Bøger udgivet af Aasoo

In this book, the author argues that "Iranianity" was not invented in the context of the so-called "colonial modernization" of a peripheral country. Rather, Iranian national identity existed as a remembrance in the Persian literary tradition long before the formation of the modern nation-state in Iran in the early twentieth century. The author uses a post-structural literary theoretical framework, inspired by Michail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, along with writings of theorists such as Michel Foucault, Benedict Anderson, and Étienne Balibar to offer a re-reading of the main trends in classic (canonical) and modern Persian literature, demonstrating the deep indigenous roots of Iranian national identity.

'Forgotten Women', tells the life stories of 14 women incarcerated in the public ward of Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran. Some narrations reflect documented lives, some are constructed as a mixture of imagination and reality, at times using pieces from the lives of other female prisoners or incidents happening in the daily life of the ward, and some others are comprised of the exact manuscripts of women longing to be heard from the behind the bars.