Iranian Culture

Nasrin Rahimieh is the Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature and culture. She is author of Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural Identity.

• Introduction Chapter One Back to the Future: Time Travel and Iranian Identity Chapter Two: Shooting the Past, Staging the Revolution Chapter Three Stage Managing the Return of the Repressed Chapter Four From the Displaced to the Misplaced Chapter Five The Hen’s Husband, or Deterritorializations of Persian Chapter Six Illuminating Internal Alterities Conclusion

"The book is a major addition to the existing studies in Iranian culture and identity and broadens our understanding of the complexities inherent in Iranian culture and the ways Iranians are constantly performing their identities.While the book will be of significant interest to scholars of Iranian and Middle Eastern studies, it will also be of interest to specialists of diaspora studies, cultural studies, film studies, and literary criticism. Rahimieh’s graceful writing style and incorporation of various cultural productions will help make the topic available to a wide readership."Claudia Yaghoobi -Assistant Professor of International Literature, Georgia College and State University in the Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World January 2016.