Iran and the West

Cultural Perceptions from the Sasanian Empire to the Islamic Republic

Margaux Whiskin, David Bagot (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2019
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-83860-705-0 (ISBN)

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Since the age of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 AD), Iran and the West have time and again appeared to be at odds. Iran and the West charts this contentious and complex relationship by examining the myriad ways the two have perceived each other, from antiquity to today. Across disciplines, perspectives and periods contributors consider literary, imagined, mythical, visual, filmic, political and historical representations of the 'other' and the ways in which these have been constructed in, and often in spite of, their specific historical contexts. Many of these narratives, for example, have their origin in the ancient world but have since been altered, recycled and manipulated to fit a particular agenda. Ranging from Tacitus, Leonidas and Xerxes via Shahriar Mandanipour and Azar Nafisi to Rosewater, Argo and 300, this inter-disciplinary and wide-ranging volume is essential reading for anyone working on the complex history, present and future of Iranian-Western relations.

Margaux Whiskin is a lecturer in the languages department at the University of Warwick. She has previously taught at Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of St. Andrews, where she also received her PhD. David Bagot is a lecturer in History and Politics at Newcastle-under-Lyme College. He also received his PhD from the University of St. Andrews.

Foreword by Ali Ansari
Introduction by Margaux Whiskin
Part 1. CLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS
1. The Graeco-Roman World and the Old Persian Civilisation, Between Archaeological and Historical Evidence
Bruno Genito
2. Tacitus and the Great Kings
Leonardo Gregoratti
3.Roman and Iranian Perceptions of the Other in Late Antiquity
David Bagot
4. Xerxes and Leonidas: Conversations Between Ancient Persia and Seventeenth-Century France
Margaux Whiskin
Part 2. LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS
5. German Translations of Sa’di’s Golestân (The Rose Garden)
Nina Zandjani
6. ‘Parisian or Persian?’: An Introduction on the French Roots of the First Iranian Social Novels
Ali Behpajooh
7. Entrapped in a Carved-up Land: Revisiting Lolita in Tehran
Amir Ahmadi Arian
8. ‘Our White Hands’: Iran and Germany’s 1968
Annie Pfeifer
9. ‘Death to Freedom, Death to Captivity’: Beyond Shahriar Mandanipour’s ‘Islamic’ Love Story
Roxanne Bibizadeh
10. Homeland Dramatizations and Native Gaze Demolitions in Nahid Rachlin’s Foreigner and Porochista Khakpour’s Sons and Other Flammable Objects
Giulia Valsecchi
Part 3. IMAGINING THE OTHER: FACT AND FANTASY IN CULTURAL INFLUENCES
11. Tbilisi as a Bridge Between Iran and Europe in the 19th Century
George Sanikidze
12. Reading Illness as Difference: American Medical Missionaries in Iran, 1834-1940
Lydia Wytenbroek
13. A Narrative of Historical and Cultural Ties Between Iran and Romania
Elham Malekzadeh
Part 4. VISUAL AND MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS
14. Zan-i Farangi, a Symbol of Occident: the European Women in Farangi Sazi Paintings (1666-1694)
Negar Habibi
15. Meeting of Anthropology and Racial Ideology in Hollywood: Discovering ‘the Forgotten People’ and Remembering ‘the Lost Tribe’ in Grass (1925)
Ali Sadidi Heris
16. The Many Faces of Soraya in the German Popular Press in the 1950s
Birgit Röder
17. Veils, Vampires and the Western Gaze: Gender Images and the Notion of Beauty from Qajar to Post-Revolutionary Iran
Maryam Aras
Part 5. POLITICAL PERCEPTIONS
18. The Enduring Orient: British Perceptions of Iran, 1906-1909 and 1976-1979
Savka Andic
19. Demonising Britain, Embracing Russia: Political Double Standards or Political Oblivion?
Nahid Ghani
20. The Great Satan and the Axis of Evil: The Politics of Demonization in Iran and the United States
Laleh Gomari-Luksch
21. Possibilities of a Renewed Engagement Between Iran and the West
Muhammad Athar Masood
Afterword by Andrew Knapp

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	9 bw illus
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-83860-705-6 / 1838607056
ISBN-13	978-1-83860-705-0 / 9781838607050
Zustand	Neuware