Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-07200-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 162 g

This study aims to foreground key literary works in Persian and Australian culture that deal with the representation of exile and dislocation. Through cultural and literary analysis, Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature investigates the influence of dislocation on self-perception and the remaking of connections both through the act of writing and the attempt to transcend social conventions. Examining writing and identity in David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life (1978), Iranian Diaspora Literature, and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men (1989/ Eng.1998), Hasti Abbasi provides a literary analysis of dislocation, with its social and psychological manifestations. Abbasi reveals how the exploration of exile/dislocation, as a narrative that needs to be investigated through imagination and meditation, provides a mechanism for creative writing practice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abbasi, Hasti

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Iranische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.      Introduction: Dislocation and Writing2.      Writing in Exile3.      Malouf’s An Imaginary Life3.1.   Exile and Romantic Writing3.2.   Ovid’s Poetic Language3.3.   Untamed Nature as a “Background to Human Drama”3.4.   The Child: Beyond the Limits of Self-identity3.5.   A Sense of Exile3.6.   Metamorphoses and Metamorphoses3.7.   Symbols: Garden and Seasons3.8.   Sexuality and Desire4.      Parsipur’s Women Without Men and Iranian Diaspora Women’s Literature4.1.   Goli Taraghi and Scriptotherapy4.2.   Parsipur: ‘a nay-sayer’4.3.   The Story of Parsipur’s Women and Patriarchal Subjugation4.4.   Writing about Taboos and Ridiculing the Imposed Ideologies4.5.   Feminine Writing4.6.   Of Other Spaces: Garden and Heterotopias, Re-evaluation and Restoration4.7.   Nomadic Experience of Women Without Men4.8.   Narratives of Iranian Diaspora Women4.9.   Lipstick Jihad and Hybrid Identity4.10.                    Persepolis and a Third Space5.      Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Hasti Abbasi teaches Bachelor of Arts courses at Griffith University, Australia. Abbasi has been short listed for the 2018 Viva la Novella VI Prize for her novella And the Raindrops Fill the Sea.