ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we offer an analysis of Iranian resistance literature through a dialectical critique of the notion of “resistance literature” as initially formulated in Barbara Harlow’s seminal 1987 work. Rather than constructing our arguments on Harlow’s work, however, we offer a critical perspective that transcends Harlow’s inevitable limitations and suggests that relying on and promoting a large framework for describing what constitutes resistance cannot but reproduce the same reductive and totalizing gaze that it purports to resist.
