Spanish Women Writing Iran

Description

Women who travel transgress traditionally feminized geographies. Women who write assert their authority to speak and define their experiences and environments. Women who write about traveling take this act of creative agency into the space of intercultural encounter and reflections on homelands and other lands. A comparative study of books about Iran by contemporary twenty-first century Spanish writers Ana Briongos, Patricia Almarcegui and Beatriz Pitarch will explore travel and writing as acts that create transnational dialogues around justice and inequality in intersections of gender, culture and space through cultural geographies of femininity. Outside its region, Iran has been hyper-mythologized as a site of gendered oppression, mobilizing pernicious stereotypes of Muslim women and their lives. In that context, taking Iran as a destination and an object requires writers to engage with, and communicate to readers, the politics of gender and performances of gendered identity in relation to Spain as a culture of origin, legacies of European Orientalism, and modes of narrating cultural difference.

Period	Jul 2022
Event title	Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia Conference: Just Futures: Exploring Pathways of Futurity and Justice
Event type	Conference
Degree of Recognition	National