Manijeh Moradian

This Flame Within

Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018810
• ISBN-10: 147801881X
• Artikelnr.: 62995793

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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