Iran Without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation - Couverture rigide

Dabashi, Hamid

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1784780685 ISBN 13 : 9781784780685

Editeur : Verso Books, 2016

Synopsis

'No ruling regime,' writes Hamid Dabashi, 'could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people.' For decades, the narrative about Iran has been dominated by a false binary, in which the traditional ruling Islamist regime is counterposed against a modern population of educated, secular urbanites. However, Iran has for many centuries been a nation forged from a diverse mix of influences, most of them non-sectarian and cosmopolitan. In Iran Without Borders, the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar of Iranian history Hamid Dabashi traces the evolution of this worldly culture from the eighteenth century to the present day, journeying through social and intellectual movements, and the lives of writers, artists and public intellectuals who articulated the idea of Iran on a transnational public sphere. Many left their homeland - either physically or emotionally - and imagined it from places as far-flung as Istanbul, Cairo, Calcutta, Paris, or New York, but together they forged a nation as worldly as it is multifarious.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of, among other works, Iran: A People Interrupted.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784780685
• ISBN 13: 9781784780685
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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