calls a "New Orientalist" narrative that paints Iran as a society composed solely of religious oppressors and victims.
huh. it was a very interstign book, and was my first real look at Iran, and that is right. the next encounter i had with fictional Iran was in Persepolis, and I was very much comparing it to RLT and wondering how it was that this Iran of a similar era was so very different. and then I got an Iranian coworker, but she's far younger.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regna
(no subject)
Date: 2009-05-23 03:07 pm (UTC)huh. it was a very interstign book, and was my first real look at Iran, and that is right. the next encounter i had with fictional Iran was in Persepolis, and I was very much comparing it to RLT and wondering how it was that this Iran of a similar era was so very different. and then I got an Iranian coworker, but she's far younger.