ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates Persian exilic poetry in the context of contemporary Iranian literature. Based on existing scholarship on the subject of exilic poetry and exiled Iranian poets, the paper focuses on two poets: Maryam Huleh and Saghi Ghahraman. The inquiry centers on the strategic, rebellious style of writing that arose from the unconventional and nomadic lifestyles and lines of thinking of these two poets over the years. Through the principal feminist concepts of nomadic writing and subjectivity, becoming a woman, and embodiment, this chapter evaluates how the type of poetry by these poets expresses themes of sexuality, rebellious living, and revolt against hegemonic discourse on regulating the (female) body.
It further argues that the expression of the self in exile, the style of writing, and the novel portrayal of sexuality and the body culminate in a nomadic and rebellious subjectivity that is unique and remarkable in the bulk of Persian (exilic) poetry.
