Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature [Hardcover]

This study aims to foreground key literary works in Persian and Australian culture that deal with the representation of exile and dislocation. Through cultural and literary analysis, Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature investigates the influence of dislocation on self-perception and the remaking of connections both through the act of writing and the attempt to transcend social conventions. Examining writing and identity in David Maloufs An Imaginary Life (1978), Iranian Diaspora Literature, and Shahrnush Parsipurs Women Without Men (1989/ Eng.1998), Hasti Abbasi provides a literary analysis of dislocation, with its social and psychological manifestations. Abbasi reveals how the exploration of exile/dislocation, as a narrative that needs to be investigated through imagination and meditation, provides a mechanism for creative writing practice.

1.      Introduction: Dislocation and Writing

2.      Writing in Exile

3.      Maloufs An Imaginary Life

3.1.   Exile and Romantic Writing

3.2.   Ovids Poetic Language

3.3.   Untamed Nature as a Background to Human Drama

3.4.   The Child: Beyond the Limits of Self-identity

3.5.   A Sense of Exile

3.6.   Metamorphoses and Metamorphoses

3.7.   Symbols: Garden and Seasons

3.8.   Sexuality and Desire

4.      Parsipurs Womls~