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This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States
In This Flame Within Manijeh Moradian revises conventional histories of Iranian migration to the United States as a post-1979 phenomenon characterized by the flight of pro-Shah Iranians from the Islamic Republic and recounts the experiences of Iranian foreign students who joined a global movement against US imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on archival evidence and in-depth interviews with members of the Iranian Students Association, Moradian traces what she calls "revolutionary affects"--the embodied force of affect generated by experiences of repression and resistance--from encounters with empire and dictatorship in Iran to joint organizing with other student activists in the United States. Moradian theorizes "affects of solidarity" that facilitated Iranian student participation in a wide range of antiracist and anticolonial movements and analyzes gendered manifestations of revolutionary affects within the emergence of Third World feminism. Arguing for a transnational feminist interpretation of the Iranian Student Association's legacy, Moradian demonstrates how the recognition of multiple sources of oppression in the West and in Iran can reorient Iranian diasporic politics today.
Book Details
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publish Date: Nov 29th, 2022
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.74in - 1.04lb
- EAN: 9781478018810
- Categories: • Middle East - Iran• Gender Studies
About the Author
Manijeh Moradian is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Praise for this book
"This wonderful book examines the history of the left wing of the Iranian diaspora in the U.S., developing a theory of revolutionary affect in the process. Moradian is a wonderful writer and interviewer who combines analytic sophistication with an unusual kind of political and intellectual generosity."--Lisa Duggan "Commie Pinko Queer newsletter" (5/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)
"This Flame Within takes seriously the power, pleasure, and melancholy of social movements. It would work especially well in upper-level undergraduate and graduate seminars. Moradian's MFA in creative nonfiction and many years of organizing work in progressive feminist of color and anti-war social movements help her construct a beautifully written academic book that is also a generous and tender recording of social history."--Neda Maghbouleh "Gender and Society" (7/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)
"A useful contribution to the many legacies of the Iranian revolution, and not just of the secular masculine left. Examining This Flame Within allows one to ask how revolutionary knowledge is transmitted across generations, how new generational understandings draw on lessons from historical legacies on which they claim to build, and how so-called defeats and victories in the past actually have complicated and multiple legacies for future action."--Michael M. J. Fischer "Public Books" (10/25/2023 12:00:00 AM)