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Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History

Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History

Rahimieh, Nasrin

Paperback

Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East

AnthropologyGeneral World HistoryIran History

ISBN10: 0815628374
ISBN13: 9780815628378
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Oct 1 2001
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Missing Persians serves to articulate in elegant, vibrant prose the disparate and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Nasrin Rahimieh's complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate the links that her five figures have to a stable Persian identity--complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change.

Rahimieh delineates the captivating histories of missing Persians from the sixteenth century to modern times and defines the arbitrary generic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, and social histories. Balancing their documentary and historical value with creative and fictional elements, she reads them as individual engagements with broader questions of Persian identity at different moments of the nation's history. As modes of self-expression, these texts reveal both remnants of traditional Persian literary forms and new styles adopted through translations and readings in European literature and history.

Even as it sheds new light on crucial points in cultural self-definition, Missing Persians offers a fresh look at traditional institutions, the role of women, and Persia's turbulent struggle to enter modernity on its own terms.

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