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In Another Place: Identity, Space, and Transcultural Signification in Goli Taraqqi's Fiction, Goulia Ghardashkhani examines the narrative process of the struggle for identification in the short stories of one of the well-established figures of Iranian contemporary prose literature. Goli Taraqqi's narratives of displacement and emigration are approached through a theoretical lens that foregrounds the significance of space and the role of retrospective self-narration in acts of cultural representation. Ghardashkhani studies Taraqqi's autobiographical narratives with an emphasis on the unstable meanings of homeland and Farang (a culturally constructed term signifying the West) and, thereby, accounts for Taraqqi's ironical style of narration in her memories of homeland recollected in exile.

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Author:   Goulia Ghardashkhani
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   17
Weight:   0.541kg
ISBN:  

9789004356924

ISBN 10:   9004356924
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   09 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Language:   English, Persian

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements A Note on Translations 1 Introduction Goli Taraqqi: A Committed Writer? Two Decades of Silence Emigration Literature Critical Reception Goli Taraqqi's Fiction: Narratives of Space Identity, Space, and Transcultural Significations 2 Entangled Identities: Space, Mobility, Individuation The Che Guevara Stories and the Verge of Transition Zygmunt Bauman: Disembedding the Self, a Postulated Project Surmounting the Communal Structures: Thesis, Antithesis, and the Final Escape Corporeal Self-Alteration as a Means to Escape Communal Structures Narration: A Way Outwards 3 Displacement: The Problematics of Self-Space and the Trauma of Identification Displacement and Its Impact on Representational Practices The Problem of Self-Space in Taraqqi's Stories 4 Avvalin ruz and Akharin ruz: The Function of Self-Narration Narrative Oscillation: The Self in an Alien Environment The Relation between Self and Narrativity: An Issue of Debate Autobiographical Function: Leaving the Madhouse 5 Homeland Re-Focalized: Shifted Significations and a Less Traumatized Style Homi K. Bhabha's Approach to the Study of Colonial Knowledge Goli Taraqqi and Her Authorial Stance within the Third Space Conclusion Epilogue English Translations of the Titles of Taraqqi's Short Stories Bibliography Index

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Goulia Ghardashkhani, Ph.D. (2015), University of Marburg, is researcher of Iranian Studies at that university. Her research interest is in modern and contemporary Iranian literature, exile literature, diaspora literature, British travelogues on Iran, and the literature of the Iran-Iraq war.

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