Where Is “Home”? Displacement and Exile in Persian Literary Tradition
Prof. Fatemeh Shams, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
November 14, 2017
6:00PM
World Cafe Live Upstairs
3025 Walnut Street
Although terms such as “displacement” and “exile” have been more recurrent in the wake of the ongoing refugee crisis across the world, such concepts have not been addressed in much detail in the literature produced by creative writers from the countries that have been subjected to the Muslim ban, or by victims of the refugee crisis. In this talk, Shams will explore various meanings and representations of “exile” and “home” in the works of modern Iranian poets in an attempt to understand the exile identity as a somewhat abstract and universal phenomenon, rather than one which is merely defined by geographical terms and limits.
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