Familiar and Foreign - Identity in Iranian Film and Literature

Klappentext Manijeh Mannani is chair of the Centre forHumanities and associate professor of English and comparativeliterature at Athabasca University! as well as adjunct professor ofcomparative literature at the University of Alberta. She specializes inthe poetry of Rumi and is the author of Divine Deviants: The Dialecticsof Devotion in the Poetry of Donne and Rumi. She is also the co-editorof Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts andCulture. ¿ Veronica Thompson is associate professor of Englishand dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at AthabascaUniversity. Her research interests include Canadian and Australianliteratures! postcolonial literatures and theories! and women'sliterature and feminist theory. She is currently researchingrepresentations of terrorism in postcolonial literature. She is alsothe co-editor of Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on CanadianArts and Culture. ¿ Zusammenfassung In Familiar and Foreign! Mannani and Thompson set out to explore the tensions surrounding the ongoing formulation of Iranian identity by bringing together essays on poetry! novels! memoir! and films.

Product details

• Authors: Manijeh (EDT)/ Thompson Mannani
• Assisted by: Manijeh Mannani (Editor), Veronica Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9781927356869
• ISBN: 978-1-927356-86-9
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Athabasca University Press
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies