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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/940964282 Title: Women write Iran : nostalgia and human rights from the diaspora Author: Nima Naghibi Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016. ISBN/ISSN: 9781452950044 1452950040 OCLC:940964282

  
  

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Women write Iran : nostalgia and human rights from the diaspora

Author:	Nima Naghibi
Publisher:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates 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. Interested in writing as both an expression of memory and an assertion of human rights, Naghibi 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 possibilities of connecting to others and responding with a commitment to social justice. Throughout the book, 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?  Read more...
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Subjects	American prose literature -- Iranian American authors -- History and criticism. Iranian Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism. Exiles' writings, Iranian -- History and criticism. View all subjects
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