Women write Iran [electronic resource] :nostalgia and human rights from the diaspora / Nima Naghibi.
By: Naghibi, Nima.
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781452950044; 1452950040.Subject(s): Human rights -- Iran | Nostalgia in literature | Autobiographical memory in literature | Autobiography -- Iranian American authors -- History and criticism | Exiles' writings, Iranian -- History and criticism | Iranian Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism | American prose literature -- Iranian American authors -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 818/.6030992870899155 Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: righting the past -- Claiming Neda -- Human rights, humanitarianism, and empathic witnessing: prison memoirs -- Feeling nostalgic, feeling guilty: remembering Iran in documentary film -- Repetitions of the past: Marjane Satrapi and intergenerational memory -- Revolution, nostalgia, and memory in diasporic Iranian memoirs -- Conclusion: testimonial life narratives: anonymity and visibility.
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