Beyzaie's Formation, Forms and Themes

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Notes

¹Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London and New York, 1990), 145.

²For a more detailed examination of this quality in Beyzaie's work and echoes, in Persian, of the discussion here, see Saeed Talajooy, “Shahr, Khaneh va Khanevadeh: Revayat-e Tajaddod dar Kalagh va Shayad Vaqti Digar-e Bahram Beyzaie,” Iran-Nameh 27, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 142–61. For more on “epistemic privilege, see Bat-Ami Bar On, “Marginality and Epistemic Privilege,” in Feminist Epistemologies, ed. Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter (London, 1993), 83–100.

⁴Bahram Beyzaie, “Interview,” Cinema (September 1977), quoted in Baqer Parham, “Kudak, Zan, Gharibeh va Taqdir-e Tarikhi,” in Majmueh Maqalat dar Naqd va Moa'refi-e Asar-e Bahram Beyzaie, ed. Zaven Ghukasian (Tehran, 1999), 27.

⁵Bahram Beyzaee, “Interview with National TV” (1979), quoted in Parham, (1999): 26.

³For ta'ziyeh and other Iranian performing traditions, see Bahram Beyzaie, Namayesh dar Iran (Tehran, 1365). For brief descriptions of the major forms, see Saeed Talajooy, “Indigenous Performing Traditions in Post-Revolutionary Iranian Theatre,” Iranian Studies 44, no. 4 (July 2011), 497–519.

⁶See Saeed Talajooy, “Iranian Drama and the Aesthetics of Gender Relations and Religiosity: Mohammad Rahmanian's Ashaqeh,” in Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music, ed. Saeed Talajooy and Karima Laachir (New York, 2012), 98–120.

⁷Available Translations of Beyzaie's plays include the following. Bahram Beyzaie, “The Puppets,” “Evening in a Strange Land” and “The Story of the Hidden Moon,” in Modern Persian Drama: An Anthology, ed. Gisèle Kapuscinski, (Lanham, MD, 1987); Bahram Beyzaie, Death of Yazdgerd, trans. Manuchehr Anvar (Tehran, 1989); Bahram Beyzaie, “Four Boxes,” trans. M.R. Ghanoonparavar, in An Anthology of Iranian Drama, ed. M.R. Ghanoonparvar and John Green (Costa Mesa, 1989); Bahram Beyzaie, “Aurash” and “The Death of Yazdgerd,” in Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran, trans. Soheil Parsa with Peter Farbridge and Brian Quirt (Toronto, 2007); Bahram Beyzaie, Memoirs of the Actor in a Supporting Role, trans. M.R. Ghanoonparvar (Costa Mesa, 2010).

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Saeed Talajooy

Saeed Talajooy teaches Persian language, literature and culture at the University of Cambridge.