Buch, Englisch, 221 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 298 g
ISBN: 978-1-349-50245-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration, exile, and life between different and often clashing cultures.
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Research
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
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Introduction PART I: TROUBLED HERITAGE 1. Explaining Departure: Narratives of Victimicy 2. A Usable Past: Construction of Religion and Alternative Identifications PART II: LANGUAGE, BODY, AND THE IRANIAN-AMERICAN SELF 3. The Interplay of Language and Identity Construction 4. The Iranian-American Body In Between PART III: CULTURE INHERITED/IN FLUX 5. Between Fiction and Fact: Telling the Iranian-American Self 6. Relative Identities: The Iranian-American Self in Its Relation to Others 7. Imagining "Home:" Between Persian Paradise and American Arcadia Conclusion
