M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar

In a Persian Mirror

Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This survey significantly illuminates the sources of Iranian attitudes toward the West and offers many surprising discoveries for Western readers, not least of which is the fact that Iranians have often found Westerners to be as enigmatic and incomprehens

Produktdetails

• University of Texas Press
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780292727618
• ISBN-10: 0292727615
• Artikelnr.: 26488745

Autorenporträt

A native of Iran, M. R. Ghanoonparvar is an assistant professor of Persian language and literature at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Understanding the Unknown
Chapter 3: The West in Contrast
Chapter 4: The Xenophobic Impact
Chapter 5: Split Images
Chapter 6: Post-Revolutionary Reflections
Chapter 7: Conclusion: On the Mirror and the Image Makers
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index