This Flame Within

Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States

Manijeh Moradian (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2022
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1618-2 (ISBN)

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In This Flame Within Manijeh Moradian revises conventional histories of Iranian migration to the United States as a post-1979 phenomenon characterized by the flight of pro-Shah Iranians from the Islamic Republic and recounts the experiences of Iranian foreign students who joined a global movement against US imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on archival evidence and in-depth interviews with members of the Iranian Students Association, Moradian traces what she calls “revolutionary affects”—the embodied force of affect generated by experiences of repression and resistance—from encounters with empire and dictatorship in Iran to joint organizing with other student activists in the United States. Moradian theorizes “affects of solidarity” that facilitated Iranian student participation in a wide range of antiracist and anticolonial movements and analyzes gendered manifestations of revolutionary affects within the emergence of Third World feminism. Arguing for a transnational feminist interpretation of the Iranian Student Association’s legacy, Moradian demonstrates how the recognition of multiple sources of oppression in the West and in Iran can reorient Iranian diasporic politics today.

Manijeh Moradian is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Before We Were “Terrorists” 1
1. Revolutionary Affects and the Archive of Memory 33
2. Revolt in the Metropole 69
3. Making the Most of an American Education 95
4. The Feeling and Practice of Solidarity 128
5. Political Cultures of Revolutionary Belonging 176
6. Intersectional Anti-Imperialism: Alternative Genealogies of Revolution and Diaspora 215
Conclusion. Revolutionary Affects and the Remaking of Diaspora 247
Notes 275
Bibliography 301
Index 323

Erscheinungsdatum	23.09.2022
Zusatzinfo	16 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-1618-3 / 1478016183
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-1618-2 / 9781478016182
Zustand	Neuware