1st Edition

Iranian Culture Representation and Identity

By Nasrin Rahimieh Copyright 2016
170 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Throughout modern Iranian history, culture has served as a means of imposing unity and cohesion onto society. The Pahlavi monarchs used it to project an image of Iran as an ancient civilisation, re-emerging as an equal to Western nations, while the revolutionaries deployed it to remake the country into an Islamic nation. Just as Iranian culture has been continually re-interpreted, the... Read more

Introduction Chapter One Back to the Future: Time Travel and Iranian Identity Chapter Two: Shooting the Past, Staging the Revolution Chapter Three Stage Managing the Return of the Repressed Chapter Four From the Displaced to the Misplaced Chapter Five The Hen’s Husband, or Deterritorializations of Persian Chapter Six Illuminating Internal Alterities Conclusion

Biography

Nasrin Rahimieh is the Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature and culture. She is author of Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Identity.

"The book is a major addition to the existing studies in Iranian culture and identity and broadens our understanding of the complexities inherent in Iranian culture and the ways Iranians are constantly performing their identities.While the  book will be of significant interest to scholars of  Iranian and Middle Eastern studies, it will also be of interest to specialists of diaspora studies, cultural studies, film studies, and literary criticism. Rahimieh’s graceful writing style and  incorporation of various cultural productions will help make the topic available to a wide readership."

Claudia Yaghoobi -Assistant Professor of International Literature, Georgia College and State University in the Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World January 2016.