6 Anxious Men: Sexuality and Systems of Disavowal in Contemporary Iranian Literature

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Familiar and Foreign: An Introduction 1
4. 1 The Development of the Artistic Female Self in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad 17
5. 2 Overcoming Gender: The Impact of the Persian Language on Iranian Women’s Confessional Literature 31
6. 3 Autobiomythography and Self-Aggrandizement in Iranian Diasporic Life- Writing: Fatemeh Keshavarz and Azar Nafisi 61
7. 4 Graphic Memories: Dialogues with Self and Other in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Persepolis 2 83
8. 5 Mr. and Mrs. F and the Woman: Personal Identities in Zoya Pirzad’s Like All the Afternoons 111
9. 6 Anxious Men: Sexuality and Systems of Disavowal in Contemporary Iranian Literature 129
10. 7 Reading the Exile’s Body: Deafness and Diaspora in Kader Abdolah’s My Father’s Notebook 149
11. 8 Persian Literature of Exile in France: Goli Taraqqi’s Short Stories 173
12. 9 Farang Represented: The Construction of Self-Space in Goli Taraqqi’s Fiction 189
13. 10 Film as Alternative History: The Aesthetics of Bahram Beizai 211
14. 11 Technologies of Memory, Identity, and Oblivion in Persepolis (2007) and Waltz with Bashir (2008) 233
15. Contributors 261