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Women, art, and literature in the Iranian diaspora /

The manuscript is a work of cultural studies, arguing that "art," creative work in various forms, can serve to help transcend political binaries and foster identification of the political/ethnic "other." Specifically, it examines the work of Iranian women visual artists and write...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ebrahimi, Mehraneh (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.
Subjects:
Satrapi, Marjane, > 1969- > Criticism and interpretation.
Bashi, Parsua, > 1966- > Criticism and interpretation.
Neshat, Shirin, > 1957- > Criticism and interpretation.
Arts, Iranian > 21st century.
Women artists > Iran.
Women and the arts.
Iranian diaspora.
Graphic novels > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > History > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Diasporic Iranian visual literature in the form of graphic narratives
  • Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis
  • Parsua Bashi's Nylon road
  • Diasporic Iranian visual literature manifested in the art of Shirin Neshat : photo-poetry and poetic film
  • Shirin Neshat's political(ized) aesthetics
  • Neshat moving on to movies.