Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile

• Auteur principal: Farideh Goldin (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Athabasca University Press 2015
• Collection: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
• Sujets: 1979 Islamic revolution; dislocation; Shirazi Jews; immigration; diaspora; Iranian; Shah; Jewish
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In 1975, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political u...