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Familiar and foreign : identity in Iranian film and literature /

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 followi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mannani, Manijeh, 1964- (Editor ), Thompson, Veronica, 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edmonton, AB : AU Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 2. Overcoming Gender: The Impact of the Persian Language on Iranian Women's Confessional Literature / Farideh Dayanim Goldin
  • 3. Autobiomythography and Self-Aggrandizement in Iranian Diasporic Life-Writing: Fatemeh Keshavarz and Azar Nafisi / Manijeh Mannani
  • 4. Graphic Memories: Dialogues with Self and Other in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Persepolis 2 / Mostafa Abedinifard
  • 5. Mr. and Mrs. F and the Woman: Personal Identities in Zoya Pirzad's Like All the Afternoons / Madeleine Voegeli
  • 6. Anxious Men: Sexuality and Systems of Disavowal in Contemporary Iranian Literature / Blake Atwood
  • 7. Reading the Exile's Body: Deafness and Diaspora in Kader Abdolah's My Father's Notebook / Babak Elahi
  • 8. Persian Literature of Exile in France: Goli Taraqqi's Short Stories / Laetitia Nanquette
  • 9. Farang Represented: The Construction of Self-Space in Goli Taraqqi's Fiction / Goulia Ghardashkhani
  • 10. Film as Alternative History: The Aesthetics of Bahram Beizai / Khatereh Sheibani
  • 11. Technologies of Memory, Identity, and Oblivion in Persepolis (2007) and Waltz with Bashir (2008) / Sheena Wilson.