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PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-10147801881X

ISBN-139781478018810

eBay Product ID (ePID)17057263115

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Number of Pages352 Pages

Publication NameThis Flame Within : Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAsia / General, Gender Studies, Middle East / Iran

Publication Year2022

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorManijeh Moradian

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight18.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2021-057116

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsThis wonderful book examines the history of the left wing of the Iranian diaspora in the U.S., developing a theory of revolutionary affect in the process. Moradian is a wonderful writer and interviewer who combines analytic sophistication with an unusual kind of political and intellectual generosity., This Flame Within takes seriously the power, pleasure, and melancholy of social movements. It would work especially well in upper-level undergraduate and graduate seminars. Moradian's MFA in creative nonfiction and many years of organizing work in progressive feminist of color and anti-war social movements help her construct a beautifully written academic book that is also a generous and tender recording of social history., Manijeh Moradian's This Flame Within is a path breaking contribution to ethnic and transnational feminist studies that helps expand the field of Asian American studies and rewrite its genealogy from a new perspective--a new movement, region, and archive., A useful contribution to the many legacies of the Iranian revolution, and not just of the secular masculine left. Examining This Flame Within allows one to ask how revolutionary knowledge is transmitted across generations, how new generational understandings draw on lessons from historical legacies on which they claim to build, and how so-called defeats and victories in the past actually have complicated and multiple legacies for future action., An important and timely history of the Iranian Students Association (ISA) during the Cold War era. . . . Moradian's meticulous close readings of her interlocutors--their words, emotions, and bodily comportments--give readers a sense of the weight that this history holds for her subjects. Her ability to access these communities and forms of knowledge is particularly critical to her arguments on affect.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal371.8299155073

Table Of ContentAbbreviations 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

SynopsisIn This Flame Within 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. Drawing on archival evidence and in-depth interviews with members of the Iranian Students Association, Moradian traces what she calls "revolutionary affects"--the embodied force of affect generated by experiences of repression and resistance--from encounters with empire and dictatorship in Iran to joint organizing with other student activists in the United States. Moradian theorizes "affects of solidarity" that facilitated Iranian student participation in a wide range of antiracist and anticolonial movements and analyzes gendered manifestations of revolutionary affects within the emergence of Third World feminism. Arguing for a transnational feminist interpretation of the Iranian Student Association's legacy, Moradian demonstrates how the recognition of multiple sources of oppression in the West and in Iran can reorient Iranian diasporic politics today., 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.

LC Classification NumberDS318.81.M68 2022