"The book is a major addition to the existing studies in Iranian culture and identity and broadens our understanding of the complexities inherent in Iranian culture and the ways Iranians are constantly performing their identities.While the book will be of significant interest to scholars of Iranian and Middle Eastern studies, it will also be of interest to specialists of diaspora studies, cultural studies, film studies, and literary criticism. Rahimieh’s graceful writing style and incorporation of various cultural productions will help make the topic available to a wide readership."
Claudia Yaghoobi -Assistant Professor of International Literature, Georgia College and State University in the Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World January 2016.
Throughout modern Iranian history, culture has served as a means of imposing unity and cohesion onto society. The Pahlavi monarchs used it to project an image of Iran as an ancient civilisation, re-emerging as an equal to Western nations, while the revolutionaries deployed it to remake the country into an Islamic nation. Just as Iranian culture has been continually re-interpreted, the representations and avocations of Iranian identity vary amongst Iranians across the world.
Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity demonstrates these fissures and the incompatibilities that refuse to be written out of national culture, analysing works of literature, popular music, graphic art and film, as well as oral narratives. Using works produced before and after the 1979 revolution, created both inside and outside of Iran, this study reveals neglected complexities and contradictions in the field of Iranian cultural production. It considers how contested claims to culture, whether they originated in Iran or the Iranian diaspora, shape our understanding of this culture and what spaces they create for new articulations of it, and in doing so offers an important re-examination of our collective concept of culture.
This book would be an excellent resource for students and scholars of Middle East Studies and Iranian Studies, specifically Iranian culture including film and contemporary literature and the Iranian diaspora.
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