Hossein Nazari

Representing Post-Revolutionary Iran (eBook, ePUB)

Captivity, Neo-Orientalism, and Resistance in Iranian-American Life Writing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Memoirs of diasporic Iranian-American authors are a unique and culturally powerful way in which Iran, its politics, and people are understood in the USA and the rest of the world. This book offers an analysis of the processes of production, promotion, and reception of the representations of post-revolutionary Iran. The book provides new perspectives on some of the most famous examples of the genre such as Betty Mahmoody's Not Without My Daughter, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, and Fatemeh Keshavarz's Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran. Hossein Nazari places these texts in their social, historical, and political contexts, tracing their origins within the trope of the American captivity narrative, teasing out and critiquing neo-Orientalist tendencies within, and finally focusing on modes of discursive resistance to neo-Orientalist narratives. The book analyzes the structural means by which stereotypes about Islam and women in the Islamic Republic in these narratives are privileged by news media and the creative industries, while also charting a growing number of 'counterhegemonic' memoirs which challenge these narratives by representing more nuanced accounts of life in Iran after 1979.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755617388
• Artikelnr.: 63956596

Autorenporträt

Hossein Nazari is Assistant Professor at the University of Tehran, Iran. He holds a PhD from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Narrative
Tales of Caution and Mixed Marriage Menace
Ghosting Ghastly Narratives
West Meets East: Clash of Civilization and Un-Civilization
Writing Iranians Colonially
Defilement and Contamination
The Cult of Iranian Domesticity
Affirmation, Negation, and Bestialization
Multitudinous Others
Linguistic Sovereignty
The Mad Muslim Man
Going Native: From American Gentleman to Iranian Brute
"Veiled Humanity": The Oriental Accomplice
Willing Convicts Vs. Western Rebels
The Villain Writes Back
Chapter 3: Damsels in Distress: Writing Muslim "Lolitas" in the West
Reading Azar Nafisi in the U.S.
The Front Cover Controversy
Behind the Veil: The Topos Obligé of Feminist Orientalism
Bridging the "Oriental Harem" to the "Free World"
From Neo-Orientalism to Neo-Conservatism
From 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 Monolith
The Rebellious Bard
Reinscribing Iranian Masculinity
The Latter-Day Persian Scheherazade
Unmasking Lolita in the West
Humanizing the Persian Patriarch
Reading Beyond Jasmine and Stars