Women Write Iran : Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora /

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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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Main Author: Naghibi, Nima (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nostalgia in literature.
Human rights.
Exiles' writings, Iranian.
Autobiography.
Autobiographical memory in literature.
American prose literature > Iranian American authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Middle Eastern.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
autobiography (genre)
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Iran.
Nostalgie dans la litterature.
Memoire episodique dans la litterature.
Autobiographie.
Litterature de l'exil iranienne > Histoire et critique.
Americains d'origine iranienne > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Human rights > Iran.
Exiles' writings, Iranian > History and criticism.
Iranian Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Iranian American authors > History and criticism.
Iran.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 Iranian revolution as a traumatic event and by a powerful nostalgia for an idealized past. Interested in writing as both an expression of memory and an assertion of human rights, Naghibi discovers that writing life narratives contributes to the larger enterprise of righting historical injustices. By drawing on the empathy of the reader/spectator/witness, Naghibi contends, life narratives offer possibilities of connecting to others and responding with a commitment to social justice. Throughout the book, the focus is on works that have become popular in the West, such as Marjane Satrapi's best-selling graphic novel Persepolis. Naghibi addresses the significant questions raised by these works: How do we engage with human rights and social justice as readers in the West? How do these narratives draw our attention and elicit our empathic reactions? And what is our responsibility as witnesses to trauma, atrocity, and human suffering?
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9781452950044

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