Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) and index.
Introduction: righting the past -- Claiming Neda -- Human rights, humanitarianism, and empathic witnessing: prison memoirs -- Feeling nostalgic, feeling guilty: remembering Iran in documentary film -- Repetitions of the past: Marjane Satrapi and intergenerational memory -- Revolution, nostalgia, and memory in diasporic Iranian memoirs -- Conclusion: testimonial life narratives: anonymity and visibility.
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American prose literature-- Iranian American authors-- History and criticism.
Autobiographical memory in literature.
Autobiography.
Exiles' writings, Iranian-- History and criticism.
Human rights-- Iran.
Iranian Americans, Biography-- History and criticism.