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Familiar and foreign : identity in Iranian film and literature / edited by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Persian literature--History and criticism.
- Persian literature.
- Motion pictures--Iran--History.
- Motion pictures.
- National characteristics, Iranian, in literature.
- National characteristics, Iranian, in motion pictures.
- Persian literature--Western influences.
- Motion pictures--Iran--Western influences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- 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, author Goli Taraqqi,memoirist Azar Nafisi, and the graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, 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.
- Contents:
- Familiar and foreign: An introduction / Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson
- The development of the artistic feamale self in the poetry or Forugh Farrokhzad / Safaneh Mohaghegh Neyshabouri
- Overcoming gender : the impact of the Persian language on Iranian women's confessional literature / Farideh Dayanim Goldin
- Autobiomythography and self-aggrandizement in Iranian diasporic life-writing: Fatemeh Keshavarz and Azar Nafisi / Manijeh Mannani
- Graphic memories: dialogues with self and other in Marjane Satrapi'sPersepolis and Persepolis / Mostafa Abedinifard
- Mr. and Mrs. F and the woman: personal identities in Zoya Pirzad's Like All the Afternoons / Madeleine Voegeli
- Anxious men: sexuality and systems of disavowal in contemporary Iranian literature / Blake Atwood
- Reading the exile's body: deafness and diasporta in Kader Abdolah's My Father's Notebook / Babak Elahi
- Persian literature of exile in France: Goli Taraqqi's short stories/ Laetitia Nanquette
- Farang represented: the construction of self-space in Goli Taraqqi's fiction / Goulia Ghardashkhani
- Film as alternative history: the aesthetics of Bahram Beizai / Khatereh Sheibani
- Technologies of memory, identity, and oblivion in in Persepolis (2007) and Waltz with Bashir (2008) / William Anselmi and Sheena Wilson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781927356883
- 1927356881
- 9781927356876
- 1927356873
- OCLC:
- 932334633
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