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In their endeavor to make sense of their lives and to bring their past and present into some sort of narrative coherence, Iranian diaspora subjects are faced particularly with one event that changed their lives abruptly and completely: the Iranian Revolution of 1979–81—and, in its wake, the autobiographers’ departures.
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© 2015 Maria D. Wagenknecht
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Wagenknecht, M.D. (2015). Explaining Departure: Narratives of Victimicy. In: Constructing Identity in Iranian-American Self-Narrative. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137473318_2
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