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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Naghibi, Nima (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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