My Shadow Is My Skin

Voices from the Iranian Diaspora

Katherine Whitney, Leila Emery (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2020
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
9781477320273 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The Iranian revolution of 1979 launched a vast, global diaspora, with many Iranians establishing new lives in the United States. In the four decades since, the diaspora has expanded to include not only those who emigrated immediately after the revolution but also their American-born children, more recent immigrants, and people who married into Iranian families, all of whom carry their own stories of trauma, triumph, adversity, and belonging that reflect varied and nuanced perspectives on what it means to be Iranian or Iranian American. The essays in My Shadow Is My Skin are these stories.

This collection brings together thirty-two authors, both established and emerging, whose writing captures the diversity of Iranian diasporic experiences. Reflecting on the Iranian American experience over the past forty years and shedding new light on themes of identity, duality, and alienation in twenty-first-century America, the authors present personal narratives of immigration, sexuality, marginalization, marriage, and religion that offer an antidote to the news media’s often superficial portrayals of Iran and the people who have a connection to it. My Shadow Is My Skin illuminates a community that rarely gets to tell its own story.

Katherine Whitney first wrote on the Iranian diaspora in the anthology Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves. She graduated from Duke University and received an MA in Museum Studies from John F. Kennedy University. Leila Emery is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Parentheses Journal, Matter, and Lines+Stars. She is a graduate of Smith College and holds an MA in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University.

Foreword, Persis Karim
Introduction
LIGHT/SHADOW

The Summer I Disappeared, Jasmin Darznik
Sacrifices, Iraj Isaac Rahmim
Shadow Nation, Cyrus M. Copeland
Two Minutes to Midnight, Daniel Rafinejad
When We Were Lions, Mehdi Tavana Okasi
Fortune-Tellers, Dena Afrasiabi
Silkscreen, Omid Fallahazad
Hookah, Once upon a Time (Pastiche after Roberto BolaÑo), Poupeh Missaghi
Think of the Trees, Leila Emery
Pushing the Boundaries, Dena Rod
Uninvited Guest, Roia Ferrazares

CODING/DECODING

The Name on My Coffee Cup, SaÏd Sayrafiezadeh
Negotiating Memories, Amy Malek
In Praise of Big Noses, Persis Karim
Transmutations of/by Language, Raha Namy
Gilad, My Enemy, Salar Abdoh
Two Countries, One Divided Self, Roger Sedarat
Mothering across the Cultural Divide, Katherine Whitney
My Mom Killed Michael Jackson, Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh
Am I an Immigrant?, Roxanne Varzi
1,916 Days, Mandana Chaffa
Culture beyond Language, Leyla Farzaneh

MEMORY/LONGING

Forget Me Not, Shideh Etaat
Errand, Babak Elahi
The Color of the Bricks, Farnaz Fatemi
Renounce and Abjure All Allegiance, Renata Khoshroo Louwers
Learning Farsi, Darius Atefat-Peckham
Delam Tang Shodeh, Shireen Day
Walking with Zahra, Layla Razavi
Halva, Nazanine Attaran
Her Orange-Blossom Tea, Maryam Atai
The Iranians of Mercer Island, Siamak Vossoughi

Acknowledgments
Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	17.03.2020
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
ISBN-13	9781477320273 / 9781477320273
Zustand	Neuware