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Author : Shusha Guppy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Blindfold Horse written by Shusha Guppy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing memoir that describes life in Iran before the revolution
Author : M. A. R. Taleghany
Publisher : Gwasg y Bwthyn
ISBN 13 : 9781909075238
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Persian Childhood written by M. A. R. Taleghany and published by Gwasg y Bwthyn. This book was released on 2014 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor Sasson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462017347
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Baghdad Childhood written by Victor Sasson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of a Baghdad Childhood depicts personal and family scenes, episodes, experiences, and impressions of the authors early life in Baghdad. Topics include the authors life in a newly-built house in Kutchet es-Saad, his al-Azeel and al-Watani school experiences, his passion for American and British films, his merchant brothers in the Shorja market, his familys enduring interest in Arabic music and musical instruments, observance of Sabbath and holy days, swimming lessons in the Tigris, the bustling al-Rasheed Street, trips to Kifel and Baquba, and delightful nights on the Jazra . The authors childhood in Baghdad, from early 1940s to about mid-1951, is viewed and portrayed in generally positive and happy light. Blame for the displacement and gradual liquidation of Babylonian Jewry is put on European political Zionists and their machinations. Memoirs of a Baghdad Childhood is an autobiographical, personal account of the authors childhood in his beloved city of Baghdad.
Author : Melanie Lowy
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456783351
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)
Download or read book A Childhood Memoir written by Melanie Lowy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stomping of black-booted automatons; the drums beating in tune to murderous chants of hatred a retentive memory of a little girl has captured it all. Her early, serene Munich childhood wiped out: a school in flame, a journey alone to England ahead. Gone is the school she loved. Parted from her adored father with whom she endured prison and worse. Stored away safely is her memory of GRAF ZEPPELIN, the hideous faces of the Nazi leaders and her love of Munich. KINDERTRANSPORT to England aged nine without friend or language leaves her traumatised unused as she is to cope with caring for herself. Stays at holiday camps; with a kind, generous Jewish family in London, then it is off once more with Jewish schoolchildren to Bedfordshire weeks before WW2. A love affair begins with the English country-side and its animal inhabitants. Evacuated to an ancient farm house with no amenities whatever, where she is joined by her pious old grandmother, she settles down to school-life in this strictly orthodox school, new friends all refugees. Through her father, a well-known poet, she discovers what is happening to Jews in Europe early on and her faith is shattered. A contrasting tale of two childhoods, one recalling a deceptively idyllic beginning; the other an awakening in a strange but charitable land and the forever haunting realisation of what has been done to her people. This is a unique portrait of childhood.
Author : Hamid Dabashi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316512851
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book An Iranian Childhood written by Hamid Dabashi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant, unique and personal examination of the overlap between history and memory, focusing on Iranian childhoods.
Author : Sanaz Fotouhi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773766X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora written by Sanaz Fotouhi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1979 Revolution in Iran caused the migration of millions of Iranians, many of whom wrote, and are still writing, of their experiences. Formed at the junctions of Iranian culture, English language and Western cultures, this body of work has not only formed a unique literary space, offering an insightful reflection of Iranian diasporic experiences and its shifting nature, but it has also been making a unique and understudied contribution to World Literatures in English as significant as Indian, African and Asian writing in English. Sanaz Fotouhi here traces the origins of the emerging body of diasporic Iranian literature in English, and uses these origins to examine the socio-political position and historical context from which they have emerged. Fotouhi brings together, introduces and analyses, for the first time, a significant range of diasporic Iranian writers alongside each other and alongside other diasporic literatures in English. While situating this body of work through existing theories such as postcolonialism, Fotouhi sheds new light on the role of Iranian literature and culture in Western literature by showing that these writings distinctively reflect experiences unique to the Iranian diaspora. Analysing the relationship between Iranians and their new surroundings, by drawing on theories of migration, narration and identity, Fotouhi examines how the literature borne out of the Iranian diaspora reconstructs, maintains and negotiates their Individual and communal identities and reflects today's socio-political realities. This book will be vital for researchers of Middle Eastern literature and its relationship with writings from the West, as well as those interested in the cultural history of the Middle East.
Author : John H. Lorentz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810876388
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The A to Z of Iran written by John H. Lorentz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphabetically arranged entries cover key individuals; major events; important institutions and organizations; and significant economic, political, social, religious, and cultural issues.
Author : Julia Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735632
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Tribeswomen of Iran written by Julia Huang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has permitted very few Western scholars to conduct research in the country. Foreign travellers and media persons have limited access and much Iranian scholarship tends to focus on the realms of politics and government. Here Julia Huang provides a remarkable account of local tribal Iranian life, offering a rare glimpse into the daily rhythms and social richness beyond the capital city of Tehran. The Qashqa'i are a confederation of nomadic tribes, of which the Qermezi ('Red Ones') are one, migrating semiannually between winter pastures near the Persian Gulf and summer pastures southwest of the city of Isfahan. Huang has visited and traveled with the Qermezi for extended periods across fourteen years. Drawing on her experiences, participation and observation, she offers an intimate window onto their life. She focuses on a small group of women spanning four generations who are part of a large extended family, and describes their ways of life, their activities and interactions, and their distinctive sociocultural and ecological setting. Like other nomadic peoples around the world, the Qashqa'i increasingly face pressures that threaten their livelihoods, lifestyles and culture. Huang shows us how women negotiate compromises between customary tribal values and external influences, and sketches their efforts to resist the influences of an Islamizing, modernizing and centralizing government. With shadows and resonances that rebound across the stories of these women, Huang is able to present multiple perspectives on events and contentious issues, for instance the politicized issue of women's state-mandated modest dress. Huang also explains how the Turkic-speaking Qashqa'i relate to the wider Iranian society and the Islamic Republic of Iran, adapting to a rapidly changing world while retaining tribal values and a distinctive ethnolinguistic identity as one of Iran's national minorities. In describing life at the local level in Iran, Huang depicts a community largely beyond the scope and reach of foreign travellers and the Western media. With rich ethnographic description and analysis, intimate portraits of the private lives and spaces of women and children, and diverse perspectives, this engagingly written account documents a disappearing way of life. 'Tribeswomen of Iran' is essential reading for all those interested in Iran, the Middle East, anthropology, nomadism and gender.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004398317
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization, Esmaeil Zeiny brings together a collection of essays that interrogate the colonial legacies, the contemporary power structure and the geopolitics of knowledge production. The scholars in this collection illustrate how the writing-back paradigm engages in a conversation and paves the way for a “dialogical and pluri-versal” world where the Rest is no longer excluded. Among the important features of this book is that it presents ways for “decoloniality” and “epistemic disobedience.” This book will be of interest to scholars and students of all Social Science and Humanities disciplines but it is particularly important for those in the disciplines of sociology, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, literature, and theory and philosophy of Social Sciences and Humanities. Contributors include: Dustin J. Byrd, Ciarunji Chesaina, Hiba Ghanem, Mladjo Ivanovic, Masumi Hashimoto Odari, Arjuna Parakrama, JM. Persánch, Andrew Ridgeway, Rudolf J. Siebert, and Esmaeil Zeiny.
Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1119 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Ethnic American Literature written by Emmanuel S. Nelson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 1119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature. This culturally rich encyclopedia contains 160 alphabetically arranged entries on African American, Asian American, Latino/a, and Native American literary traditions, among others. The book introduces the uniquely American mosaic of multicultural literature by chronicling the achievements of American writers of non-European descent and highlighting the ethnic diversity of works from the colonial era to the present. The work features engaging topics like the civil rights movement, bilingualism, assimilation, and border narratives. Entries provide historical overviews of literary periods along with profiles of major authors and great works, including Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maya Angelou, Sherman Alexie, A Raisin in the Sun, American Born Chinese, and The House on Mango Street. The book also provides concise overviews of genres not often featured in textbooks, like the Chinese American novel, African American young adult literature, Mexican American autobiography, and Cuban American poetry.
Author : Jennifer Pastiloff
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524743569
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book On Being Human written by Jennifer Pastiloff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how hearing loss taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness. Centered around the touchstone stories Jen tells in her popular workshops, On Being Human is the story of how a starved person grew into the exuberant woman she was meant to be all along by battling the demons within and winning. Jen did not intend to become a yoga teacher, but when she was given the opportunity to host her own retreats, she left her thirteen-year waitressing job and said “yes,” despite crippling fears of her inexperience and her own potential. After years of feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless, in a life that seemed to have no escape, she healed her own heart by caring for others. She has learned to fiercely listen despite being nearly deaf, to banish shame attached to a body mass index, and to rebuild a family after the debilitating loss of her father when she was eight. Through her journey, Jen conveys the experience most of us are missing in our lives: being heard and being told, “I got you.” Exuberant, triumphantly messy, and brave, On Being Human is a celebration of happiness and self-realization over darkness and doubt. Her complicated yet imperfectly perfect life path is an inspiration to live outside the box and to reject the all-too-common belief of “I am not enough.” Jen will help readers find, accept, and embrace their own vulnerability, bravery, and humanness.
Author : Hasti Abbasi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319964844
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature written by Hasti Abbasi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to foreground key literary works in Persian and Australian culture that deal with the representation of exile and dislocation. Through cultural and literary analysis, Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature investigates the influence of dislocation on self-perception and the remaking of connections both through the act of writing and the attempt to transcend social conventions. Examining writing and identity in David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life (1978), Iranian Diaspora Literature, and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men (1989/ Eng.1998), Hasti Abbasi provides a literary analysis of dislocation, with its social and psychological manifestations. Abbasi reveals how the exploration of exile/dislocation, as a narrative that needs to be investigated through imagination and meditation, provides a mechanism for creative writing practice.
Author : Manijeh Mannani
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1927356865
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (273 download)
Download or read book Familiar and Foreign written by Manijeh Mannani and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: he current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perceptions of Iran and Iranians in the West. Such perceptions do not reflect the complex evolution of Iranian identity that occurred in the years following the Constitutional Revolution (1906–11) and the anti-imperialist Islamic Revolution of 1979. Despite the Iranian government’s determined pursuance of anti-Western policies and strict conformity to religious principles, the film and literature of Iran reflect the clash between a nostalgic pride in Persian tradition and an apparent infatuation with a more Eurocentric modernity. In Familiar and Foreign, Mannani and Thompson set out to explore the tensions surrounding the ongoing formulation of Iranian identity by bringing together essays on poetry, novels, memoir, and films. These include both canonical and less widely theorized texts, as well as works of literature written in English by authors living in diaspora. Challenging neocolonialist stereotypes, these critical excursions into Iranian literature and film reveal the limitations of collective identity as it has been configured within and outside of Iran. Through the examination of works by, among others, the iconic female poet Forugh Farrokhzad, the expatriate author Goli Taraqqi, the controversial memoirist Azar Nafisi, and the graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, this volume engages with the complex and contested discourses of religion, patriarchy, and politics that are the contemporary product of Iran’s long and revolutionary history.
Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Summary of Jennifer Pastiloff's On Being Human written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The stories that live inside of us, and the memories that sustain us, can also haunt us. My mother, who was eighteen years old when she started working in Center City in Philadelphia, at Rohm and Haas, a chemical manufacturer, had bought all new clothes for the job. But her mother took a scissors and sliced through all of them in her closet. #2 My mother grew up in a brick row house in South Philadelphia on Reese Street. Her mother, Marion, was a hatcheck girl at a nightclub called Big Bill’s. She had dates with all those men while her husband was away in the navy. #3 I was always fascinated with my mother’s relationship with her mother. I wanted to know why they had to go visit her grandmother, and why my mother still sent her presents. #4 I was curious about my greatgrandmother Rose. In my mom’s stories, she was always kind and loving, but her daughter, my grandmother, was vicious and mean. I thought we were simply extensions of our parents.
Author : Nima Naghibi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452950032
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Women Write Iran written by Nima Naghibi and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels—and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution as a traumatic event and by a powerful nostalgia for an idealized past. Naghibi is particularly interested in writing as both an expression of memory and an assertion of human rights. She discovers that writing life narratives contributes to the larger enterprise of righting historical injustices. By drawing on the empathy of the reader/spectator/witness, Naghibi contends, life narratives offer the possibilities of connecting to others and responding with an increased commitment to social justice. The book opens with an examination of how the widely circulated video footage of the death of Neda Agha-Soltan on the streets of Tehran in June 2009 triggered the articulation of life narratives by diasporic Iranians. It concludes with a discussion of the prominent place of the 1979 revolution in these narratives. Throughout, the focus is on works that have become popular in the West, such as Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling graphic novel Persepolis. Naghibi addresses the significant questions raised by these works: How do we engage with human rights and social justice as readers in the West? How do these narratives draw our attention and elicit our empathic reactions? And what is our responsibility as witnesses to trauma, atrocity, and human suffering?
Author : André Gregory
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374713278
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book This Is Not My Memoir written by André Gregory and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography-of-sorts of André Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of My Dinner with André This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with André. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, This is Not My Memoir includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the reader from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities. This is Not My Memoir is a collaboration between Gregory and Todd London who create a portrait of an artist confronting his later years. Here, too, are the reflections of a man who only recently learned how to love. What does it mean to create art in a world that often places little value on the process of creating it? And what does it mean to confront the process of aging when your greatest work of art may well be your own life?
Author : Emira Derbel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443892661
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Iranian Women in the Memoir written by Emira Derbel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the various reasons behind the elevation of the memoir, previously categorized as a marginalized form of life writing that denudes the private space of women, especially in Western Asian countries such as Iran. Through a comparative investigation of Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (1) and (2), the book examines the way both narrative and graphic memoirs offer possibilities for Iranian women to reclaim new territory, transgress a post-traumatic revolution, and reconstruct a new model of womanhood that evades socio-political and religious restrictions. Exile is conceptualized as empowering rather than a continued status of loss and disillusionment, and the liminality of both women writers turns into a space of artistic production. The book also resists the New Orientalist scope within which Reading Lolita in Tehran, more than Persepolis, has been misread. In order to reject these allegations, this work sheds light on the representation of Iranian women in Reading Lolita in Tehran, not as weak victims held captive by a totalitarian version of Islam, but as active participants rewriting their stories through the liberating power of the memoir. The comparative approach between narrative and comic memoirs is a fruitful way of displaying similar experiences of disillusionment, loss, return, and exile through different techniques. The common thread uniting both memoirs is their zeal to reclaim Iranian women’s agency and strength over subservience and passivity.
