Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature

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Tác giả: Edited by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-13: 978-1771990158

ISBN-13: 978-1927356869

ISBN-13: 978-1927356876

ISBN-13: 978-1927356883

ISBN: aupress/9781927356869.01

Ký hiệu phân loại: 891.5509 Iranian literatures

Thông tin xuất bản: Edmonton, AB : Athabasca University Press, 2015

Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (272 p.)

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 202608

The current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perceptions of Iran and Iranians in the West. Such perceptions do not reflect the complex evolution of Iranian identity that occurred in the years following the Constitutional Revolution (1906-11) and the anti-imperialist Islamic Revolution of 1979. Despite the Iranian government's determined pursuance of anti-Western policies and strict conformity to religious principles, the film and literature of Iran reflect the clash between a nostalgic pride in Persian tradition and an apparent infatuation with a more Eurocentric modernity. In Familiar and Foreign, Mannani and Thompson set out to explore the tensions surrounding the ongoing formulation of Iranian identity by bringing together essays on poetry, novels, memoir, and films. These include both canonical and less widely theorized texts, as well as works of literature written in English by authors living in diaspora. Challenging neocolonialist stereotypes, these critical excursions into Iranian literature and film reveal the limitations of collective identity as it has been configured within and outside of Iran. Through the examination of works by, among others, the iconic female poet Forugh Farrokhzad, the expatriate author Goli Taraqqi, the controversial memoirist Azar Nafisi, and the graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, this volume engages with the complex and contested discourses of religion, patriarchy, and politics that are the contemporary product of Iran's long and revolutionary history.
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