Exiled Memories : Stories of Iranian Diaspora

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Zohreh T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exiles--United States.

Exiles--United States--Interviews.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants--United States--Interviews.

Iran--History--Revolution, 1979.

Iran--History--Revolution, 1979--Personal narratives.

Iranian Americans.

Iranian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Iranian Americans--Interviews.

Iranian Americans--Social conditions.

Iranian Americans--Ethnic identity--United States--Interviews.

Immigrants--Social conditions--United States--Interviews.

Immigrants.

Exiles--Interviews.

Exiles.

Iran.

Local Subjects:

Exiles--United States.

Exiles--United States--Interviews.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants--United States--Interviews.

Iran--History--Revolution, 1979.

Iran--History--Revolution, 1979--Personal narratives.

Iranian Americans.

Iranian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Iranian Americans--Interviews.

Iranian Americans--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""I feel I am the wandering Jew who has no place to which she belongs. I thought I could settle down, but can't imagine staying. Whenever I bought a bar of soap and two came in the package, I thought there would be no need to buy a package of two because I would never last through the second. Why? Because I knew I was returning to Iran -- tomorrow. So too, I would buy the smallest size of toothpastes and jars of oil. Putting down roots here is an impossibility.""These are the words of one Iranian emigre, driven from Tehran by the revolution of 1979. They are echoed time and again

Contents:

Contents; Preface, or, How I Started Story Gathering; Acknowledgments; Iran and the United States: A Chronology; Chapter 1 Introduction: Fabricating Identity; Chapter 2 There: Remembering Home; Zia AshrafNasr; Pari (pseud.); Mohamad Tavakoli; Lily; Hamid Na.cy; Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa; Afsaneh Najmabadi; Tahereh (pseud.); Homa Sarshar; Mandana (pseud.); Roqeyeh Arbat Kazemi; Fereydoun Sa.zadeh; Rebwar Kurdi (pseud.); Jahan Kurd (pseud.); Daryoosh; Kambys Shirazi (pseud.); Keyvan; Soheyl (pseud.); Ali Behdad; Chapter 3 Revolution: Narrating Upheaval; Faranak; Pari (pseud.); Lily; Homa Sarshar

Mandana (pseud.)Afsaneh Najmabadi; Tahereh (pseud.); Mrs. Ghandsaz (pseud.); Zia AshrafNasr; Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa; Barbod; Rebwar Kurdi (pseud.); Kambys Shirazi (pseud.); Mehrdad Haghighi; Yahya (pseud.); Professor Ali (pseud.); Fereydoun Sa.zadeh; Keyvan; Ali Behdad; Soheyl (pseud.); Chapter 4 Here: Reconstructing Migration and Exile; Rebwar Kurdi (pseud.); Barbod; Mehrdad Haghighi; Lily; Homa Sarshar; Mandana (pseud.); Professor Ali (pseud.); Yahya (pseud.); Pari (pseud.); Afsaneh Najmabadi; Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa; Tahereh (pseud.); Hamid Na.cy; Ramin Sobhan (pseud.); Ali Behdad; Zia AshrafNasr

Susan BazarganChapter 5 Epilogue; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612896200

9781282896208

1282896202

9781439906415

1439906416

OCLC:

676697461