Mehri Yalfani's stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges they face also reveal the racial, gendered and cultural anxieties of these same individuals who carry with them the biases of their country of origin to the norms of the new land. 'Soleiman's Silence,' 'Felicia,' 'If You Were I,' 'Geranium Family,' and 'Line,' all portray many dimensions of the migrant's strive (or the refusal) to build a home, away from home. The stories that are set in Iran contain the complexity of the social and political context after the revolution that deposed the shah. These stories provide a glimpse of life in post-revolutionary Iran, where the new regime that replaced the old one continues the suppression and prosecution of political activists, only more harshly and mercilessly. Anyone who has lived under a brutal dictatorship can easily identify with the paralyzing fear of Sara and Nazar in the story, 'Books,' the agonizing wait of Zinat for her disappeared son in 'Unexpicable Story,' or the narratives of the ten-year-old child whose activist parents have perished in notorious prisons of the Islamic regime in 'Where is Paradise?'--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- a-ir---
- ISBN
- 1771334258 9781771334280
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.Y25
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2017eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- YDX
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 133 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00239921 (OCoLC)1011500889 (CaOOCEL)457418
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Street of butterflies
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 3
- Title Page 4
- Dedication 6
- Table of Contents 8
- Books 10
- American Chocolate 19
- Inexplicable 27
- The Street of Butterflies 35
- Soleiman’s Silence 48
- Flecia 55
- The French Fiancé 65
- A Suitable Choice 76
- Where Is Paradise? 87
- Coffee Cup Fortune 92
- If You Were I 103
- Snake 110
- Heart’s Language 118
- Geranium Family 125
- Line 133
- Acknowledgements 142
- About the Author 143
