[van-announce] Writing Rupture: Iranian Emigration Literature

[West Coast Line]

"Writing Rupture: Iranian Emigration Literature"
(West Coast Line  #36/3)

Saturday April 12, 2003
8:00 pm
Kootenay School of Writing
#201-505 Hamilton St., Vancouver BC
Pender and Hamilton)
Free

Join guest editor Peyman Vahabzadeh for a talk and reading to launch this
important new issue of West Coast Line, featuring work from exiled Iranian
writers living in Canada, the US, and other parts of the diaspora.

The issue includes new poetry and prose in English translation from Farsi,
critical/poetics essays, and a photo-essay on Sahra Karimi, an exiled
Iranian actor and activist. Other writers include Yadollah Royai, Azadeh
Farahmand, Behnam Bavandpour Faramarz Soleimani, Verya Mazhar, , Hossein
Fazeli, Ali Reza Hosseini, Zara Houshmand , Chuka Chakad, Hossein Nushazar,
Nilofar Shidmehr, Mehroosh Mazarei, Khosrow Davami, Ali Negahban, and
Shahla Sepehr Bebe.

Peyman Vahabzadeh (1961, Tehran) will posthumously write his bio.  A
Vancouverite, he has served his time living as a young revolutionary,
activist, worker, wartime soldier, refugee, and university student, his
son's proven father, his parent's unproven son, his wife's dubious husband,
and other important things he fails to remember.  He enjoys teaching  hope
before eclipsing into despair and likes to hike, live in Italy and find a
cure for his terminal accent. His unsuccessful attempts at not publishing
have resulted in a number of unfortunate books, essays, poems, short
stories, critics, and reviews in Persian, English and German (including,
recently, Articulated Experiences: Toward a Radical Phenomenology of
Contemporary Social Movements [SUNY Press, 2003]) -- works that, he prays,
will soon be forgotten.

An excerpt from "Thinking with an Accent":

"Thinking with an accent disturbs the dominant discourse by changing its
fundamental terms.  It always brings here something foreign from there, and
it leaves what is foreign here in an improper place through speaking with
an accent, just before making yet another departure.  As such, thinking
with an accent transgresses the boundaries that perpetuate the illusion of
dwelling in a permanent place called home and shows the unhomely character
of the  world."


Call 604.291.4287 for information.
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