In the central courtyard, in the middle of a family party, in mid-century Tehran, a fart rings out. Or was it a fart? A cat? A cat’s fart? The sound of a chair being ...

Pardis Dabashi
Pardis Dabashi is an assistant professor of literature and film at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/modernity, Politics/Letters, and elsewhere. She is also the coordinator of the PMLA special feature “Cultures of Argument,” forthcoming in the October 2020 issue.