Constructing Identity in Iranian-American Self-Narrative - Hardcover

Wagenknecht, Maria D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137479612 ISBN 13: 9781137479617

Verlag: AIAA, 2015

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“Constructing Identity in Iranian-American Self-Narrative is an important work concerned with the ‘performance of identity’ ... . It speaks to an increasing appetite for scholarship that captures the parallel growth in minority literature with transnational echoes. Members of the academic community and the public will find it useful in offering an account of an Iranian American complicated sense of agency in a globe fraught with reductions and over-simplifications.” (Waleed F. Mahdi, European Journal of American Culture, Vol. 36 (3), September, 2017)

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Defined by the Iranian Revolution, forced migration and diaspora, Iranian-American autobiographies center in the experience of rupture and discontinuity. Taking autobiographical writing as performance of identity, this study identifies their narrative patterns and communicative functions in the interaction of author, diaspora and American market. Especially authors' disidentification with traditionalism and politicized Islam and their construction of a 'Persian' instead of Iranian identity speaks not only to the diaspora, but is also geared towards greater acceptance in American society. What is more, self-orientalization aims to satisfy the expectations of American readers. However, this seems to be the price that Iranian-American autobiographers need to pay if they want to work as cultural brokers on behalf of a country that has become largely demonized. Tracing these dynamics of individual and collective identity construction within one of the youngest minorities in the USA, this study offers insights that are not only of scholarly but also of political importance.

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• Verlag: AIAA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1137479612
• ISBN 13: 9781137479617
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232