Representing Post-Revolutionary Iran: Captivity, Neo-Orientalism, and Resistance in Iranian–American Life Writing
Autor Hossein Nazarien Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 ian 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780755648085
ISBN-10: 0755648080
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0755648080
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția I.B.Tauris
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Of interest to scholars and students of Middle East, Iranian, postcolonial and comparative literary studies
Notă biografică
Hossein Nazari is Assistant Professor at the University of Tehran, Iran. He has published widely in international peer reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. He holds a PhD from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Cuprins
Chapter 1: Introduction: Inscribing Iran in the West Historical Significance and Earliest Figurations Fabricating an "Axis of Evil"Constructing the Iranian Other Iranian Others in Others' Literature Chapter 2: Not Without My Daughter: The Mother of Neo-Orientalist Best-sellers Resurrecting the American Captivity NarrativeTales of Caution and Mixed Marriage MenaceGhosting Ghastly NarrativesWest Meets East: Clash of Civilization and Un-Civilization Writing Iranians ColoniallyDefilement and Contamination The Cult of Iranian Domesticity Affirmation, Negation, and Bestialization Multitudinous Others Linguistic SovereigntyThe Mad Muslim ManGoing Native: From American Gentleman to Iranian Brute"Veiled Humanity": The Oriental AccompliceWilling Convicts Vs. Western RebelsThe Villain Writes Back Chapter 3: Damsels in Distress: Writing Muslim "Lolitas" in the WestReading Azar Nafisi in the U.S. The Front Cover ControversyBehind the Veil: The Topos Obligé of Feminist OrientalismBridging the "Oriental Harem" to the "Free World"From Neo-Orientalism to Neo-ConservatismFrom the Western Canon to the West's Cannons Curricular and Minority Questions The Western Novel Ahistorical Historicism and Learned Amnesia Chapter 4: Strains of Dissent and a Fledgling Alternative Discourse Jasmine and Stars: Cracking the Orientalist MonolithThe Rebellious Bard Reinscribing Iranian MasculinityThe Latter-Day Persian ScheherazadeUnmasking Lolita in the WestHumanizing the Persian PatriarchReading Beyond Jasmine and Stars
Recenzii
A fruitful introductory guide for the reading and discussing of diaspora literature.
Hossein Nazari's critical account of three Iranian-American women's memoirs is an important study of neo-Orientalism and its negative consequences for geopolitics, feminism, and comparative religions. Until we stop using Islamic cultures for our own Western purposes, there will be little mutual understanding. More than an astute work of literary criticism, this book is also a lesson in political wisdom.
Representing Post-Revolutionary Iran is a critical study of Iranian-American memoirs, highlighting the importance of paying attention to representation, and to the enduring nature of Orientalist stereotypes. Thorough, nuanced, and timely, Nazari's work directs our gaze to the interwoven nature of memory and culture and reminds us of the work memoirs do in constructing our understandings of place.
Iranian-American women who write memoirs are doing much more than writing self-narratives, argues Hossein Nazari in his illuminating analyses that take up some of the most urgent questions about the fraught relations between Iran and the United States. As his astute and timely study indicates, these women are (un)wittingly engaging in political work that is co-opted for promoting Western interventionist agendas. His exploration of three paradigmatic memoirs penned by Iranian-American women unveils their political implications and the mechanism behind keeping conscious the collective Western memory that renders Iran the greatest threat to democracy and Islam the root of all evil. Deployed in the post-9/11 milieu, neo-Orientalist discourse has perpetuated misrepresentations of this Middle-Eastern country. Nazari addresses how Not Without My Daughter and Reading Lolita in Tehran owe their popularity to their alignment with the grand narratives promoted by Western governments and expected by mass markets. Bringing a new reading to Jasmine and Stars, Nazari argues that its attention to cultural complexities offers an alternative, resistant narrative. Nazari's work is important for not just literary studies but for all who care about the troubled history of Iran and the US. It points the way to future studies on this exigent topic.
Hossein Nazari's critical account of three Iranian-American women's memoirs is an important study of neo-Orientalism and its negative consequences for geopolitics, feminism, and comparative religions. Until we stop using Islamic cultures for our own Western purposes, there will be little mutual understanding. More than an astute work of literary criticism, this book is also a lesson in political wisdom.
Representing Post-Revolutionary Iran is a critical study of Iranian-American memoirs, highlighting the importance of paying attention to representation, and to the enduring nature of Orientalist stereotypes. Thorough, nuanced, and timely, Nazari's work directs our gaze to the interwoven nature of memory and culture and reminds us of the work memoirs do in constructing our understandings of place.
Iranian-American women who write memoirs are doing much more than writing self-narratives, argues Hossein Nazari in his illuminating analyses that take up some of the most urgent questions about the fraught relations between Iran and the United States. As his astute and timely study indicates, these women are (un)wittingly engaging in political work that is co-opted for promoting Western interventionist agendas. His exploration of three paradigmatic memoirs penned by Iranian-American women unveils their political implications and the mechanism behind keeping conscious the collective Western memory that renders Iran the greatest threat to democracy and Islam the root of all evil. Deployed in the post-9/11 milieu, neo-Orientalist discourse has perpetuated misrepresentations of this Middle-Eastern country. Nazari addresses how Not Without My Daughter and Reading Lolita in Tehran owe their popularity to their alignment with the grand narratives promoted by Western governments and expected by mass markets. Bringing a new reading to Jasmine and Stars, Nazari argues that its attention to cultural complexities offers an alternative, resistant narrative. Nazari's work is important for not just literary studies but for all who care about the troubled history of Iran and the US. It points the way to future studies on this exigent topic.