Laetitia Nanquette
Biographic Data
| ID | 642393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laetitia Nanquette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laetitia |
| FAMILY NAME | Nanquette |
| SIGNATURE | NANQUETTE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4770-7962 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Publishing and the State: Print Culture, Censorship and Authoritarianism in Iran, 1950-2020
In this article, I analyse the role of the state in the publishing industry in Iran over the past 70 years, spanning two political regimes, to highlight the centrality of publishing in understanding the functioning of culture in Iranian society and politics. There is a continuity in Iran’s political functioning, despite the differences between the Pahlavi monarchy and the Islamic Republic: in both cases, these are largely authoritarian regimes, w…
Pamela Karimi. Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. A Social History of Modern Tehran. Space, Power, and the City
The book studies the changes of the city of Tehran between the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, arguing that this moment showed the advent of a new spatial discourse. The author delves into the processes that took place in those years: a process of secularisation of spatiality, with squares and streets taking the place of mosques as political spaces; a gender diversification, with women being visible in this new spatiality, interestingly…
Janet Afary, Kamran Afary. Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster 1906-1911
This book studies the magazine in Azerbaijani Turkish Molla Nasreddin and focuses on its most productive publication years. The satirical magazine was published in different cities of the South Caucasus over a period of 27 years, with its first years in Tiflis (1906-11) being the most fruitful. The publication supported an anti-colonial discourse of reform and progress, and was read across the Muslim world. It satirized the local elite, colonial …
Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh. Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War
Although there are thousands of documents written on the war in Persian, largely in the field of Sacred Defence (Defah moqadas), very few of these concern women. In this book, Farzaneh narrates the story of their participation to the war, drawing upon memoirs, wills, interviews, print media coverage, and oral histories. Women participated not only at home by looking after the household, but also on the front, in many capacities. Farzaneh argues t…
Fatemeh Shams. A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-Option under the Islamic Republic
In this ground-breaking monograph, Shams studies the role of poetry for the government of the Islamic republic by focusing on ten key official poets of the revolution. She analyses the evolving roles they played in instituting poetry as the most important cultural product for the post-revolutionary government. Shams also endeavours to study literary institutions like the Howzeh-ye Honari, as well as events like the poetry nights organised by Kham…
Omid Azadibougar. World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity
This book stems from the author’s exploration of the encounter between Iran and modernity. This preoccupation takes shape here through the examination of Sadegh Hedayat’s texts in their variety and complexity. Azadibougar analyses Hedayat’s poetics of modernity and his response to his own peripheral condition in world literature. The book takes a strong stance against the tragic-romantic approach and the focus on Hedayat’s life of many scholarly …
Farzaneh Hemmasi. Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music
This book explores the production of pop music in Tehrangeles, a name given to Los Angeles by the Iranian diaspora, through its impact on Iranian identity. This form of pop music has been circulating widely abroad and in Iran for decades, and it is particularly relevant when considering cultural exchanges between Iran and its diaspora. Hemmasi explores how music producers have positioned themselves to reflect on the question of the Iranian nation…
Narges Bajoghli. Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
This book is an ethnographic study of the media producers of the Iranian paramilitary organizations. It investigates the strategies they have developed to court Iranian youth. Over ten years, the author has interviewed the cultural producers of the regime and did long-term participant-observation in regime media studios. She draws the portrait of several of these men and also takes us into the rooms where decisions are made about which media to c…
Michelle Langford. Allegory in Iranian cinema: The aesthetics of poetry and resistance
Langford studies the long tradition of allegorical expression in Persian culture and demonstrates that Iranian filmmakers who use it are not only motivated by the constraints of censorship, contrary to what has often been argued: allegory is an integral part of their aesthetics. Through powerful readings of films by iconic directors from both the pre and post-revolution period, Langford shows that allegory is a tool for their expression, that som…
The Global Circulation of an Iranian Bestseller
Memoirs by Iranian women in the diaspora have long been the standard reading for western readers interested in Iran. However, The Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee, a popular novel newly translated into English and many other European languages, interpolates both the orientalist discourse memoirs offer and the Iranian memoirs industry. The translation of this Iranian text with a feminist Islamic discourse inserts the book into a global context tha…
Orientalism Versus Occidentalism: Literary and Cultural Imaging between France and Iran since the Islamic Revolution
At a time when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear programme, and whilst France is portrayed in the Iranian media as a decadent and imperialist country, this book examines the ways in which these representations and stereotypes are shared, nuanced, or overcome beyond the sphere of the fourth estate. Here, Laetitia Nanquette examines the functions, processes and mechanisms of stereotyping and imaginin…
An Iranian Woman's Memoir on the Iran–Iraq War: The Production and Reception of Da
Da (Mother): Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseini, as Recorded by Seyyedeh A‘zam Hoseini was published by Sureh-ye Mehr, the official publisher of the Artistic Center of the Islamic Development Organization, in 2008. According to the publishers, it became the biggest seller in the shortest period in Iranian publishing history. This article analyzes the conditions of production, distribution and reception of that work, and compares it to the canon of…
Le discours sur l'Occident chez les intellectuels iraniens de la modernité
The Persian Novel in French: A Hybrid Genre
Writers of Iranian origin who compose in French have published a fair number of novels in France since the beginning of the 1990s. This article analyzes the genre specificity of novels by Franco-Iranian authors and the challenges that the inevitable influence of the French novelistic tradition present to the authors of this Iranian diaspora. I put the Persian novel in French into the context of the contemporary Persian literary system and then gi…
French New Orientalist Narratives from the “Natives”: Reading More Than Chahdortt Djavann in Paris
This article analyzes a trend in the prose texts of French writers of Iranian origin, based on close readings of Chahdortt Djavann, Comment peut-on être français? (How Can One Be French? 2006), and Ladane Azernour, Les larmes de l'exil: L'Iran confisqué (The Tears of Exile: Iran Confiscated, 2004). The article argues that new orientalism in France comes from the “natives” only, and can thus be considered as “self-orientalism” according to Edward …
An Iranian Woman's Memoir on the Iran–Iraq War: The Production and Reception of Da
Da (Mother): Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseini, as Recorded by Seyyedeh A‘zam Hoseini was published by Sureh-ye Mehr, the official publisher of the Artistic Center of the Islamic Development Organization, in 2008. According to the publishers, it became the biggest seller in the shortest period in Iranian publishing history. This article analyzes the conditions of production, distribution and reception of that work, and compares it to the canon of…
Publishing and the State: Print Culture, Censorship and Authoritarianism in Iran, 1950-2020
In this article, I analyse the role of the state in the publishing industry in Iran over the past 70 years, spanning two political regimes, to highlight the centrality of publishing in understanding the functioning of culture in Iranian society and politics. There is a continuity in Iran’s political functioning, despite the differences between the Pahlavi monarchy and the Islamic Republic: in both cases, these are largely authoritarian regimes, w…
French New Orientalist Narratives from the “Natives”: Reading More Than Chahdortt Djavann in Paris
This article analyzes a trend in the prose texts of French writers of Iranian origin, based on close readings of Chahdortt Djavann, Comment peut-on être français? (How Can One Be French? 2006), and Ladane Azernour, Les larmes de l'exil: L'Iran confisqué (The Tears of Exile: Iran Confiscated, 2004). The article argues that new orientalism in France comes from the “natives” only, and can thus be considered as “self-orientalism” according to Edward …
French New Orientalist Narratives from the “Natives”: Reading More Than Chahdortt Djavann in Paris
This article analyzes a trend in the prose texts of French writers of Iranian origin, based on close readings of Chahdortt Djavann, Comment peut-on être français? (How Can One Be French? 2006), and Ladane Azernour, Les larmes de l'exil: L'Iran confisqué (The Tears of Exile: Iran Confiscated, 2004). The article argues that new orientalism in France comes from the “natives” only, and can thus be considered as “self-orientalism” according to Edward …
Le discours sur l'Occident chez les intellectuels iraniens de la modernité
The Persian Novel in French: A Hybrid Genre
Writers of Iranian origin who compose in French have published a fair number of novels in France since the beginning of the 1990s. This article analyzes the genre specificity of novels by Franco-Iranian authors and the challenges that the inevitable influence of the French novelistic tradition present to the authors of this Iranian diaspora. I put the Persian novel in French into the context of the contemporary Persian literary system and then gi…
Orientalism Versus Occidentalism: Literary and Cultural Imaging between France and Iran since the Islamic Revolution
At a time when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear programme, and whilst France is portrayed in the Iranian media as a decadent and imperialist country, this book examines the ways in which these representations and stereotypes are shared, nuanced, or overcome beyond the sphere of the fourth estate. Here, Laetitia Nanquette examines the functions, processes and mechanisms of stereotyping and imaginin…
An Iranian Woman's Memoir on the Iran–Iraq War: The Production and Reception of Da
Da (Mother): Memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Hoseini, as Recorded by Seyyedeh A‘zam Hoseini was published by Sureh-ye Mehr, the official publisher of the Artistic Center of the Islamic Development Organization, in 2008. According to the publishers, it became the biggest seller in the shortest period in Iranian publishing history. This article analyzes the conditions of production, distribution and reception of that work, and compares it to the canon of…
The Global Circulation of an Iranian Bestseller
Memoirs by Iranian women in the diaspora have long been the standard reading for western readers interested in Iran. However, The Book of Fate by Parinoush Saniee, a popular novel newly translated into English and many other European languages, interpolates both the orientalist discourse memoirs offer and the Iranian memoirs industry. The translation of this Iranian text with a feminist Islamic discourse inserts the book into a global context tha…
Omid Azadibougar. World Literature and Hedayat’s Poetics of Modernity
This book stems from the author’s exploration of the encounter between Iran and modernity. This preoccupation takes shape here through the examination of Sadegh Hedayat’s texts in their variety and complexity. Azadibougar analyses Hedayat’s poetics of modernity and his response to his own peripheral condition in world literature. The book takes a strong stance against the tragic-romantic approach and the focus on Hedayat’s life of many scholarly …
Farzaneh Hemmasi. Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music
This book explores the production of pop music in Tehrangeles, a name given to Los Angeles by the Iranian diaspora, through its impact on Iranian identity. This form of pop music has been circulating widely abroad and in Iran for decades, and it is particularly relevant when considering cultural exchanges between Iran and its diaspora. Hemmasi explores how music producers have positioned themselves to reflect on the question of the Iranian nation…
Narges Bajoghli. Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic
This book is an ethnographic study of the media producers of the Iranian paramilitary organizations. It investigates the strategies they have developed to court Iranian youth. Over ten years, the author has interviewed the cultural producers of the regime and did long-term participant-observation in regime media studios. She draws the portrait of several of these men and also takes us into the rooms where decisions are made about which media to c…
Michelle Langford. Allegory in Iranian cinema: The aesthetics of poetry and resistance
Langford studies the long tradition of allegorical expression in Persian culture and demonstrates that Iranian filmmakers who use it are not only motivated by the constraints of censorship, contrary to what has often been argued: allegory is an integral part of their aesthetics. Through powerful readings of films by iconic directors from both the pre and post-revolution period, Langford shows that allegory is a tool for their expression, that som…
Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh. Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War
Although there are thousands of documents written on the war in Persian, largely in the field of Sacred Defence (Defah moqadas), very few of these concern women. In this book, Farzaneh narrates the story of their participation to the war, drawing upon memoirs, wills, interviews, print media coverage, and oral histories. Women participated not only at home by looking after the household, but also on the front, in many capacities. Farzaneh argues t…
Fatemeh Shams. A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-Option under the Islamic Republic
In this ground-breaking monograph, Shams studies the role of poetry for the government of the Islamic republic by focusing on ten key official poets of the revolution. She analyses the evolving roles they played in instituting poetry as the most important cultural product for the post-revolutionary government. Shams also endeavours to study literary institutions like the Howzeh-ye Honari, as well as events like the poetry nights organised by Kham…
Pamela Karimi. Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran
Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi. A Social History of Modern Tehran. Space, Power, and the City
The book studies the changes of the city of Tehran between the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, arguing that this moment showed the advent of a new spatial discourse. The author delves into the processes that took place in those years: a process of secularisation of spatiality, with squares and streets taking the place of mosques as political spaces; a gender diversification, with women being visible in this new spatiality, interestingly…
Janet Afary, Kamran Afary. Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster 1906-1911
This book studies the magazine in Azerbaijani Turkish Molla Nasreddin and focuses on its most productive publication years. The satirical magazine was published in different cities of the South Caucasus over a period of 27 years, with its first years in Tiflis (1906-11) being the most fruitful. The publication supported an anti-colonial discourse of reform and progress, and was read across the Muslim world. It satirized the local elite, colonial …
Publishing and the State: Print Culture, Censorship and Authoritarianism in Iran, 1950-2020
In this article, I analyse the role of the state in the publishing industry in Iran over the past 70 years, spanning two political regimes, to highlight the centrality of publishing in understanding the functioning of culture in Iranian society and politics. There is a continuity in Iran’s political functioning, despite the differences between the Pahlavi monarchy and the Islamic Republic: in both cases, these are largely authoritarian regimes, w…
Art (13 works) · Islamic Studies and History (13 works) · Literature (9 works) · History (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Islam (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Narrative (4 works)