Iran and the West
Subtitle: cultural perceptions from the Sasanian Empire to the Islamic Republic
By: edited by David Bagot and Margaux Whiskin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781350986862; 9781838608767
Subjects: Relations
Description: "Since the age of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD), Iran and the West have time and again appeared to be at odds. Iran and the West charts this contentious and complex relationship by examining the myriad ways the two have perceived each other, from antiquity to today. Across disciplines, perspectives and periods contributors consider literary, imagined, mythical, visual, filmic, political and historical representations of the 'other' and the ways in which these have been constructed in, and often in spite of, their specific historical contexts. Many of these narratives, for example, have their origin in the ancient world but have since been altered, recycled and manipulated to fit a particular agenda. Ranging from Tacitus, Leonidas and Xerxes via Shahriar Mandanipour and Azar Nafisi to Rosewater, Argo and 300, this inter-disciplinary and wide-ranging volume is essential reading for anyone working on the complex history, present and future of Iranian-Western relations."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Foreword / Ali M. Ansari; title: Introduction / Margaux Whiskin; title: Part 1. Section 1: Classical Representations. Chapter 1. Tacitus and the Great Kings / Leonardo Gregoratti ; Chapter 2. Roman and Iranian Perceptions of the Other in Late Antiquity / David Bagot ; Chapter 3. Xerxes and Leonidas: Conversations Between Ancient Persia and Seventeenth-Century France in FéNelon's Dialogue of the Dead / Margaux Whiskin; title: Part 2. Section 2: Literary Representations. Chapter 4. Saadi's Perception of the West and German Translators' Perception of Iran in Saadi's Gulistan (The Rose Garden) / Nina Zandjani ; Chapter 5. Parisian or Persian?': an Introduction on the French Roots of the First Iranian Social Novels / Ali Beh-Pajooh ; Chapter 6. Our White Hands,' Iran and Germany's 1968 / Annie Pfeifer ; Chapter 7. Entrapped in a Carved-Up Land: Revisiting Reading Lolita in Tehran / Amir Ahmadi Arian ; Chapter 8. Death to Freedom, Death to Captivity': Beyond Shahriar Mandanipour's Islamic' Love Story / Roxanne Ellen Bibizadeh ; Chapter 9. Homeland Dramatisations and Native Gaze Demolitions in Nahid Rachlin's Foreigner and Porochista Khakpour's Sons and Other Flammable Objects / Giulia Valsecchi ; Part 3. Section 3: Imagining the Other: Fact and Fantasy in Cultural and Political Influences. Chapter 10. Tbilisi as a Bridge Between Iran and Europe, From the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries / George Sanikidze ; Chapter 11. Generational Differences: American Medical Missionaries in Iran, 1834-1940 / Lydia Wytenbroek ; Chapter 12. A Narrative of Historical and Cultural Ties Between Iran and Romania / Elham Malekzadeh ; Chapter 13. The Great Satan and the Axis of Evil: The Politics of Demonisation in Iran and the United States / Laleh Gomari-Luksch; title: Part 4. Section 4: Visual and Media Representations. Chapter 14. Zan-I Farangi, A Symbol Of Occident: The European Women In Farangi Sazi Paintings (1666-94) / Negar Habibi ; Chapter 15. Meeting of Anthropology and Racial Ideology in Hollywood: Discovering the Forgotten People' and Remembering the Lost Tribe' in Grass (1925) / Ali Sadidi Heris ; Chapter 16. Soraya Cried For Three Days': The Many Faces of Iranian -German Royalty in the German Popular Press in the 1950s and 1960s / Birgit Röder ; Chapter 17. Persepolis: The Shah's National Fiction / Margaux Whiskin ; Chapter 18. Vampires, Veils and The Western Gaze: Gender Images and the Notion of Beauty From Qajar to Post-Revolutionary Iran / Maryam Aras; title: Afterword Isfahan 1976-8: A Personal Recollection / Andrew Knapp; title: Bibliography; title: Index.