Refashioning Iran : Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Historiography
\ Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York
: Palgrave MacMillan
, 2001.
xvi, 216 p.
(St. Antony's series)
Code E.Book: 10938
The printed format of this book is also available.
Bibliography.
Machine generated contents note: 1 Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts -- Modernity and heterotopia -- Discursive affinities of nationalism and Orientalism -- Homeless texts -- Decolonizing historical imagination -- 2 Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia -- A genealogy of Orientalism -- The Columbus of Oriental studies -- Jones and the affinity of languages -- Intertextuality and postcolonial historiography -- 3 Persianate Europology -- Perspectival knowledge -- Persianate voy(ag)eurs -- The anthropology of modern Europe -- 4 Imagining European Women -- Farangi women -- Comparing women -- Libertine women -- Narrative plots and the scapegoating of women -- Seeing oneself being seen -- 5 Contested Memories -- Narrative emplotment -- Islamicating history -- Recentering Iran -- 6 Crafting National Identity -- Envisaging history -- Restyling Persian -- 7 Patriotic and Matriotic Nationalism -- Vatan-centered discourse -- vii -- Nationalized subjectivity -- National-public sphere -- Maternal homeland (madar-i vatan) -- Matriotic sentiments -- 8 Postscript -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.