Title: Frontier fictions
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Nationalism, History, Boundaries, Iran, history, Iran, politics and government, Geographical perception
Places: Iran
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century
LC classification: DS299 .K36 1999