Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature / by Hasti Abbasi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbasi, Hasti., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Creative writing.

World Literature.

Literary History.

Creative Writing.

Local Subjects:

World Literature.

Literary History.

Creative Writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (107 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.

Summary:

This study aims to foreground key literary works in Persian and Australian culture that deal with the representation of exile and dislocation. Through cultural and literary analysis, Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature investigates the influence of dislocation on self-perception and the remaking of connections both through the act of writing and the attempt to transcend social conventions. Examining writing and identity in David Malouf's An Imaginary Life (1978), Iranian Diaspora Literature, and Shahrnush Parsipur's Women Without Men (1989/ Eng.1998), Hasti Abbasi provides a literary analysis of dislocation, with its social and psychological manifestations. Abbasi reveals how the exploration of exile/dislocation, as a narrative that needs to be investigated through imagination and meditation, provides a mechanism for creative writing practice.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Dislocation and Writing

2. Writing in Exile

3. Malouf's An Imaginary Life

4. Parsipur's Women Without Men and Iranian Diaspora Women's Literature

5. Conclusion.

ISBN:

9783319964843

3319964844