TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rahimieh,Nasrin
TI  - Missing Persians: discovering voices in Iranian cultural history 
SN  - 0815628374 (pbk.) :
AV  - DS266 .R277 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Syracuse, N.Y.
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - Iranians
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Iran
KW  - Persian prose literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -