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Women write Iran : nostalgia and human rights from the diaspora /

Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates narratives across genres (including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels) and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Naghibi, Nima (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: righting the past
  • Claiming Neda
  • Human rights, humanitarianism, and empathic witnessing: prison memoirs
  • Feeling nostalgic, feeling guilty: remembering Iran in documentary film
  • Repetitions of the past: Marjane Satrapi and intergenerational memory
  • Revolution, nostalgia, and memory in diasporic Iranian memoirs
  • Conclusion: testimonial life narratives: anonymity and visibility.