Familiar and Foreign: Identity in Iranian Film and Literature

• Main Author: Edited by Manijeh Mannani and Veronica Thompson (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2015
• Subjects: Mathematics & science; Iran; Persepolis; neocolonialism; diaspora; identity; film; Satrapi
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The current political climate of confrontation between Islamist regimes and Western governments has resulted in the proliferation of essentialist perceptions of Iran and Iranians in the West. Such perceptions do not reflect the complex evolution of Iranian identity that occurred in the years followi...