Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 - Couverture rigide

Kashani-Sabet, Firoozeh

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1850432708 ISBN 13 : 9781850432708

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2000

Synopsis

In _Frontier Fictions_, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The ‘frontier fictions’, or the ways in which the Iranians viewed their often fluctuating borders and the conflicts surrounding them, played a dominant role in defining the Iranian nation. On these borderlands, new ideas of citizenship and nationality were unleashed, refining older ideas of ethnicity.

Kashani-Sabet maintains that conceptions of countries based on the territory they covered existed before the advent of the modern nation-state. Her focus on geography enables her to explore and document fully ideas of modern citizenship in Iran, ‘love of homeland’, the hegemony of the Persian language and widespread interest in archaeology, travel and map-making. Kashani-Sabet explains what connects people to a specific place. Her approach enriches our understanding not only of Iranian nationalism, but also of nationalism everywhere.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "frontier fictions" or the ways in which the Iranians viewed their often fluctuating borders and the conflicts surrounding them, played a dominant role in defining the nation. On these borderlands, new ideas of citizenship and nationality were unleashed, refining older ideas of ethnicity. Kashani-Sabet maintains that land-based conceptions of countries existed before the advent of the modern nation-state. Her focus on geography enables her to explore and document fully a wide range of aspects of modern citizenship in Iran, including love of homeland, the hegemony of the Persian language, and widespread interest in archaeology, travel, and map-making. While many historians have focused on the concept of the "imagined community" in their explanations of the rise of nationalism, Kashani-Sabet is able to complement this perspective with a very tangible explanation of what connects people to a specific place. Her approach is intended to enrich our understanding not only of Iranian nationalism, but also of nationalism everywhere.

Biographie de l'auteur

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet was born in Tehran, Iran. She completed her Ph.D. in history at Yale University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1850432708
• ISBN 13: 9781850432708
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 328
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