An Iranian Childhood: Rethinking History and Memory

ISBN-13: 9781316512852 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

New York) Dabashi Hamid (Columbia University

Opis

A vibrant, unique and personal examination of the overlap between history and memory, focusing on Iranian childhoods.

Recenzje

''It is not the son who kills the father, but the father who kills the son': this memorable takeaway from a thousand-year-old Persian epic echoes through a great scholar's account of his bookish postcolonial childhood. Compulsively readable, a charismatic teacher in love with the freshness of children and their love of stories, Dabashi offers an accelerated course in Great Books and tenderness for the world.' Bruce Robbins, Columbia University

Spis treści

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Prelude: myself as another; 1. My memories of our forgetfulness; 2. Once upon a moonlight in the merry month of June; 3. The house in the Ardeshir street; 4. My elephant was dreaming of India; Epilogue: myself as myself; Bibliography; Index.