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Missing Persians

Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History

By: Nasrin Rahimieh

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Missing Persians

Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History

By: Nasrin Rahimieh

Missing Persians serves to articulate in elegant, vibrant prose the disparate and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Nasrin Rahimieh's complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate the links that her five figures have to a stable Persian identity—complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change. Rahimieh delineates the captivating histories of "missing" Persians from the sixteenth century to modern times and defines the arbitrary generic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, and social histories. Balancing their documentary and historical value with creative and fictional elements, she reads them as individual engagements with broader questions of Persian identity at different moments of the nation's history. As modes of self-expression, these texts reveal both remnants of traditional Persian literary forms and new styles adopted through translations and readings in European literature and history. Even as it sheds new light on crucial points in cultural self-definition, Missing Persians offers a fresh look at traditional institutions, the role of women, and Persia's turbulent struggle to enter modernity on its own terms.

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Syracuse University Press

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081562753X

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9780815627531

Iranian Culture

Representation and Identity

By: Nasrin Rahimieh

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Iranian Culture

Representation and Identity

By: Nasrin Rahimieh

Throughout modern Iranian history, culture has served as a means of imposing unity and cohesion onto society. The Pahlavi monarchs used it to project an image of Iran as an ancient civilisation, re-emerging as an equal to Western nations, while the revolutionaries deployed it to remake the country into an Islamic nation. Just as Iranian culture has been continually re-interpreted, the representations and avocations of Iranian identity vary amongst Iranians across the world. Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity demonstrates these fissures and the incompatibilities that refuse to be written out of national culture, analysing works of literature, popular music, graphic art and film, as well as oral narratives. Using works produced before and after the 1979 revolution, created both inside and outside of Iran, this study reveals neglected complexities and contradictions in the field of Iranian cultural production. It considers how contested claims to culture, whether they originated in Iran or the Iranian diaspora, shape our understanding of this culture and what spaces they create for new articulations of it, and in doing so offers an important re-examination of our collective concept of culture. This book would be an excellent resource for students and scholars of Middle East Studies and Iranian Studies, specifically Iranian culture including film and contemporary literature and the Iranian diaspora.

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190

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Routledge

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1317429346

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Oriental Responses to the West

Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World

By: Nasrin Rahimieh

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Oriental Responses to the West

Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World

By: Nasrin Rahimieh

Modern writers and scholars from the Islamic East have represented actual or fictional encounters with the West in a surprising variety of ways. Far from constituting a mono- lithic approach to the West, as Western "Orientalism" often tended to, these writings reveal an interest in and sometimes acute perception of cross-cultural conflict and synthesis. The very difficulties experienced by writers and critics immersed in two or more cultures have led to new creative and innovative forms of response to the West. By shifting focus in East-West relations towards the East, it initiates further interdisciplinary discussions.

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134

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BRILL

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9004646353

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9789004646353

Iranian Culture

Representation and Identity

By: Nasrin Rahimieh

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Representation and Identity

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Missing Persians

Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History

By: Nasrin Rahimieh

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Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History

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0815628374

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Oriental Responses to the West

Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World

By: Nasrin Rahimieh

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Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World

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9004091777

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Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry

By: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw,Nasrin Rahimieh

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Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry

By: Dominic Parviz Brookshaw,Nasrin Rahimieh

The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Four decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, "Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran" brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed predicament of the contemporary Iranian woman, at once subjected to long-held traditional practices and influenced by newly introduced modern social sensibilities. Highlighting her literary and cinematic innovation, this volume examines the unique place Farrokhzad occupies in Iran, both among modern Persian poets in general and as an Iranian woman writer in particular. The authors also explore Farrokhzad's appeal outside Iran in the Iranian diasporic imagination and through the numerous translations of her poetry into English. It is a fitting and authoritative tribute to the work of a remarkable woman which will introduce and explain her legacy for a 21st-century audience."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Missing Persians

Missing Persians

Iranian Culture

Iranian Culture

Oriental Responses to the West

Oriental Responses to the West

Iranian Culture

Iranian Culture

Missing Persians

Missing Persians

Oriental Responses to the West

Oriental Responses to the West

Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

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