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Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature

Autor Hasti Abbasi
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2019
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 Literatureinvestigates 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’sAn Imaginary Life(1978), Iranian Diaspora Literature, and Shahrnush Parsipur’sWomen 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.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030072001
ISBN-10: 3030072002
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Ediția:Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1.      Introduction: Dislocation and Writing
2.      Writing in Exile
3.      Malouf’sAn Imaginary Life
3.1.   Exile and Romantic Writing
3.2.   Ovid’s Poetic Language
3.3.   Untamed Nature as a “Background to Human Drama”
3.4.   The Child: Beyond the Limits of Self-identity
3.5.   A Sense of Exile
3.6.   Metamorphoses and Metamorphoses
3.7.   Symbols: Garden and Seasons
3.8.   Sexuality and Desire
4.      Parsipur’sWomen Without Menand Iranian Diaspora Women’s Literature
4.1.   Goli Taraghi and Scriptotherapy
4.2.   Parsipur: ‘a nay-sayer’
4.3.   The Story of Parsipur’s Women and Patriarchal Subjugation
4.4.   Writing about Taboos and Ridiculing the Imposed Ideologies
4.5.   Feminine Writing
4.6.   Of Other Spaces: Garden and Heterotopias, Re-evaluation and Restoration
4.7.   Nomadic Experience of Women Without Men
4.8.   Narratives of Iranian Diaspora Women
4.9.   Lipstick Jihad and Hybrid Identity
4.10.                    Persepolis and a Third Space
5.      Conclusion

Notă biografică

Hasti Abbasiteaches Bachelor of Arts courses at Griffith University, Australia. Abbasi has been short listed for the 2018 Viva la Novella VI Prize for her novellaAnd the Raindrops Fill the Sea.


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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 Literatureinvestigates 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’sAn 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.

Caracteristici

Provides a case study for understanding exile literature broadly
Examines theories of nomadism, dislocated women, and other socio-cultural and historical aspects of feminist and women’s writing
Investigates the impact of dislocation on literary production and creative writing