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Delshad, Parisa
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2023-12-19
Delshad, Parisa. "Diasporic Roots/Circular Routes: Kamin Mohammadi’s Search for Home in The Cypress Tree; A Love Letter to Iran (2011)." Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies 68 (2023): 165-183.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10366/169414
10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20237383
This paper explores Kamin Mohammadi’s position regarding the discourses of
national belonging through the scrutiny of her circular route from England to
Iran. Reflecting the interrelation between identity, home and the modern
nation-state, The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran (2011) recounts the story
of Mohammadi’s journey back to Iran in search of a singular self. It recounts
her story of growing up in Iran and England and the reason behind her
displacement from both of these countries in 1979 and 1997. Indebted to
Stuart Hall’s take on the diaspora, Gaston Bachelard’s reading of home and
Homi Bhabha’s notion of hybridity, this paper rejects the synonymy between
home and home country as well as exclusive belonging intrinsic to nationalism.
The aim of this paper is to read Mohammadi’s ultimate choice to settle down in
England as a challenge to the homogenizing forces of nationalism that inhibited
her sense of belonging to Britain and drew her toward Iran. As she embraces a
hybrid identity by telling her circular story, beginning and ending in London,
her literary contribution is a way to dismantle the link between belonging and
the nation-state, as well as a challenge to the alleged homogeneity of the nation-
states to which she belongs.
Atribución 4.0 Internacional
The Cypress Tree
Identity
Diaspora
Nationalism
Home
Diasporic Roots/Circular Routes:
Kamin Mohammadi’s Search for Home in The Cypress Tree; A Love Letter to Iran (2011)
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