This Flame Within
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This Flame Within

Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States

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This Flame Within

Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States

About this book

In This Flame Within Manijeh Moradian revises conventional histories of Iranian migration to the United States as a post-1979 phenomenon characterized by the flight of pro-Shah Iranians from the Islamic Republic and recounts the experiences of Iranian foreign students who joined a global movement against US imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on archival evidence and in-depth interviews with members of the Iranian Students Association, Moradian traces what she calls "revolutionary affects"ā€”the embodied force of affect generated by experiences of repression and resistanceā€”from encounters with empire and dictatorship in Iran to joint organizing with other student activists in the United States. Moradian theorizes "affects of solidarity" that facilitated Iranian student participation in a wide range of antiracist and anticolonial movements and analyzes gendered manifestations of revolutionary affects within the emergence of Third World feminism. Arguing for a transnational feminist interpretation of the Iranian Student Association's legacy, Moradian demonstrates how the recognition of multiple sources of oppression in the West and in Iran can reorient Iranian diasporic politics today.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Abbreviations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction. Before We Were ā€œTerroristsā€
  6. 1. Revolutionary Affects and the Archive of Memory
  7. 2. Revolt in the Metropole
  8. 3. Making the Most of an American Education
  9. 4. The Feeling and Practice of Solidarity
  10. 5. Political Cultures of Revolutionary Belonging
  11. 6. Intersectional Anti-Imperialism. Alternative Genealogies of Revolution and Diaspora
  12. Conclusion. Revolutionary Affects and the Remaking of Diaspora
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index