A Tale Worth ToldNeoliberal Feminism and Conditional Hospitality in Masih Alinejad's The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran (2018)

  1. Delshad, Parisa
Revista:
Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat

ISSN: 1136-5781

Any de publicació: 2023

Títol de l'exemplar: Rethinking Hospitality through the Culture, Literature, and Thought of Contemporary US Women of Color

Número: 29

Pàgines: 117-135

Tipus: Article

DOI: 10.1344/LECTORA2023.29.7 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resum

Aquest article explora la conceptualització de la llibertat a les memòries de la periodista i activista digital iraniana-estatunidenca Masih Alinejad, tot examinant The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran (2018) respecte a l’activisme d’Alineejad en el moviment "Dona, Vida, Llibertat" a l’Iran. S’utilitza un marc crític extret de les crítiques feministes del feminisme neoliberal i l’hospitalitat de Derrida per centrar-se en com Alinejad repeteix les narratives de la minoria model i l’excepcionalisme nord-americà. Aquestes narratives neoliberals tenen el potencial de convertir tant l’Iran com els Estats Units en llocs inhòspits per a les dones. L’article conclou que una lectura interseccional de l’enfocament neoliberal d’Alineejad sobre les experiències de les dones tant als Estats Units com a l’Iran demostra que no coincideix amb les reivindicacions del moviment "Dona, Vida, Llibertat".

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