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Journal Article
The Tear Jar
2009
Overview
Like the Iranian Jewish women whose writings I analyze here, the past of thirty years ago is another country for me. That country is Iran. We look backwards to that past Iran, but also sideways to the Iran and the United States of today (if the past is another country it is of course not the case, as Clifford Geertz reminds us, that another country is the past). What follows is written from the shared experience of living in pre-revolutionary Iran, and from the shared experience of writing about a remembered Iran.
