Persianate selves : memories of place and origin before nationalism
Kia, Mana,
Persianate selves : memories of place and origin before nationalism - California Stanford University Press 2020 - xxii, 312 pages :
"Persianate Selves challenges accepted notions of what it meant to be Persian in the eighteenth century. Drawing on commemorative texts, this book reveals that to be Persian was not necessarily to be Iranian. Persians hailed from a variety of places across Central, South, and West Asia, and their sense of self was not tied to modern ideas of nationalism, religion, or race. Mana Kia explores the common education and cultural logic that connected Persians, before the concept of the nation, describing how place, origin, and memory created a sense of self unbounded by the limits of colonial modernity"--
9781503611955
Iranians
Nationalism
305.891 / KIA
Persianate selves : memories of place and origin before nationalism - California Stanford University Press 2020 - xxii, 312 pages :
"Persianate Selves challenges accepted notions of what it meant to be Persian in the eighteenth century. Drawing on commemorative texts, this book reveals that to be Persian was not necessarily to be Iranian. Persians hailed from a variety of places across Central, South, and West Asia, and their sense of self was not tied to modern ideas of nationalism, religion, or race. Mana Kia explores the common education and cultural logic that connected Persians, before the concept of the nation, describing how place, origin, and memory created a sense of self unbounded by the limits of colonial modernity"--
9781503611955
Iranians
Nationalism
305.891 / KIA