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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480925803321

Autore

Ghardashkhani Goulia

Titolo

Another place : identity, space, and transcultural signification in Goli Taraqqi's fiction / / by Goulia Ghardashkhani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2018]

ISBN

90-04-35694-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Collana

Iran studies, , 1569-7401 ; ; v. 17

Disciplina

891/.5533

Soggetti

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature

Space in literature

Emigration and immigration in literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Entangled Identities: Space, Mobility, Individuation -- Displacement: The Problematics of Self-Space and the Trauma of Identification -- “Avvalin ruz” and “Akharin ruz:” The Function of Self-Narration -- Homeland Re-Focalized: Shifted Significations and a Less Traumatized Style -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- English Translations of the Titles of Taraqqi’s Short Stories -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Another Place: Identity, Space, and Transcultural Signification in Goli Taraqqi's Fiction , Goulia Ghardashkhani examines the narrative process of the struggle for identification in the short stories of one of the well-established figures of Iranian contemporary prose literature. Goli Taraqqi's narratives of displacement and emigration are approached through a theoretical lens that foregrounds the significance of space and the role of retrospective self-narration in acts of cultural representation. Ghardashkhani studies Taraqqi's autobiographical narratives with an emphasis on the unstable meanings of homeland and Farang (a culturally constructed term signifying the West) and, thereby, accounts for Taraqqi's ironical style of narration in her memories of homeland recollected in exile.