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Frontier Fictions (ebook)

Autor:Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet;
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ISBN: EB9781400865079
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In Frontier Fictions, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet looks at the efforts of Iranians to defend, if not expand, their borders in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and explores how their conceptions of national geography influenced cultural and political change. The "frontier fictions," or the ways in which the Iranians viewed their often fluctuating borders and the conflicts surrounding them, played a dominant role in defining the nation. On these borderlands, new ideas of citizenship and nationality were unleashed, refining older ideas of ethnicity.

Kashani-Sabet maintains that land-based conceptions of countries existed before the advent of the modern nation-state. Her focus on geography enables her to explore and document fully a wide range of aspects of modern citizenship in Iran, including love of homeland, the hegemony of the Persian language, and widespread interest in archaeology, travel, and map-making. While many historians have focused on the concept of the "imagined community" in their explanations of the rise of nationalism, Kashani-Sabet is able to complement this perspective with a very tangible explanation of what connects people to a specific place. Her approach is intended to enrich our understanding not only of Iranian nationalism, but also of nationalism everywhere.

"Frontier Fictions is an outstanding work of historical interpretation. . . . A book that lays bare the making of Iranian identity and physical and cultural borders. A work of real subtlety and elegance."--Fouad Ajami, Middle East Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University0Illustrations Acknowledgments Chronology of Major Events Glossary Introduction. Frontier Fictions 3 1 A Manifest Destiny Diverted, 1804-1896 15 2 Limning the Landscape: Geographical Depictions of the Homeland, 1850s-1896 47 3 From Riches to Ruins: The Political Economy of Frontiers, 1897-1906 75 4 Political Parables: Iran's Frontier Crucible, 1906-1914 101 5 Coercing Camaraderie: The War, the Military, and the Myth of Riza Khan, 1914-1926 144 6 Parenting Little Patriots: Domesticating the Homeland, 1921-1926 180 Conclusion. What's in a Name? From Persia to Iran, 1926-1946 216 Notes 227 Bibliography 285 Index 301

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