عنوان

Iran and the West : cultural perceptions from the Sasanian Empire to the Islamic Republic

9781784538569

1395670

انگلیسی

Iran and the West : cultural perceptions from the Sasanian Empire to the Islamic Republic

[book]

/edited by David Bagot, Margaux Whiskin.

London

: I.B. Tauris

, 2018.

xxii, 344 p.

: ill.

; 23 cm

International library of Iranian studies

; 42.

Includes bibliographical references: p.315-339

Includes Index

Introduction / Margaux Whiskin -- Misremembering Thermopylae -- The East-West Dichotomy -- Classical Representations -- Tacitus and the Great Kings / Leonardo Gregoratti -- Roman and Iranian Perceptions of the Other in Late Antiquity / David Bagot -- Roman Perceptions of the Iranians -- Iranian Perceptions of Romans -- Xerxes and Leonidas: Conversations Between Ancient Persia and Seventeenth-Century France in Fénelon's Dialogue of the Dead / Margaux Whiskin -- Use of Classical Sources -- Dialogues of the Dead -- Decontextualisation -- Educating a Future King -- Educating a Future Man -- Literary Representations -- Saadi's Perception of the West and German Translators' Perception of Iran in Saadi's Gulistan (The Rose Garden) / Nina Zandjani -- Paratexts and the Translator's Visibility -- The Persian Poet Saadi's Perception of the West -- German Translators' Perception of the Persians -- 'Parisian or Persian?': An Introduction on the French Roots of the First Iranian Social Navels / Ali Beh-Pajoob -- French Connection -- Reception of The Mysteries of Paris in Iran -- The Relationship Between The Mysteries of Paris and The Dreadful Tehran -- The Dreadful Tehran and its Discontents -- 'Our White Hands,' Iran and Germany's 1968 / Annie Pfeifer -- Nirumand's Critique -- Completely Empty and Strangely White -- Is Farah Happy? -- Entrapped in a Carved-Up Land: Revisiting Reading Lolita in Tehran / Amir Ahmadi Arian -- The Truth and the Whole Truth -- The Carved-Up Space: Tehran Through the Window Frame People without Backgrounds -- The Politics of Resignation: An Avenue Towards Disappearance -- 'Death to Freedom, Death to Captivity': Beyond Shahriar Mandanipour's 'Islamic' Love Story / Roxanne Ellen Bibizadeh -- Homeland Dramatisations and Native Gaze Demolitions in Nahid Rachlin's Foreigner and Porochista Khakpour's Sons and Other Flammable Objects / Giulia Valsecchi -- Imagining The Other: Fact And Fantasy In Cultural And Political Influences -- Tbilisi as a Bridge Between Iran and Europe, from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries / George Sanikidze -- Russo-Persian Wars and Georgia -- Economic Interactions -- Europeans Visiting Tbilisi -- Iranians in Tbilisi -- Generational Differences: American Medical Missionaries in Iran, 1834-1940 / Lydia Wytenbroek -- A Narrative of Historical and Cultural Ties Between Iran and Romania / Elham Malekzadeb -- Documents on the History of Cultural Relations between Iran and Romania -- The Great Satan and the Axis of Evil: The Politics of Demonisation in Iran and the United States / Laleh Gomari-Luksch -- Brief Historical Background of Iran-US Relations -- Post-Structuralism, Discourse and Identity Construction -- The Great Satan, Iranian Identity and Legitimisation of the Nuclear Programme -- The Axis of Evil, American Identity and Legitimisation of the 'War on Terror' -- The Legitimisation of Direct Talks -- Visual And Media Representations -- Zan-I Farangi, a Symbol of Occident: The European Women in Farangi Sazi Paintings (1666-94) / Negar Habibi -- The Iranian Occidentalist Paintings -- Zan-i farangi and its Diverse Persian Interpretations -- Meeting of Anthropology and Racial Ideology in Hollywood: Discovering 'The Forgotten People' and Remembering 'The Lost Tribe' in Grass (1925) / Ali Sadidi Heris -- Ethnography as an Imperial Project of Ethno-Racial Classifications -- The Bakhtiari as True Aryans: Racial Theory and Ethnography -- The Life of Thousands of Years Ago: Cultural Evolution and Myth of 'Lost Tribes' -- 'Soraya Cried for Three Days': The Many Faces of Iranian-German Royalty in the German Popular Press in the 1950s and 1960s / Birgit Röder -- Persepolis: The Shah's National Fiction / Margaux Whiskin -- Social Rupture -- Sites of Memory -- On the Screens -- The Double Parade -- Celebrations as a Site of Memory -- Vampires, Veils and the Western Gaze: Gender Images and the Notion of Beauty From Qajar to Post-Revolutionary Iran / Maryam Aras -- Beauty and Gender Images in Qajar Iran -- The Veiled Body as a Marker of Backwardness -- The Veiled Body as a Marker of Anti-Imperialism -- The Abjection of the Islamic Body -- Representations of the Veiled Female Body -- Further Thoughts -- Afterword: Isfahan 1976-8: A Personal Recollection / Andrew Knapp -- Before: Iran and its Disaffected Elite -- Orientalism and Modernity -- The Western Presence -- The Paykan People -- Sex and the Gay Scene -- Orientalism Again -- Politics.

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"Since the age of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD), Iran and the West have time and again appeared to be at odds. Iran and the West charts this contentious and complex relationship by examining the myriad ways the two have perceived each other, from antiquity to today. Across disciplines, perspectives and periods contributors consider literary, imagined, mythical, visual, filmic, political and historical representations of the 'other' and the ways in which these have been constructed in, and often in spite of, their specific historical contexts. Many of these narratives, for example, have their origin in the ancient world but have since been altered, recycled and manipulated to fit a particular agenda. Ranging from Tacitus, Leonidas and Xerxes via Shahriar Mandanipour and Azar Nafisi to Rosewater, Argo and 300, this inter-disciplinary and wide-ranging volume is essential reading for anyone working on the complex history, present and future of Iranian-Western relations."--Back cover.

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