Wagenknecht, Maria D.
Constructing Identity in Iranian-American Self-Narrative
1. Introduction
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Part I. Troubled Heritage: History and Religion in the Diasporic Reconstruction
2. Explaining Departure: Narratives of Victimicy
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3. A Usable Past: Construction of Religion and Alternative Identifications
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Part II. Language, Body, and the Iranian-American Self
4. The Interplay of Language and Identity Construction
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5. The Iranian-American Body In Between
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Part III. Culture Inherited/In Flux
6. Between Fiction and Fact: Telling the Iranian-American Self
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7. Relative Identities: The Iranian-American Self in Its Relation to Others
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8. Imagining “Home”: Between Persian Paradise and American Arcadia
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9. Conclusion
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Keywords: Literature, Middle Eastern Literature, Middle Eastern Culture, Twentieth-Century Literature, Ethnicity Studies, North American Literature
- Author(s)
- Wagenknecht, Maria D.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2015
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 230 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137473318
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-50245-5