{"title":"Rereading a Life: Forugh Farrokzad as a Poet of the Sacred and the Self","authors":"Ayat Agah","doi":"10.1353/rel.2021.0031","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:While often lauded for her groundbreaking poetry that challenged cultural and literary norms of her time, Forugh Farrokhzad is not commonly regarded as a poet who wrote of the sacred. In this paper, I build on the literary analysis of Fatemeh Keshavarz, who reads Farrokhzad's poetry as a form of \"sacred-making,\" to consider Farrokhzad's poetic act of naming the sacred as an epistemic act that models a means of redefining the sacred outside of traditional, patriarchal interpretations. I discuss the implications of the individual act of naming the sacred as a form of producing religious knowledge in relation to the ongoing theological discourse within Muslim communities and more importantly, as a way defining one's relationship to the sacred.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"50 1","pages":"23 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2021.0031","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:While often lauded for her groundbreaking poetry that challenged cultural and literary norms of her time, Forugh Farrokhzad is not commonly regarded as a poet who wrote of the sacred. In this paper, I build on the literary analysis of Fatemeh Keshavarz, who reads Farrokhzad's poetry as a form of "sacred-making," to consider Farrokhzad's poetic act of naming the sacred as an epistemic act that models a means of redefining the sacred outside of traditional, patriarchal interpretations. I discuss the implications of the individual act of naming the sacred as a form of producing religious knowledge in relation to the ongoing theological discourse within Muslim communities and more importantly, as a way defining one's relationship to the sacred.