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Author:
Naghibi, Nima, author.
Title:
Women write Iran : nostalgia and human rights from the diaspora / Nima Naghibi.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subject:
American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Iranian Americans--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Exiles' writings, Iranian--History and criticism.
Autobiography.
Autobiographical memory in literature.
Nostalgia in literature.
Human rights--Iran.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
0816683824
9780816683826
0816683840
9780816683840
OCLC:
(OCoLC)911004678
LCCN:
2015019413
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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