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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: street of butterflies
    sub title: stories
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Yalfānī, Mihrī
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: short story
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 133 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Mehri Yalfani's stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges they face also reveal the racial, gendered and cultural anxieties of these same individuals who carry with them the biases of their country of origin to the norms of the new land. 'Soleiman's Silence,' 'Felicia,' 'If You Were I,' 'Geranium Family' and 'Line,' all portray many dimensions of the migrant's strive (or the refusal) to build a home, away from home. The stories that are set in Iran contain the complexity of the social and political context after the revolution that deposed the shah. These stories provide a glimpse of life in post-revolutionary Iran, where the new regime that replaced the old one continues the suppression and prosecution of political activists, only more harshly and mercilessly. Anyone who has lived under a brutal dictatorship can easily identify with the paralyzing fear of Sara and Nazar in the story, 'Books,' the agonizing wait of Zinat for her disappeared son in 'Unexpicable Story,' or the narratives of the ten-year-old child whose activist parents have perished in notorious prisons of the Islamic regime in 'Where is Paradise?'
  note: by Mehri Yalfani.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ir---
    geographic code: n------
  subject:
    topic: Women
    geographic: Iran
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Women immigrants
    geographic: North America
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR9199.3.Y25 A6 2017
  classification: C813/.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Inanna poetry & fiction series
  identifier: 1771334258
  identifier: 9781771334259
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 171031
    record change date: 20180430074249.0
    record identifier: in00003925644
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng