My Shadow Is My Skin : : Voices from the Iranian Diaspora / / ed. by Leila Emery, Katherine Whitney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Abdoh, Salar,; Afrasiabi, Dena,; Atai, Maryam,; Atefat-Peckham, Darius,; Attaran, Nazanine,; Chaffa, Mandana,; Copeland, Cyrus M.,; Darznik, Jasmin,; Day, Shireen,; Elahi, Babak,; Emery, Leila,; Etaat, Shideh,; Fallahazad, Omid,; Farzaneh, Leyla,; Fatemi, Farnaz,; Ferrazares, Roia,; Karim, Persis,; Louwers, Renata Khoshroo,; Malek, Amy,; Missaghi, Poupeh,; Namy, Raha,; Okasi, Mehdi Tavana,; Rafinejad, Daniel,; Rahmim, Sacrifices Iraj Isaac,; Rajabzadeh, Shokoofeh,; Razavi, Layla Maryam,; Rod, Dena,; Sayrafiezadeh, Saïd,; Sedarat, Roger,; Varzi, Roxanne,; Vossoughi, Siamak,; Whitney, Katherine,
• HerausgeberIn: Emery, Leila,; Whitney, Katherine,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)

The Iranian revolution of 1979 launched a vast, global diaspora, with many Iranians establishing new lives in the United States. In the four decades since, the diaspora has expanded to include not only those who emigrated immediately after the revolution but also their American-born children, more recent immigrants, and people who married into Iranian families, all of whom carry their own stories of trauma, triumph, adversity, and belonging that reflect varied and nuanced perspectives on what it means to be Iranian or Iranian American. The essays in My Shadow Is My Skin are these stories. This collection brings together thirty-two authors, both established and emerging, whose writing captures the diversity of Iranian diasporic experiences. Reflecting on the Iranian American experience over the past forty years and shedding new light on themes of identity, duality, and alienation in twenty-first-century America, the authors present personal narratives of immigration, sexuality, marginalization, marriage, and religion that offer an antidote to the news media’s often superficial portrayals of Iran and the people who have a connection to it. My Shadow Is My Skin illuminates a community that rarely gets to tell its own story.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Light/Shadow -- The Summer I Disappeared -- Sacrifices -- Shadow Nation -- Two Minutes to Midnight -- When We Were Lions -- Fortune-Tellers -- Silkscreen -- Hookah, Once upon a Time -- Think of the Trees -- Pushing the Boundaries -- Uninvited Guest -- Coding/Decoding -- The Name on My Coffee Cup -- Negotiating Memories -- In Praise of Big Noses -- Transmutations of/by Language -- Gilad, My Enemy -- Two Countries, One Divided Self -- Mothering across the Cultural Divide -- My Mom Killed Michael Jackson -- Am I an Immigrant? -- 1,916 Days -- Culture beyond Language -- Memory/Longing -- Forget Me Not -- Errand -- The Color of the Bricks -- Renounce and Abjure All Allegiance -- Learning Farsi -- Delam Tang Shodeh -- Walking with Zahra -- Halva -- Her Orange-Blossom Tea -- The Iranians of Mercer Island -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors