Manijeh Mannani is chair of the Centre forHumanities and associate professor of English and comparativeliterature at Athabasca University, as well as adjunct professor ofcomparative literature at the University of Alberta. She specializes inthe poetry of Rumi and is the author of Divine Deviants: The Dialecticsof Devotion in the Poetry of Donne and Rumi. She is also the co-editorof Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts andCulture. Veronica Thompson is associate professor of Englishand dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at AthabascaUniversity. Her research interests include Canadian and Australianliteratures, postcolonial literatures and theories, and women'sliterature and feminist theory. She is currently researchingrepresentations of terrorism in postcolonial literature. She is alsothe co-editor of Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on CanadianArts and Culture.

• Familiar and Foreign: An Introduction • Manijeh Mannani andVeronica Thompson 31 The Development of the Artistic Female Self in the Poetry ofForugh Farrokhzad • Safaneh Mohaghegh Neyshabouri 172 Overcoming Gender: The Impact of the Persian Language on IranianWomen's Confessional Literature • Farideh Dayanim Goldin 313 Autobiomythography and Self-Aggrandizement in Iranian DiasporicLife-Writing: Fatemeh Keshavarz and Azar Nafisi • Manijeh Mannani 614 Graphic Memories: Dialogues with Self and Other in MarjaneSatrapi's Persepolis and Persepolis 2 • Mostafa Abedinifard835 Mr. and Mrs. F and the Woman: Personal Identities in ZoyaPirzad's Like All the Afternoons • Madeleine Voegeli 1116 Anxious Men: Sexuality and Systems of Disavowal in ContemporaryIranian Literature • Blake Atwood 1297 Reading the Exile's Body: Deafness and Diaspora in KaderAbdolah's My Father's Notebook • Babak Elahi 1498 Persian Literature of Exile in France: Goli Taraqqi's ShortStories • Laetitia Nanquette 1739 Farang Represented: The Construction of Self-Space in GoliTaraqqi's Fiction • Goulia Ghardashkhani 18910 Film as Alternative History: The Aesthetics of Bahram Beizai• Khatereh Sheibani 21111 Technologies of Memory, Identity, and Oblivion in Persepolis(2007) and Waltz with Bashir (2008) • William Anselmi and SheenaWilson 233Contributors 261

Manijeh Mannani is chair of the Centre forHumanities and associate professor of English and comparativeliterature at Athabasca University, as well as adjunct professor ofcomparative literature at the University of Alberta. She specializes inthe poetry of Rumi and is the author of Divine Deviants: The Dialecticsof Devotion in the Poetry of Donne and Rumi. She is also the co-editorof Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts andCulture. Veronica Thompson is associate professor of Englishand dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at AthabascaUniversity. Her research interests include Canadian and Australianliteratures, postcolonial literatures and theories, and women'sliterature and feminist theory. She is currently researchingrepresentations of terrorism in postcolonial literature. She is alsothe co-editor of Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on CanadianArts and Culture.

• Familiar and Foreign: An Introduction • Manijeh Mannani andVeronica Thompson 31 The Development of the Artistic Female Self in the Poetry ofForugh Farrokhzad • Safaneh Mohaghegh Neyshabouri 172 Overcoming Gender: The Impact of the Persian Language on IranianWomen's Confessional Literature • Farideh Dayanim Goldin 313 Autobiomythography and Self-Aggrandizement in Iranian DiasporicLife-Writing: Fatemeh Keshavarz and Azar Nafisi • Manijeh Mannani 614 Graphic Memories: Dialogues with Self and Other in MarjaneSatrapi's Persepolis and Persepolis 2 • Mostafa Abedinifard835 Mr. and Mrs. F and the Woman: Personal Identities in ZoyaPirzad's Like All the Afternoons • Madeleine Voegeli 1116 Anxious Men: Sexuality and Systems of Disavowal in ContemporaryIranian Literature • Blake Atwood 1297 Reading the Exile's Body: Deafness and Diaspora in KaderAbdolah's My Father's Notebook • Babak Elahi 1498 Persian Literature of Exile in France: Goli Taraqqi's ShortStories • Laetitia Nanquette 1739 Farang Represented: The Construction of Self-Space in GoliTaraqqi's Fiction • Goulia Ghardashkhani 18910 Film as Alternative History: The Aesthetics of Bahram Beizai• Khatereh Sheibani 21111 Technologies of Memory, Identity, and Oblivion in Persepolis(2007) and Waltz with Bashir (2008) • William Anselmi and SheenaWilson 233Contributors 261

Manijeh Mannani is chair of the Centre forHumanities and associate professor of English and comparativeliterature at Athabasca University, as well as adjunct professor ofcomparative literature at the University of Alberta. She specializes inthe poetry of Rumi and is the author of Divine Deviants: The Dialecticsof Devotion in the Poetry of Donne and Rumi. She is also the co-editorof Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on Canadian Arts andCulture. Veronica Thompson is associate professor of Englishand dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at AthabascaUniversity. Her research interests include Canadian and Australianliteratures, postcolonial literatures and theories, and women'sliterature and feminist theory. She is currently researchingrepresentations of terrorism in postcolonial literature. She is alsothe co-editor of Selves and Subjectivities: Reflections on CanadianArts and Culture.

• Familiar and Foreign: An Introduction • Manijeh Mannani andVeronica Thompson 31 The Development of the Artistic Female Self in the Poetry ofForugh Farrokhzad • Safaneh Mohaghegh Neyshabouri 172 Overcoming Gender: The Impact of the Persian Language on IranianWomen's Confessional Literature • Farideh Dayanim Goldin 313 Autobiomythography and Self-Aggrandizement in Iranian DiasporicLife-Writing: Fatemeh Keshavarz and Azar Nafisi • Manijeh Mannani 614 Graphic Memories: Dialogues with Self and Other in MarjaneSatrapi's Persepolis and Persepolis 2 • Mostafa Abedinifard835 Mr. and Mrs. F and the Woman: Personal Identities in ZoyaPirzad's Like All the Afternoons • Madeleine Voegeli 1116 Anxious Men: Sexuality and Systems of Disavowal in ContemporaryIranian Literature • Blake Atwood 1297 Reading the Exile's Body: Deafness and Diaspora in KaderAbdolah's My Father's Notebook • Babak Elahi 1498 Persian Literature of Exile in France: Goli Taraqqi's ShortStories • Laetitia Nanquette 1739 Farang Represented: The Construction of Self-Space in GoliTaraqqi's Fiction • Goulia Ghardashkhani 18910 Film as Alternative History: The Aesthetics of Bahram Beizai• Khatereh Sheibani 21111 Technologies of Memory, Identity, and Oblivion in Persepolis(2007) and Waltz with Bashir (2008) • William Anselmi and SheenaWilson 233Contributors 261