Iranian women in American exile dominate the Muslim memoir genre
Evidence
Iran is a particularly fruitful source of memoirs by women, although many are written by women now in exile in America. Among recent examples are Azadeh Moaveni, Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran (New York: PublicAffairs, 2005), and Tara Bahrampour, To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). These books join older examples such as Shusha Guppy, The Blindfold Horse: Memories of a Persian Childhood (London: William Heinemann, 1988). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 723
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- SHARE: For anyone tracking Iranian exile memoir as a genre cluster — the Moaveni/Bahrampour/Guppy lineage is a specific catalog most readers won’t have.