-Sides: Iraj Pezeshkzad’s “My Uncle Napoleon”
In the central courtyard, in the middle of a family party, in mid-century Tehran, a fart rings out. Or was it a fart? A cat? A cat’s fart? The sound of a chair being …
