Abstract This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose. It constructs from the prison memoirs of the dissident writers ʿAli Dashti, Bozorg ʿAlavi, and Reza Baraheni a genealogy of the emergence of prison consciousness in Iranian modernity, across both the Pahlavi and post-revolutionary periods. The modern Iranian prose of incarceration is situated within an account of the prison as a site where the modern technologies of the state are refined. As I trace resonances between the long history of prison writing across the Islamic world and the prison literature of modern Iran, I consider how we can better understand the relation between prose and literary representation in modern Middle Eastern literatures.

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作为法庭的文学：现代伊朗的监禁散文

摘要 本文考察了现代伊朗散文中监狱回忆录的发展。它根据持不同政见的作家 ʿAli Dashti、Bozorg ʿAlavi 和 Reza Baraheni 的监狱回忆录构建了伊朗现代性中监狱意识出现的谱系，跨越巴列维时期和后革命时期。现代伊朗的监禁散文位于监狱的描述中，监狱是完善国家现代技术的场所。当我追溯整个伊斯兰世界的监狱写作的悠久历史与现代伊朗的监狱文学之间的共鸣时，我考虑如何更好地理解现代中东文学中散文与文学表现之间的关系。