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Another Place
Identity, Space, and Transcultural Signification in Goli Taraqqi's Fiction
Series: - Iran Studies, Volume: 17
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In Another Place: Identity, Space, and Transcultural Signification in Goli Taraqqi's Fiction, Goulia Ghardashkhani examines the narrative process of the struggle for identification in the short stories of one of the well-established figures of Iranian contemporary prose literature. Goli Taraqqi's narratives of displacement and emigration are approached through a theoretical lens that foregrounds the significance of space and the role of retrospective self-narration in acts of cultural representation.
Ghardashkhani studies Taraqqi's autobiographical narratives with an emphasis on the unstable meanings of homeland and Farang (a culturally constructed term signifying the West) and, thereby, accounts for Taraqqi's ironical style of narration in her memories of homeland recollected in exile.
Ghardashkhani studies Taraqqi's autobiographical narratives with an emphasis on the unstable meanings of homeland and Farang (a culturally constructed term signifying the West) and, thereby, accounts for Taraqqi's ironical style of narration in her memories of homeland recollected in exile.
Goulia Ghardashkhani, Ph.D. (2015), University of Marburg, is researcher of Iranian Studies at that university. Her research interest is in modern and contemporary Iranian literature, exile literature, diaspora literature, British travelogues on Iran, and the literature of the Iran-Iraq war.
Acknowledgements
A Note on Translations
1 Introduction
âGoli Taraqqi: A Committed Writer?
âTwo Decades of Silence
âEmigration Literature
âCritical Reception
âGoli Taraqqiâs Fiction: Narratives of Space
âIdentity, Space, and Transcultural Significations
2 Entangled Identities: Space, Mobility, Individuation
âThe Che Guevara Stories and the Verge of Transition
âZygmunt Bauman: Disembedding the Self, a Postulated Project
âSurmounting the Communal Structures: Thesis, Antithesis, and the Final Escape
âCorporeal Self-Alteration as a Means to Escape Communal Structures
âNarration: A Way Outwards
3 Displacement: The Problematics of Self-Space and the Trauma of Identification
âDisplacement and Its Impact on Representational Practices
âThe Problem of Self-Space in Taraqqiâs Stories
4 âAvvalin ruzâ and âAkharin ruz:â The Function of Self-Narration
âNarrative Oscillation: The Self in an Alien Environment
âThe Relation between Self and Narrativity: An Issue of Debate
âAutobiographical Function: Leaving the Madhouse
5 Homeland Re-Focalized: Shifted Significations and a Less Traumatized Style
âHomi K. Bhabhaâs Approach to the Study of Colonial Knowledge
âGoli Taraqqi and Her Authorial Stance within the Third Space
Conclusion
Epilogue
English Translations of the Titles of Taraqqiâs Short Stories
Bibliography
Index
A Note on Translations
1 Introduction
âGoli Taraqqi: A Committed Writer?
âTwo Decades of Silence
âEmigration Literature
âCritical Reception
âGoli Taraqqiâs Fiction: Narratives of Space
âIdentity, Space, and Transcultural Significations
2 Entangled Identities: Space, Mobility, Individuation
âThe Che Guevara Stories and the Verge of Transition
âZygmunt Bauman: Disembedding the Self, a Postulated Project
âSurmounting the Communal Structures: Thesis, Antithesis, and the Final Escape
âCorporeal Self-Alteration as a Means to Escape Communal Structures
âNarration: A Way Outwards
3 Displacement: The Problematics of Self-Space and the Trauma of Identification
âDisplacement and Its Impact on Representational Practices
âThe Problem of Self-Space in Taraqqiâs Stories
4 âAvvalin ruzâ and âAkharin ruz:â The Function of Self-Narration
âNarrative Oscillation: The Self in an Alien Environment
âThe Relation between Self and Narrativity: An Issue of Debate
âAutobiographical Function: Leaving the Madhouse
5 Homeland Re-Focalized: Shifted Significations and a Less Traumatized Style
âHomi K. Bhabhaâs Approach to the Study of Colonial Knowledge
âGoli Taraqqi and Her Authorial Stance within the Third Space
Conclusion
Epilogue
English Translations of the Titles of Taraqqiâs Short Stories
Bibliography
Index
All interested in Iranian contemporary literature, literature of emigration, autobiographical narration, cultural representation, and comparative postcolonial literary studies.