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Moments of Silence : Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : New York University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (299 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781479883844
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Moments of SilenceDDC classification:
  • 891/.5509358550542
LOC classification:
  • PK6412.I73.M66 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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