Frontier fictions
Subtitle: shaping the Iranian nation, 1804-1946
By: Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Nationalism -- Iran -- History -- 19th century; Nationalism -- Iran -- History -- 20th century; Iran -- Boundaries
Description: "In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "frontier fictions," or the ways in which the Iranians viewed their often fluctuating borders and the conflicts surrounding them, played a dominant role in defining the nation.

On these borderlands, new ideas of citizenship and nationality were unleashed, refining older ideas of ethnicity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-300) and index