The Literary Review, Fall 1996

Vol. 39. No. 4

Exiles and Explorers
Iranian Diaspora Literature Since 1980

Ardavan Davaran, Guest Editor
Assitant to the Editor: Garnet Ayers



Contents


Essays

    5  Ardavan Davaran  Iranian Diaspora Literature Since 1980: Contexts and Currents
  14  Ali Ferdowsi   Perpetual Return to a Vanishing Homeland
  42  Peyman Vahabzadeh   Space, Identity, and Bilingual Poetry: Rethinking Iranian "Emigration Poetry"
  59   Majid Roshangar   Migration: A Historical and Universal Experience


Stories

  67   Shahrnoosh Parsipour   Mrs. Farrakhlagha Sadroldivan Golchehreh
  75   Houshang Golshiri   Sketching a Sketch
  83   Ramin Ahmadi   A Simple Guide for Iranian Tourists
  88   Fahimeh Farsaie   The Gaze
  93   Goli Taraghi   My Little Friend
106   Azadeh Naderi   The Rendez-vous
110   M.T. Sharif   The Double's Complaint
127   Mehrnoosh Mazarei   The Old Prostitute of the Ensenada Bar
130   Nahid Rachlin   Still Hoping


Excerpts and Reviews

141   Partow Nooriala   Shahrnoosh Parsipour's Touba and the Meaning of Night: A Synopsis
147   Shahrnoosh Parsipour   From Touba and the Meaning of Night: Excerpts
151   Shahrnoosh Parsipour   Blue Wisdom: An Excerpt
154   Monirou Ravanipour   Excerpt from a Letter
156   A. Avishan   In the Tension Between Anxiety and Desire: A Review of The Winter of 62 by Esmail Fassih
162  Jaleh Pirnazar   A Voice of Exile: A Review of A Stranger Within Me by Shokouh Mirzadegi
172   Thomas Filbin   The Expatriate Memory: Four Iranian Writers in America
178   Nasser Pakdamen   From Of Moullas and Men
179 Caricatures


Poetry

185  Nader Naderpour
188   Manuchehr Astashi
190  Partow Nooriala
195  Ahmad Shamlu
197  Ismail Khoi
199   Majid Nafici
203   Abbas Saffari
206   Padideh Razi
207   H. Fazeli (Naanaam)
208   Ali-Reza Faizabadi
209   Homa Sayyar
210  Roya Hakkakian
212   Parinaz Eleish
214  Ali Zarrin


Contributors

222