{"product_id":"this-flame-within-9781478016182","title":"This Flame Within","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThis Flame Within\u003c\/i\u003e 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”—the embodied force of affect generated by experiences of repression and resistance—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 Worl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This wonderful book examines the history of the left wing of the Iranian diaspora in the U.S., developing a theory of revolutionary affect in the process. Moradian is a wonderful writer and interviewer who combines analytic sophistication with an unusual kind of political and intellectual generosity.\" -- Lisa Duggan * Commie Pinko Queer newsletter *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThis Flame Within\u003c\/i\u003e takes seriously the power, pleasure, and melancholy of social movements. It would work especially well in upper-level undergraduate and graduate seminars. Moradian’s MFA in creative nonfiction and many years of organizing work in progressive feminist of color and anti-war social movements help her construct a beautifully written academic book that is also a generous and tender recording of social history.\" -- Neda Maghbouleh * Gender and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\"A useful contribution to the many legacies of the Iranian revolution, and not just of the secular masculine left. Examining \u003ci\u003eThis Flame Within\u003c\/i\u003e allows one to ask how revolutionary knowledge is transmitted across generations, how new generational understandings draw on lessons from historical legacies on which they claim to build, and how so-called defeats and victories in the past actually have complicated and multiple legacies for future action.\" -- Michael M. J. Fischer * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Before We Were “Terrorists”  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Revolutionary Affects and the Archive of Memory  33\u003cbr\u003e 2. Revolt in the Metropole  69\u003cbr\u003e 3. Making the Most of an American Education  95\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Feeling and Practice of Solidarity  128\u003cbr\u003e 5. Political Cultures of Revolutionary Belonging  176\u003cbr\u003e 6. Intersectional Anti-Imperialism: Alternative Genealogies of Revolution and Diaspora  215\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Revolutionary Affects and the Remaking of Diaspora  247\u003cbr\u003e Notes  275\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  301\u003cbr\u003e Index  323\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409001193815,"sku":"9781478016182","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478016182.jpg?v=1730505042","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/this-flame-within-9781478016182","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}