Toward Strategic Auto-Orientalism in Iranian American Self-Narrative: A Critique of Jasmin Darznik's The Good Daughter.
This paper critiques Jasmin Darznik's bestselling memoir, The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life (2011), in order to investigate the author's literary response to mainstream, (neo-)Orientalist literary representations of Iranian women in the United States. In doing so, this study set...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 1 - 28 |
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University of Nebraska Press
2022
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