Iran facing others: identity boundaries in a historical perspective

Iran's long history and complex cultural legacy have generated animated debates about a homogenous Iranian identity in the face of ethnic, linguistic and communal diversity. The volume examines the fluid boundaries of pre-modern identity in history and literature as well as the shaping of Iranian national identity in the 20th century. ABBAS AMANAT Professor of History and International and Area Studies at Yale University, USA. FARZIN VEJDANIGraduate student at Yale University, USA. INDICE: PART I: LEGACY OF CULTURAL EXCLUSION - Iran and Aniran: The Shaping of a Legend; 'D.Davis' - Redrawing the Boundaries of '''Ajam' 'in Early Modern Persian Literary History; 'S.Sharma - 'PART II: THE INTERNAL FRONTIERS - Iranian History in Transition: Recasting the Symbolic Identity of Babak Khorramdin; 'T.Atabaki' - Across the Black Sands and the Red: Travel and the Frontiersof Nineteenth-Century Central Asia; 'A.Khazeni' - PART III: EMPIRES AND ENCOUNTERS - Facing a Rude and Barbarous Neighbor: Iranian Perceptions of Russia and the Russians from the Safavids to the Qajars; 'R.Matthee - 'British Imperialism, Regionalism, and Nationalism in Iran, 1889-1919; 'H.L.Stebbins' - Shifting Loyalties in Imperial Borderlands: Safavid Renegades and Ottoman Rebels; 'F.Zarinebaf - 'PART IV: SELF-FASHIONING AND OTHERING - The Academic Debate on Iran and Iranian Identity: Challenging Nationalist and Orientalist Narratives; 'A.Matin-Asgari' - Some Thoughts on Inter-Societal Linkages between Iran and Iraq; 'H.Chehabi' - PART V: DOMESTIC AND GLOBALIZED ANXIETIES - Dolgoruki's 'Memoirs': From Fiction to Master Narrative; 'M.Yazdani' - Zoroastrians of Iran and Parsis of India: A Dilemma of Identity; 'M.Ringer - '

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10253-8
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 306
• Fecha Publicación: 16/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés