Familiar and foreign : : identity in Iranian film and literature / / edited by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson.

• TeilnehmendeR: Thompson, Veronica, 1963-; Mannani, Manijeh, 1964-
• Place / Publishing House: Edmonton, Alberta : : AU Press,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)

Table of Contents

Familiar and foreign: An introduction / Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson -- The development of the artistic feamale self in the poetry or Forugh Farrokhzad / Safaneh Mohaghegh Neyshabouri -- Overcoming gender : the impact of the Persian language on Iranian women's confessional literature / Farideh Dayanim Goldin -- Autobiomythography and self-aggrandizement in Iranian diasporic life-writing: Fatemeh Keshavarz and Azar Nafisi / Manijeh Mannani -- Graphic memories: dialogues with self and other in Marjane Satrapi'sPersepolis and Persepolis / Mostafa Abedinifard -- Mr. and Mrs. F and the woman: personal identities in Zoya Pirzad's Like All the Afternoons / Madeleine Voegeli -- Anxious men: sexuality and systems of disavowal in contemporary Iranian literature / Blake Atwood -- Reading the exile's body: deafness and diasporta in Kader Abdolah's My Father's Notebook / Babak Elahi -- Persian literature of exile in France: Goli Taraqqi's short stories/ Laetitia Nanquette -- Farang represented: the construction of self-space in Goli Taraqqi's fiction / Goulia Ghardashkhani -- Film as alternative history: the aesthetics of Bahram Beizai / Khatereh Sheibani -- Technologies of memory, identity, and oblivion in in Persepolis (2007) and Waltz with Bashir (2008) / William Anselmi and Sheena Wilson.