Roxanne Varzi

Warring Souls

Youth, Media, and Martyrdom in Post-Revolution Iran

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An ethnography of secular youth culture in Tehran and its resistance to post-Revolutionary Islamicist politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 147mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337096
• ISBN-10: 0822337096
• Artikelnr.: 21101360

Autorenporträt

Roxanne Varzi

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: The Journey xiii
Introduction. Divination: An Archeology of the Unknown 1
1. The Image and the Hidden Master 23
2. Mystic States: Martyrdom and the Making of the Islamic Republic 44
3. Shooting Soldiers, Shooting Film: The Cinema of the Iranian Sacred
Defense 76
4. Visionary States: Inhabiting the City, Inhabiting the Mind 106
5. Shifting Subjects: Public Law and Private Selves 131
6. Majnun's Mask: Sex, Suicide, and Semiotic Malfunctioning 155
7. The Ghost in the Machine: (Just War?) Remainders and Reminders of War
175
8. Reforming Religious Identity in Post-Khatami Iran 194
Conclusion. Mehdi's Climb 209
Epilogue 214
Notes 219
Works Cited 263
Index 269