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Missing Persians : discovering voices in Iranian cultural history / Nasrin Rahimieh.
Series: Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle EastPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 191 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0815628374 (pbk.) :
- DS266 .R277 2001
Contents:
Summary: "Missing Persians" serves to articulate in elegant, vibrant prose the disparate, dispersed, and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Nasrin Rahimieh's complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate her five figures's links to a stable Persian identity -- complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change.Summary: Rahimieh delineates the captivating histories of "missing" Persians from the sixteenth century to modern times, and defines the arbitrary genetic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, and social histories. In her analysis, the author daringly and insightfully calls into question Western concepts of discipline.Summary: Even as it sheds new light on crucial points in cultural self-definition, Missing Persians offers a fresh look at traditional institutions, the role of women, and Persia's turbulent struggle to enter modernity on its own terms.
A Conversion Gone Awry -- The Tribulations of an Early Tourist -- A New Menu for Alterity -- An Armchair Traveler's Journeys Around the Self -- A Performer Manque.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | DS 266 .R277 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 639526 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index.
A Conversion Gone Awry -- The Tribulations of an Early Tourist -- A New Menu for Alterity -- An Armchair Traveler's Journeys Around the Self -- A Performer Manque.
"Missing Persians" serves to articulate in elegant, vibrant prose the disparate, dispersed, and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Nasrin Rahimieh's complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate her five figures's links to a stable Persian identity -- complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change.
Rahimieh delineates the captivating histories of "missing" Persians from the sixteenth century to modern times, and defines the arbitrary genetic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, and social histories. In her analysis, the author daringly and insightfully calls into question Western concepts of discipline.
Even as it sheds new light on crucial points in cultural self-definition, Missing Persians offers a fresh look at traditional institutions, the role of women, and Persia's turbulent struggle to enter modernity on its own terms.
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