HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chador
Lecture 4
Women Without Men - Film Adaptation
Diaspora
●Used to describe population migration and dispersal
(voluntary and involuntary). Now used to refer to virtually
any mass migration. Generally thought in terms of
‘homelessness,’ a sense of trauma and exile, but lately it
has come to be viewed more positively as a kind of
pot-national cosmopolitanism or Creoleness, where the
diasporic subject represents a new, more advanced stage of
politically and culturally heterogeneous citizenry.
●The film maker can be referred to as a Iranian diasporic
subject
The author of the book played the part of the brothel of Zarin,
by her choosing. She probably chose this because she wants to
emphasize the importance of talking about taboos like
prostitution.
Argument:
The film’s foregrounding of the 1953 coup suggests an analogy
between the nation’s liberation from western imperialism and
women’s freedom from subjugation to Iranian patriarchy but
offers no end to the nation’s and women’s struggles
●The film makes the women more exotic seeming
Suicide is actually a form of rejecting faith. She isn’t’
persuaded by the call to prayer. She makes a choice, saying they
are in a Muslim country and the character at the beginning of
the film does not have this belief. There is no way to attain
freedom but to die is a theme that comes from the beginning of
the film, while the novel seems to have more humor. This is part
of the exaggeration of the film from the novel.
Munis chooses death. She goes face down when she jumps off the
building. The chador is the only thing that hits the ground in
the first sequence before she actually hits the ground. She also
Document Summary
Used to describe population migration and dispersal (voluntary and involuntary). Now used to refer to virtually any mass migration. The film maker can be referred to as a iranian diasporic subject. The author of the book played the part of the brothel of zarin, by her choosing. She probably chose this because she wants to emphasize the importance of talking about taboos like prostitution. The film"s foregrounding of the 1953 coup suggests an analogy between the nation"s liberation from western imperialism and women"s freedom from subjugation to iranian patriarchy but offers no end to the nation"s and women"s struggles. The film makes the women more exotic seeming. Suicide is actually a form of rejecting faith. She isn"t" persuaded by the call to prayer. She makes a choice, saying they are in a muslim country and the character at the beginning of the film does not have this belief.
