Includes bibliographical references and index.

The personal and the political : Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Persepolis 2 -- Muslims and Jews in contemporary Iran : Dalia Sofer's The Septembers of Shiraz -- The Iranian-American exile and the exiled Iranian : Porochista Khakpour's Sons and other flammable objects -- Savior or villain? : the case of Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran -- Next generation Iranian-American memoir writers : Azadeh Moaveni and Firoozeh Dumas -- From inside the walls of Evin Prison : contemporary Iranian prison narratives -- Censorship in Iran : Shahriar Mandanipour's Censoring an Iranian love story -- Contemporary Iranian and Iranian diasporic poetry -- Alternative means of communication : Iranian blogs.

"This book explores present-day writings of authors who explore oppositional forces, often finding a middle course between the often brutal and demonizing rhetoric from both sides. To combat how the West has falsely generalized and stereotyped Iran, and how Iran has falsely generalized and stereotyped the West, Iranian and diasporic writers deconstruct Western caricatures of the West"--Provided by publisher.