{"product_id":"women-write-iran-nima-naghibi-9780816683840","title":"Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen Write Iran\u003c\/i\u003e is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto\/biographical narratives across genres--including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels--and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution as a traumatic event and by a powerful nostalgia for an idealized past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaghibi is particularly interested in writing as both an expression of memory and an assertion of human rights. She discovers that \u003ci\u003ewriting\u003c\/i\u003e life narratives contributes to the larger enterprise of \u003ci\u003erighting\u003c\/i\u003e historical injustices. By drawing on the empathy of the reader\/spectator\/witness, Naghibi contends, life narratives offer the possibilities of connecting to others and responding with an increased commitment to social justice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book opens with an examination of how the widely circulated video footage of the death of Neda Agha-Soltan on the streets of Tehran in June 2009 triggered the articulation of life narratives by diasporic Iranians. It concludes with a discussion of the prominent place of the 1979 revolution in these narratives. Throughout, the focus is on works that have become popular in the West, such as Marjane Satrapi's best-selling graphic novel \u003ci\u003ePersepolis.\u003c\/i\u003e Naghibi addresses the significant questions raised by these works: How do we engage with human rights and social justice as readers in the West? How do these narratives draw our attention and elicit our empathic reactions? And what is our responsibility as witnesses to trauma, atrocity, and human suffering? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nima Naghibi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816683840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816683840\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d","brand":"Nima Naghibi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44716122800383,"sku":"9780816683840","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_83b9b381-8631-43d0-bbab-2106dfdb3264.jpg?v=1705681159","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/women-write-iran-nima-naghibi-9780816683840","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}