Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora, Claudia Yaghoobi (hardcover)

Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora focuses on works produced by Iranian Armenians that respond to two main turning points: the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, which resulted in the mass migration of Armenians from Iran to the United States. The book studies how diasporic Iranian Armenian authors and artists negotiate their identities as a minoritized population within a liminal space that includes religious, ethnic, national, racial, cultural, gender, and sexual factors.

By studying a variety of literary works, culture, music, and film in Persian, Armenian, and English, Claudia Yaghoobi argues that liminal state of fluidity helps them to move beyond national boundaries to transnationalism, while simultaneously displaying a collective Armenian identity characterized by flexibility, adaptation, and continuity as a result of both uprooting and genocide that continues to this day.