TY - BOOK AU - Khakpour,Arta AU - Vatanabadi,Shouleh AU - Khorrami,Mohammad Mehdi TI - Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 SN - 9781479883844 AV - PK6412.I73.M66 2016 U1 - 891/.5509358550542 PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 - Literature and the war KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- MOMENTS OF SILENCE -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS: INTERCONNECTED HISTORIES, GEOGRAPHIES, AND LANGUAGES -- 1. Narratives of Borders and Beyond -- 2. Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns: The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews -- PART II. THEORIZING CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS OF WAR -- 3. Treacherous Memory: Bashu the Little Stranger and the Sacred Defense -- 4. War Veterans Turned Writers of War Narratives -- 5. Between Betrayal and Steadfastness: Iraqi Prisoners of War Narrate Their Lives -- 6. Stepping Back from the Front: A Glance at Home Front Narratives of the Iran-Iraq War in Persian and Arabic Fiction -- 7. Not a Manifesto: The Languages of Aggression -- PART III. WAR THROUGH VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS -- 8. All's Not Quiet on the Western Front: Graphic Arts in the Iranian War Effort -- 9. Shadows of War: An Overview of Iranian War Films from 1980 to 1988 -- PART IV. LITERARY NARRATIVES OF WAR -- 10. Representation of the Iran-Iraq War in Kurdish Fiction -- 11. Editing (Virayesh) as a Movement of Resistance during the Iran-Iraq War -- 12. Narratives of Silence: Persian Fiction of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War -- Appendix A: Only the Dead Witnessed the End of the War -- Appendix B: My Brother's Blue Eyes -- Appendix C: Two Poems -- Appendix D: A Chapter from The Pomegranate Alone -- Appendix E: A Letter to the Saad Family -- Select Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index N2 - No detailed description available for "Moments of Silence" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4500675 ER -