LEADER 04291nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910823139203321 005 20230725021301.0 010 $a0-8047-7581-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804775816 035 $a(CKB)2560000000072252 035 $a(EBL)683281 035 $a(OCoLC)714569463 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000469570 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12195700 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469570 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10530960 035 $a(PQKB)10818868 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC683281 035 $a(DE-B1597)564386 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804775816 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL683281 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10459564 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769327 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000072252 100 $a20100622d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGhosts of revolution $erekindled memories of imprisonment in Iran /$fShahla Talebi ; drawings by Soudabeh Ardavan 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-7201-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrologue -- $t1. In the Footsteps of the Giants -- $t2. Roya: The Threshold of Imagination and Phantasm -- $t3. Fozi: Losing It All -- $t4. Kobra: The Gaze of Death -- $t5. Innocent Cruelty: Yousuf -- $t6. Maryam: A God Who Cried -- $tEpilogue -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tGlossary 330 $a"Opening the enormous metal gate, the guard suddenly took away my blindfold and asked me, tauntingly, if I would recognize my parents. With my eyes hurting from the strange light and anger in my voice, I assured him that I would. Suddenly I was pushed through the gate and the door was slammed behind me. After more than eight years, here I was, finally, out of jail . . . ." In this haunting account, Shahla Talebi remembers her years as a political prisoner in Iran. Talebi, along with her husband, was imprisoned for nearly a decade and tortured, first under the Shah and later by the Islamic Republic. Writing about her own suffering and survival and sharing the stories of her fellow inmates, she details the painful reality of prison life and offers an intimate look at a critical period of social and political transformation in Iran. Somehow through it all?through resistance and resolute hope, passion and creativity?Talebi shows how one survives. Reflecting now on experiences past, she stays true to her memories, honoring the love of her husband and friends lost in these events, to relate how people can hold to moments of love, resilience, and friendship over the dark forces of torture, violence, and hatred. At once deeply personal yet clearly political, part memoir and part meditation, this work brings to heartbreaking clarity how deeply rooted torture and violence can be in our society. More than a passing judgment of guilt on a monolithic "Islamic State," Talebi's writing asks us to reconsider our own responses to both contemporary debates of interrogation techniques and government responsibility and, more simply, to basic acts of cruelty in daily life. She offers a lasting call to us all. "The art of living in prison becomes possible through imagining life in the very presence of death and observing death in the very existence of life. It is living life so vitally and so fully that you are willing, if necessary, to let that very life go, as one would shed chains on the legs. It is embracing, and flying on the wings of death as though it is the bird of freedom." 606 $aWomen political prisoners$zIran$vBiography 606 $aPolitical persecution$zIran$xHistory 607 $aIran$xPolitics and government$y1979-1997 615 0$aWomen political prisoners 615 0$aPolitical persecution$xHistory. 676 $a365/.45092 676 $aB 700 $aTalebi$b Shahla$f1957-$01644596 701 $aArdava?n$b Su?da?bah$01644597 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823139203321 996 $aGhosts of revolution$93990575 997 $aUNINA