Iran without borders : towards a critique of the postcolonial nation / Hamid Dabashi.
Iran without borders : towards a critique of the postcolonial nation / Hamid Dabashi.
Iran without borders : towards a critique of the postcolonial nation / Hamid Dabashi.
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London ; New York : Verso, 2016.
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G 2017/6000
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English
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248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- Craving for India -- Learning French and Russian -- The young and the liberated -- The sphere of earth -- Sailing upon the waters round the globe -- The world is my home -- Where is homeland? -- Geographical indeterminacy -- Conclusion.
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London ; New York : Verso, 2016.
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England
Date Published
2016.
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""No ruling regime," writes Hamid Dabashi, "could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people." For decades, the narrative about Iran has been dominated by a false binary, in which the traditional ruling Islamist regime is counterposed against a modern population of educated, secular urbanites. However, Iran has for many cen...
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Iran without borders : towards a critique of the postcolonial nation / Hamid Dabashi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/6000
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74VKVgyzRKLd
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ISBN
1784780685 (hardback)
9781784780685 (hardback)
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955
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991024148691702626
