Titlebook: Refashioning Iran; Orientalism, Occiden Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Book 2001 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 20

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,Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia, conditions of its emergence and the production of its linguistic and textual tools. By turning “the Orient” into an object of analysis and gaze, Orientalism as a European institution of learning anathematized the Asian pedagogues of its practitioners. Embedded in an active process of forgetting, hi

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Persianate Europology,yed to England in 1766–9 recounted: “The young and old gazed at my countenance and shape and I stared at their beauty and face. I journeyed for a spectacle and became a spectacle myself.”. Some 70 years later another Persian traveler, Prince Riza Quli Mirza, is reported to have turned abruptly to hi

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Imagining European Women,nting of their self-experience provided the material for the formation of competing discourses on women of Europe. With the political hegemony of Europe, a woman’s body served as an important marker of identity and difference and as a terrain of cultural and political contestations. The eroticized d

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Contested Memories,nings are embedded in narrative structures that terminate in the Muslim conquest of Iran and the death of Yazdigird III (d. 31/651 or 652), the last Sasanian king. In early “Islamicate” historiography the accounts of ancient Iran served as an allegory of the Persian (differentially identified as .,

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Crafting National Identity,nguage. Informed by . texts and inspired by the . of Firdawsi, modern historical writings harnessed the Iranian homeland (.) to an immemorial past beginning with Mahabad and Kayumars and pointing toward a future unison with Europe. Iran’s pre-Islamic past was celebrated as a glorious and industrious

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,Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia,f Orientalism appropriates as its own the agency, authorality, and creativity of its Other. As a hegemonic and totalizing discourse, Orientalism celebrates its own perspectival account as scientific and objective while forgetting the histories and perspectives informing its origins.

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