Interactions Between Iranian and American Literatures

Introducing "narrative mobility" as a new approach in comparative studies of Iran and the US, this book reinterprets the politics and aesthetics of relations between the nations.

Autorentext

***received her PhD in Comparative Literature at Humboldt University, Berlin. She has published articles in Bloomsbury's World Literature Series and in U.S. American Culture as Popular Culture.* Her research areas include comparative literature, (global) media culture, trans/intermediality, film, game, and narrative studies.

Klappentext

Introducing "narrative mobility" as a new approach in comparative studies of Iran and the US, this book reinterprets the politics and aesthetics of relations between the nations.

Inhalt

1. At the Entrance to the Story 2. Narrative Mobility: Exchange across the Borders of Nations and Cultures 3. Physical Mobility as the Circulation of People from Different Worlds 4. The Otherworld of What Was Known and Lost (Historia-Political Narrative and Virtual/Imaginative Mobility) 5. The Storytellers of One Thousand and One Night (Cultural Narrative and Virtual/Imaginative Mobility) 6. The Vulgar Face of a Lost System (Economic Narrative and Virtual/Imaginative Mobility) 7. Strange Affinity: The Historical Irony of Cultural Circulation Between Iran and the US