Interactions Between Iranian and American Literatures - Strange Affinity

Introducing "narrative mobility" as a new approach in comparative studies of Iran and the US, this book reinterprets the politics and aesthetics of relations between the nations.

List of contents

1. At the Entrance to the Story 2. Narrative Mobility: Exchange across the Borders of Nations and Cultures 3. Physical Mobility as the Circulation of People from Different Worlds 4. The Otherworld of What Was Known and Lost (Historia-Political Narrative and Virtual/Imaginative Mobility) 5. The Storytellers of One Thousand and One Night (Cultural Narrative and Virtual/Imaginative Mobility) 6. The Vulgar Face of a Lost System (Economic Narrative and Virtual/Imaginative Mobility) 7. Strange Affinity: The Historical Irony of Cultural Circulation Between Iran and the US

About the author

received her PhD in Comparative Literature at Humboldt University, Berlin. She has published articles in Bloomsbury's World Literature Series and in U.S. American Culture as Popular Culture. Her research areas include comparative literature, (global) media culture, trans/intermediality, film, game, and narrative studies.

Product details

• Authors: Naghmeh Esmaeilpour
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032449616
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244961-6
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Iranian Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Iran, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Regional Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000