HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Stephen Kinzer, Comparative Literature, Tehran Conference

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Jessica Mangold
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Professor Rahimieh
Week 7 Lecture 1
5/14/18
Iran’s Imperial Past
Outline of Lecture
- What is comparative literature?
- How does a comparative approach help us understand Iran’s relationship to the theme of
Empire and its Ruins?
- How does Iran’s imperial history shed light of Iran’s place in the world today?
What is comparative literature?
- promotes study of intercultural relations that cross national boundaries, multicultural
relations within a particular society + interactions between literature + other forms of
human activity
- arts, sciences, philosophy, + cultural artifacts of all kinds
Relations between Iran and the US
- comparative literature can help to understand US + Iran relationship
- looks at how Iran sees the US + how cultures have been in contact
- can look at politics (image of nations shaking hands)
- US pulled out of Iran Nuclear Deal
- deal was reached in 2015 -> remarkable political move
Stephen Kinzer’s “Inside Iran’s Fury
- presents overview of history of Iran + relations w/US
- sources of animosity between the two nations
- image used at the beginning:
- makes Iranians look angry + hostile
- see Iranians as furious all the time if do not see other images/representations
- Why does Stephen Kinzer emphasize perception?
- “This chasm of perception reflects the enormous gap in the way Americans and
Iranians viewed-and continue to view- one another. It will be hard for them to
reconcile their differences unless they begin seeing the world through each other’s
eyes.”
- look at the image presented -> perception that Iranians are furious
- Orientalist logic -> people are different from us -> acting like a hostile mob
Iran’s Self-Perception Rooted in History
- discovery of ruins of an ancient Persian Empire -> crucial in formation of Iran’s self-
image
- how ruins were talked about -> became basis of self-construction
- self-image made up of multiple empires (modern + ancient)
- Persian Empire, 500 BCE
- expansive empire that covered vast part of Middle East
- Persepolis = where ruins were found
- was called Persia
Why is it called the Persian Empire? Where is Persia?
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