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Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran

Warring Souls: Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran

Varzi, Roxanne

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AnthropologyGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0822337096
ISBN13: 9780822337096
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 31 2006
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
With the first Fulbright grant for research in Iran to be awarded since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Roxanne Varzi returned to the country her family left before the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on ethnographic research she conducted in Tehran between 1991 and 2000, she provides an eloquent account of the beliefs and experiences of young, middle-class, urban Iranians. As the first generation to have come of age entirely in the period since the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran, twenty-something Iranians comprise a vital index of the success of the nation's Islamic Revolution. Varzi describes how, since 1979, the Iranian state has attempted to produce and enforce an Islamic public sphere by governing behavior and by manipulating images--particularly images related to religious martyrdom and the bloody war with Iraq during the 1980s--through films, murals, and television shows. Yet many of the young Iranians Varzi studied quietly resist the government's conflation of religious faith and political identity.

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