Table of Contents Volume 6, Number 2

Editor-in-Chief: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Literary Diasporas of Iran

Guest Editors: Claudia Yaghoobi & Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

English Verso

Introduction
Claudia Yaghoobi and Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

Poetry as Salve for Persian Exiles
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

Exile and Absence from the True Homeland: The Topos of Exile in Religious Literature
Alan Williams

The Complete Persepolis: Visualizing Exile in a Transnational Narrative
Leila Sadegh Beigi

Between Tehran and Paris: Terre de mirages and Shayegan’s Exilic Ambivalence
Ehsan Sheikholharam

Iranian American Comedic Memoirs: Interrogating Race and Humor in Diasporic Life Writing
Leila Moayeri Pazargadi

Racial Profiling of Iranian Armenians in the United States: Omid Fallahazad’s “Citizen Vartgez”
Claudia Yaghoobi

Persian Reverso

A Reflection of Our Lives over the Four Decades after the Revolution in Literature and a Study of Exilic Literature
Nasim Khaksar

The Blurring of the Boundaries between Reality and Fantasy, Body and Soul, and Home and (Non)Home during the Creative Process of Writing Diaspora
Parvaneh Hosseini Fahraji

Desire, Power, and Agency: Iranian Female Poets Reading Their Poems before the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic
Mahdi Tourage