This work serves to articulate the disparate, dispersed, and displaced narratives of five Persian subjects. Its complex arguments show five figures' links to a stable Persian identity - complicated by their experiences of travel, exile, conversion, and social change.
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
(20)
A Conversion Gone Awry
21
(18)
The Tribulations of an Early Tourist
39
(32)
A New Menu for Alterity
71
(34)
An Armchair Traveler's Journeys Around the Self
105
(30)
A Performer Manque
135
(23)
Conclusion
158
(13)
Works Cited
171
(6)
Index
177
Nasrin Rahimieh is associate dean of arts and professor of comparative literature at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the author of Oriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World.