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Exiled Memories Stories Of Iranian Diaspora Zohreh Sullivan

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Publisher: Temple University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 3.12 MB

Pages: 324

Author: Zohreh Sullivan

ISBN: 9781566398428, 1566398428

Language: English

Year: 2001

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Exiled Memories Stories Of Iranian Diaspora Zohreh Sullivan by Zohreh Sullivan 9781566398428, 1566398428 instant download after payment.

I
feel I am the wandering Jew who has no place to which she belongs. I
thought I could settle down, but can't imagine staying. Whenever I
bought a bar of soap and two came in the package, I thought there would
be no need to buy a package of two because I would never last through
the second. Why? Because I knew I was returning to Iran -- tomorrow. So
too, I would buy the smallest size of toothpastes and jars of oil.
Putting down roots here is an impossibility.
These are the words of
one Iranian emigre, driven from Tehran by the revolution of 1979. They
are echoed time and again in this powerful portrayal of loss and
survival. Impelled by these word and her own concerns about nationality
and identity, Zohreh Sullivan has gathered together here the voices of
sixty exiles and emigres. The speakers come from various ethnic and
religious backgrounds and range in age from thirteen to eighty-eight.
Although most are from the middle class, they work in a variety of
occupations in the United States. But whatever their differences, here
they engage in remembering the past, producing a discourse about their
lives, and negotiating the troubled transitions from one culture to
another.
Unlike mana other Iranian oral history projects, "Exiled
Memories" looks at the reconstruction of memory and identity through
diasporic narratives, through a focus on the Americas rather than on
Iran. The narratives included here reveal the complex ways in which
events and places transform identities, how overnight radical s become
conservatives, friends become enemies, the strong become weak. Indeed,
the narratives themselves serve this function -- serving to transfer or
transform power and establish credibility. They reveal a diverse group
of people in the process of knitting the story of themselves with the
story of the collective after ita has been torn apart."