Exiled Memories [[electronic resource] ] : Stories of Iranian Diaspora

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459590403321
• Autore: Sullivan Zohreh T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-89620-2; 9786612896200; 1-4399-0641-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.89155; 973.04915; 973/.04915
• Soggetti: Exiles - United States; Exiles -- United States -- Interviews; Immigrants - United States; Immigrants -- United States -- Interviews; Iran - History - Revolution, 1979; Iran -- History -- Revolution, 1979 -- Personal narratives; Iranian Americans; Iranian Americans - Ethnic identity; Iranian Americans -- Ethnic identity; Iranian Americans -- Interviews; Iranian Americans - Social conditions; Iranian Americans -- Social conditions; Iranian Americans - Ethnic identity - United States; Immigrants - Social conditions - United States; Exiles; Ethnic & Race Studies; Gender & Ethnic Studies; Social Sciences; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface, or, How I Started Story Gathering; Acknowledgments; Iran and the United States: A Chronology; Chapter 1 Introduction: Fabricating Identity; Chapter 2 There: Remembering Home; Zia AshrafNasr; Pari (pseud.); Mohamad Tavakoli; Lily; Hamid Na.cy; Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa; Afsaneh Najmabadi; Tahereh (pseud.); Homa Sarshar; Mandana (pseud.); Roqeyeh Arbat Kazemi; Fereydoun Sa.zadeh; Rebwar Kurdi (pseud.); Jahan Kurd (pseud.); Daryoosh; Kambys Shirazi (pseud.); Keyvan; Soheyl (pseud.); Ali Behdad; Chapter 3 Revolution: Narrating Upheaval; Faranak; Pari (pseud.); Lily; Homa Sarshar; Mandana (pseud.)Afsaneh Najmabadi; Tahereh (pseud.); Mrs. Ghandsaz (pseud.); Zia AshrafNasr; Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa; Barbod; Rebwar Kurdi (pseud.); Kambys Shirazi (pseud.); Mehrdad Haghighi; Yahya (pseud.); Professor Ali (pseud.); Fereydoun Sa.zadeh; Keyvan; Ali Behdad; Soheyl (pseud.); Chapter 4 Here: Reconstructing Migration and Exile; Rebwar Kurdi (pseud.); Barbod; Mehrdad Haghighi; Lily; Homa Sarshar; Mandana (pseud.); Professor Ali (pseud.); Yahya (pseud.); Pari (pseud.); Afsaneh Najmabadi; Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa; Tahereh (pseud.); Hamid Na.cy; Ramin Sobhan (pseud.); Ali Behdad; Zia AshrafNasr; Susan BazarganChapter 5 Epilogue; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: ""I feel I am the wandering Jew who has no place to which she belongs. I thought I could settle down, but can't imagine staying. Whenever I bought a bar of soap and two came in the package, I thought there would be no need to buy a package of two because I would never last through the second. Why? Because I knew I was returning to Iran -- tomorrow. So too, I would buy the smallest size of toothpastes and jars of oil. Putting down roots here is an impossibility.""These are the words of one Iranian emigre, driven from Tehran by the revolution of 1979. They are echoed time and again