Constructing Identity in Iranian-American Self-Narrative [electronic resource] /
Wagenknecht, Maria D.author.
Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration, exile, and life between different and often clashing cultures.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration, exile, and life between different and often clashing cultures.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: TROUBLED HERITAGE -- 1. Explaining Departure: Narratives of Victimicy -- 2. A Usable Past: Construction of Religion and Alternative Identifications -- PART II: LANGUAGE, BODY, AND THE IRANIAN-AMERICAN SELF -- 3. The Interplay of Language and Identity Construction -- 4. The Iranian-American Body In Between -- PART III: CULTURE INHERITED/IN FLUX -- 5. Between Fiction and Fact: Telling the Iranian-American Self -- 6. Relative Identities: The Iranian-American Self in Its Relation to Others -- 7. Imagining "Home:" Between Persian Paradise and American Arcadia -- Conclusion.
Middle Eastern literature.
Ethnology-Middle East .
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Ethnicity.
America-Literatures.
Middle Eastern Literature.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Ethnicity Studies.
North American Literature.