Representing Post-Revolutionary Iran

Chapter 1: Introduction: Inscribing Iran in the West
Historical Significance and Earliest Figurations
Fabricating an "Axis of Evil"
Constructing the Iranian Other
Iranian Others in Others' Literature

Chapter 2: Not Without My Daughter: The Mother of Neo-Orientalist Best-sellers
Resurrecting the American Captivity Narrative
Tales of Caution and Mixed Marriage Menace
Ghosting Ghastly Narratives
West Meets East: Clash of Civilization and Un-Civilization
Writing Iranians Colonially
Defilement and Contamination
The Cult of Iranian Domesticity
Affirmation, Negation, and Bestialization
Multitudinous Others
Linguistic Sovereignty
The Mad Muslim Man
Going Native: From American Gentleman to Iranian Brute
"Veiled Humanity": The Oriental Accomplice
Willing Convicts Vs. Western Rebels
The Villain Writes Back

Chapter 3: Damsels in Distress: Writing Muslim "Lolitas" in the West
Reading Azar Nafisi in the U.S.
The Front Cover Controversy
Behind the Veil: The Topos Oblige of Feminist Orientalism
Bridging the "Oriental Harem" to the "Free World"
From Neo-Orientalism to Neo-Conservatism
From the Western Canon to the West's Cannons
Curricular and Minority Questions
The Western Novel
Ahistorical Historicism and Learned Amnesia

Chapter 4: Strains of Dissent and a Fledgling Alternative Discourse
Jasmine and Stars: Cracking the Orientalist Monolith
The Rebellious Bard
Reinscribing Iranian Masculinity
The Latter-Day Persian Scheherazade
Unmasking Lolita in the West
Humanizing the Persian Patriarch
Reading Beyond Jasmine and Stars

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• Estudos cultirais
• Literatura: história e crítica
• História do Oriente Médio

Iranian Memoirs; Iranian Revolution; Orientalism; Betty Mahmoody; Azar Nafisi; Marjane Satrapi; captivity narrative