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Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation: Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath
ISBN: 9789400602076
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Leiden University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Sociology ; Feminist & Women''s Studies ; Language & Literature ; Gender Studies;

Images of mirrors and reflection have long played a substantial role in literature by women, used to convey ineffable psychological states, the countless images that define and complicate women's lives, and much more. In Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation , Leila Rahimi Bahmany focuses in particular on the work of two major women writers, Persian poet Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-67) and the American Sylvia Plath (1932-63), exploring the various ways that these two artists deployed mirrors and reflections as sites of entrapment or emancipation.