Culture shock, trauma, exile, and nostalgia in Iranian-American literature
| Title: | Culture shock, trauma, exile, and nostalgia in Iranian-American literature |
| Author: | Reza, Carmen Amrina |
| Abstract: | This thesis is concerned with the concepts of exile, trauma, and nostalgia and how they all come together to create a sense of culture shock that the subjects of my thesis encountered. Azar Nafisi, Nahid Rachlin, Tara Bahrampour, and Azadeh Moaveni, are all Iranian-American authors, and despite their different life experiences and ages, they all encountered culture shock as it related to male-female relations, Iranian gender norms and issues of sex and sexuality and treatments and views of the female body as it relates to reproduction. |
| Department: | Middle Eastern Studies |
| Subject: |
Tara Bahrampour
Moaveni, Azadeh, 1976- Azar Nafisi Nahid Rachlin Exile in literature Cultural identity Iran Sex and sexuality Gender norms Iranian women Iranian American authors |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3158 |
| Date: | 2011-05 |
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