Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora by Claudia Yaghoobi (Engl

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Studies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population within a liminal space that includes religious, ethnic, national, racial, cultural, gender, and sexual factors.

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Transnational Culture studies the ways that diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as minoritized population within a liminal space that includes religious, ethnic, national, racial, cultural, gender, and sexual factors. Yaghoobi argues that this liminal state of fluidity helps them to develop a resilience towards ambiguity and handling ambivalence in dealing with various cultures as well as resisting dualistic thinking which in turn allows them to move beyond national boundaries to transnationalism, yet simultaneously display the collective Armenian identity characterized by flexibility, adaptability, and continuity as a result of both multiple uprooting and a Genocide that continues to this day. They serve as a bridge between the homeland and the host nation, occupying what the author theorizes as verants'ughi the transformational passageway, which requires them to not only risk being in a transitory space and give up the safe space of home and the power that comes with it, but also through doing so, they create transformative works of literature and art.

Author Biography

Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Associate Professor and the director of the Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Persian Literature and Film (Cambridge UP 2020) and Subjectivity in 'Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (Purdue UP 2017). She is the editor of The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment forthcoming from Bloomsbury/IB Tauris in 2023. She is co-editor with Janet Afary of the Sex, Marriage and Culture in the Middle East book series.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Translation Prologue: A Turning Point: The Iran-Iraq War Introduction: From Nationalism in Exile to Transnationalism in Diaspora 1 Diaspora, Nostos and Longing 2 Maintaining Heritage and Assimilation 3 Language as an Ethno-National Identity Marker 4 History, Memory and Collective Consciousness 5 Transnational Diasporic Identity Conclusion: Negotiating Identity via Creativity Epilogue: Where is Home? Bibliography Index

Review

"This book blends scholarly and personal history with literature, film and art, thereby illustrating how questions of identity are navigated by Iranian Armenians, both in Iran and in exile. It is a fresh and nuanced study that approaches the subjects of minorities, race and migration through a non-western lens." -James Barry, Deakin University

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Examines the ways diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities in Iran and in the US

Details ISBN1399512374 Author Claudia Yaghoobi Publisher Edinburgh University Press Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 1399512374 ISBN-13 9781399512374 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2023-05-31 UK Release Date 2023-05-31 Imprint Edinburgh University Press Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Johanna Spanke NZ Release Date 2023-05-31 Birth 1964 Affiliation Winchester College, UK Position Classics Teacher Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Pages 288 Series Edinburgh Studies on Diasporas and Transnationalism DEWEY 305.891992055 Illustrations 4 B/W illustrations 11 colour illustrations 11 Colour illustrations, 4 Black & White Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2023-08-24 Alternative 9781399512381 We've got this

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