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Iranian Culture - Representation and Identity (Paperback)
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Iranian Culture - Representation and Identity (Paperback)
Series: Iranian Studies
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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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