Iranian Diaspora Literature of Women / / Leila Samadi Rendy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Samadi Rendy, Leila,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Modern Orient ; 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)

This book examines the rela­ti­onship between space, bilin­gua­lism, and writing, and female charac­ters’ iden­tity forma­tion in the late literary produc­tions of Iranian women in the Dias­pora, such as ›To See and See Again‹ by Tara Bahram­pour, ›Funny in Farsi‹ by Firoozeh Dumas, ›Lipstick Jihad‹ by Azadeh Moaveni, and ›Saffron Sky‹ by Gelareh Asayesh, hereby using post-colo­nial and post­mo­dern theo­ries of bilin­gua­lism, space, auto­bio­graphy and gender. Some years before and after the Islamic revo­lu­tion in Iran in 1979, a huge number of Iranians migrated to western coun­tries due to social and political prob­lems. There is a signi­fi­cant body of literary and auto­bio­gra­phical works by Iranian writers in the Dias­pora during the last 50 years. In the last two decades, more literary and auto­bio­gra­phical works have been concerned with the private aspect of the lives of the charac­ters in the Dias­pora and the (trans)forma­tion of their iden­tity and the lingu­istic and cultural hybri­dity. This hybri­dity and the iden­tity issues become more signi­fi­cant in the works of women writers, as they are doubly margi­na­lised as immi­grants in the host land and second sex within patri­archy. There have been only a few critical works on the recent literary and auto­bio­gra­phical works of Iranian female writers in the Dias­pora.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Abstract -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Space And Gender -- Chapter Three: Bilingualism And Gender -- Chapter Four: Writing And Gender -- Chapter Five: Conclusion -- Appendix I: Selected Bibliography Of The Literary Works Of Iranian Women In The Diaspora -- Appendix II: Short Biographies Of The Authors -- Works Cited -- Index