Missing Persians

Missing Persians
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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0815628374
ISBN-13 : 9780815628378
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Book Synopsis Missing Persians by : Nasrin Rahimieh

Download or read book Missing Persians written by Nasrin Rahimieh and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missing Persians serves to articulate in elegant, vibrant prose the disparate and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Nasrin Rahimieh's complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate the links that her five figures have to a stable Persian identity—complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change. Rahimieh delineates the captivating histories of "missing" Persians from the sixteenth century to modern times and defines the arbitrary generic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, and social histories. Balancing their documentary and historical value with creative and fictional elements, she reads them as individual engagements with broader questions of Persian identity at different moments of the nation's history. As modes of self-expression, these texts reveal both remnants of traditional Persian literary forms and new styles adopted through translations and readings in European literature and history. Even as it sheds new light on crucial points in cultural self-definition, Missing Persians offers a fresh look at traditional institutions, the role of women, and Persia's turbulent struggle to enter modernity on its own terms.


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