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Iran Without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation

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Iran Without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation

A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran

â€œNo ruling regime,â€ writes Hamid Dabashi, â€œcould ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people.â€ For decades, the narrative about Iran has been dominated by a false binary, in which the traditional ruling Islamist regime is counterposed to a modern population of educated, secular urbanites. However, Iran has for many centuries been a nation forged from a diverse mix of influences, most of them non-sectarian and cosmopolitan.

In Iran Without Borders, the acclaimed cultural critic and scholar of Iranian history Hamid Dabashi traces the evolution of this worldly culture from the eighteenth century to the present day, journeying through social and intellectual movements, and the lives of writers, artists and public intellectuals who articulated the idea of Iran on a transnational public sphere. Many left their homelandâ€”either physically or emotionallyâ€”and imagined it from places as far-flung as Istanbul, Cairo, Calcutta, Paris, or New York, but together they forged a nation as worldly as it is multifarious.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso
Binding Hardcover
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2016-08-09
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781784780685

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