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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300032303321

Autore

Abbasi Hasti

Titolo

Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature / / by Hasti Abbasi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-96484-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (107 pages)

Disciplina

820.9994

Soggetti

Literature

Literature - History and criticism

Creative writing

World Literature

Literary History

Creative Writing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Dislocation and Writing -- 2. Writing in Exile -- 3. Malouf’s An Imaginary Life -- 4. Parsipur’s Women Without Men and Iranian Diaspora Women’s Literature -- 5. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

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.