Naghibi, Nima,

Women write Iran : nostalgia and human rights from the diaspora - University of Minnesota Press : Women Write Iran , 2016 . - 211 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index.

Introduction: righting the past -- Claiming Neda -- Human rights, humanitarianism, and empathic witnessing: prison memoirs -- Feeling nostalgic, feeling guilty: remembering Iran in documentary film -- Repetitions of the past: Marjane Satrapi and intergenerational memory -- Revolution, nostalgia, and memory in diasporic Iranian memoirs -- Conclusion: testimonial life narratives: anonymity and visibility.

9780816683826 (hbk. : acidfree paper) 9780816683840 (pbk. : acidfree paper)

2015019413


American prose literature--Iranian American authors--History and criticism.
Iranian Americans--Biography
Exiles' writings, Iranian
Autobiography
Autobiographical memory in literature.
Nostalgia in literature.
Human rights--Iran.

PS647.I73 / N34 2016

818.603

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