Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 219 pages)
ISBN:
9781003374756
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1040010334
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9781040010334
Series Statement:
Iranian Studies
Content:
"Introducing "narrative mobility" as a new approach in comparative studies of Iran and the US, this book reinterprets the politics and aesthetics of relations between the nations through an analysis of Iranian and American authors. The book focuses specifically on three authors - Simin Daneshvar, Shahriar Mandanipour and Don DeLillo - who each employ narrative mobility to rethink intercultural negotiation, addressing parallel issues in America and Iran from different, but complementary, perspectives. The book analyses the employment of parallel narrational techniques, presenting physically and virtually mobile characters who embody their respective countries as they move from one culture to another. The strange affinity between Iran and the US is ultimately revealed by viewing literary works as a "contact zone" through which the complicated relations and shared history of the two nations can be renegotiated. On a more theoretical level, the book reflects on the role of literature - in particular the novel as a transnational medium - as a bridge between nations in a period of globalization. With its focus on cross-cultural connections, the book will be of interest to anyone studying or researching comparative literature, US-Iran relations, and cultural studies generally"--
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 At the Entrance to the Story -- Introduction -- Literature Mediates the Mobility Through Time and Space -- The Narrative Mobility in Action: Rehearsal of Arguments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Narrative Mobility: Exchange Across the Borders of Nations and Cultures -- Introduction -- Mobility as a Site of Multidimensional Exchange -- Cultural Products That Travel Through Time and Space
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Narrative Mobility: Words and Objects in Spatial Context -- Forms of Narrative and Physical Mobility: Circulation of People and Objects -- Thematic Narrative and Virtual Or Imaginative Mobility: A Form of Cultural Transfer -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Physical Mobility as the Circulation of People From Different Worlds -- Introduction -- Simin Daneshvar: The Scheherazade of a Stable Island: A Strange Historical Irony -- Shahriar Mandanipour: The Storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights -- Don DeLillo: The Narrator of Seeing Americans and Others in Ways That United Us
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Americana: Time, Fate, Chance, and Immortality -- The Names: Living for Periods in Crude Encampments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 The Otherworld of What Was Known and Lost (Historia-Political Narrative and Virtual/Imaginative Mobility) -- Introduction -- The Wandering Trilogy: Third World Don Quixotism -- Censoring an Iranian Love Story: The Tedious Passage of Time in History -- Americana, The Names, and Mao II: Eager to Enter a New Dimension of Belief -- The Politics of War On Television -- The Politics of the Middle East: War and Peace -- Notes -- Bibliography
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5 The Storytellers of One Thousand and One Nights (Cultural Narrative and Virtual/Imaginative Mobility) -- Introduction -- The Wandering Trilogy: Authoritarian-Colonized Culture -- Censoring an Iranian Love Story: A Hidden Secret Behind the Sentences -- Americana and Point Omega: We Were Characters in a Movie -- The Names and Mao II: Films in Unfamiliar Languages -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 The Vulgar Face of a Lost System (Economic Narrative and Virtual/Imaginative Mobility) -- Introduction -- The Wandering Trilogy: The Dependent Government Or Comprador Bourgeoisie
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Censoring an Iranian Love Story: The Vulgar Face of the Bourgeoisie -- Americana and Cosmopolis: Men Shaped By Money -- The Names and Cosmopolis: Perpetual Postmodern Financing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Strange Affinity: The Historical Irony of a Cultural Circulation Between Iran and the US -- Mobilization of an Immobile Novel -- Narrative Mobility: People From a Different World -- Strange Affinity: Iranians and Americans, Friend Or Foe? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032449609
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Esmaeilpour, Naghmeh Interactions between Iranian and American literatures New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032449609
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781032449616
Language:
English
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