Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Translations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Goli Taraqqi: A Committed Writer? -- Two Decades of Silence -- The Literature of the Islamic Revolution -- Goli Taraqqi: A Feminist Writer? -- Emigration Literature -- Critical Reception -- Goli Taraqqi's Fiction: Narratives of Space -- Identity, Space, and Transcultural Significations -- Chapter 2 Entangled Identities: Space, Mobility, Individuation -- The Che Guevara Stories and the Verge of Transition -- Zygmunt Bauman: Disembedding the Self, a Postulated Project -- Surmounting the Communal Structures: Thesis, Antithesis, and the Final Escape -- Lost in the Maze: "Man ham Che Guevara hastam" and the Obstructed Mobility -- Impeded in/by the Text -- The Impelling Force of Dissatisfaction -- The Smashed Cooking Pot -- "Yek ruz:" An Attempt at Re-Unification -- A Counterargument to Mr. Heydari's Ideal -- Needy Hands vs. Self-Content Hands -- The Adjacent Death and the Distant Vitality -- The Impossible Backward Movement: Verification of Mr. Heydari's Attitude -- "Jayi digar:" Conflict Resolved -- Amir 'Ali: A Prototype of Mr. Heydari -- A Room of One's Own -- The Unshaped, Empty Deserts -- The Free Flight of the Kite -- Conflict Resolved -- Corporeal Self-Alteration as a Means to Escape Communal Structures -- Amputation: A Way to Be Cut Off from the Communal Body -- Two Modes of Self-Reference -- Descriptive Self-Reference -- Reflective Self-Reference -- Amputation: The Conflict Itself or the Symbolic Resolution? -- The Downward Journey -- Narration: A Way Outwards -- "Khoshbakhti:" The Silenced Narration -- A Battle of Voices -- Happiness and Narrative Communication -- Conditional Articulation -- Discursive Devaluation -- Self-Elimination for the Sake of Self-Expression -- "Mi'ad:" A Postponed Promise -- The Will to Narrate and the Urge to Leave.

Narration: The Means to Express Selfhood, the Means of Happiness -- The Autofictional Dimension -- Chapter 3 Displacement: The Problematics of Self-Space and the Trauma of Identification -- Displacement and Its Impact on Representational Practices -- Representation: Communication in Culture -- Identification and Space -- The Problem of Self-Space in Taraqqi's Stories -- "Khaneh'i dar aseman:" The Dangling Position of the Displaced -- Mas'ud D.'s Initiation of the Journey: Narrative Reconstruction of the Other on the Threshold of Departure -- Lost Space, Lost Temporality: Nostalgia, a Narrative Attempt at Self-Preservation -- Mahin Banu in Farang: The Problem of Space, the Shrinkage of Body -- Suspension in Mid-Air: The Retreat from the Symbolic -- Aqa-ye Alef and the Door Dilemma -- The Room and Mr. Alef's Door Anxiety -- "Madame Gorgeh:" Reconstruction of Self-Space in Exile -- Chapter 4 "Avvalin ruz" and "Akharin ruz:" The Function of Self-Narration -- Narrative Oscillation: The Self in an Alien Environment -- The Relation between Self and Narrativity: An Issue of Debate -- Autobiographical Function: Leaving the Madhouse -- Chapter 5 Homeland Re-Focalized: Shifted Significations and a Less Traumatized Style -- Homi K. Bhabha's Approach to the Study of Colonial Knowledge -- Bhabha: Cultural Hybridity -- Bhabha: Third Space and Cultural Translation -- Goli Taraqqi and Her Authorial Stance within the Third Space -- Farang: An Equivalent of the West? -- Farang Signified -- Farang in Taraqqi's Childhood and Adolescent Memories: Associations -- Farang's Associations -- Farang: A Differentiating Element -- The Encounter with Farang -- Farang Undermined -- Farang: An Ambiguous Locale -- "Otobus-e Shemiran:" 'Aziz Aqa's Magic Lamp -- Mimicry: Mastering the Culture of the Other -- Liminal Spaces: Amalgams of Truths -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.

English Translations of the Titles of Taraqqi's Short Stories -- Bibliography -- Index.

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