{"product_id":"missing-persians-discovering-voices-in-iranian-cultural-history-paperback","title":"Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNasrin Rahimieh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMissing Persians\u003c\/i\u003e serves to articulate in elegant, vibrant prose the disparate and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Nasrin Rahimieh's complex and nuanced arguments effectively demonstrate the links that her five figures have to a stable Persian identity--complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRahimieh delineates the captivating histories of \"missing\" Persians from the sixteenth century to modern times and defines the arbitrary generic boundaries that isolate Persian biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, and social histories. Balancing their documentary and historical value with creative and fictional elements, she reads them as individual engagements with broader questions of Persian identity at different moments of the nation's history. As modes of self-expression, these texts reveal both remnants of traditional Persian literary forms and new styles adopted through translations and readings in European literature and history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven as it sheds new light on crucial points in cultural self-definition, \u003ci\u003eMissing Persians\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fresh look at traditional institutions, the role of women, and Persia's turbulent struggle to enter modernity on its own terms.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNasrin Rahimieh\u003c\/b\u003e is associate dean of humanities and professor of comparative literature at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eOriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9.1 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52618367926579,"sku":"9780815628378","price":39.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/QjgrVWh5eW92SkFwTUdzbDdyRTBaUT09.webp?v=1761904676","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/missing-persians-discovering-voices-in-iranian-cultural-history-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}