Ghanoonparvar, M. R. (Mohammad R.)2011-07-122017-05-112011-07-122017-05-112011-05May 2011http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3158textThis thesis is concerned with the concepts of exile, trauma, and nostalgia and how they all come together to create a sense of culture shock that the subjects of my thesis encountered. Azar Nafisi, Nahid Rachlin, Tara Bahrampour, and Azadeh Moaveni, are all Iranian-American authors, and despite their different life experiences and ages, they all encountered culture shock as it related to male-female relations, Iranian gender norms and issues of sex and sexuality and treatments and views of the female body as it relates to reproduction.application/pdfengTara BahrampourMoaveni, Azadeh, 1976-Azar NafisiNahid RachlinExile in literatureCultural identityIranSex and sexualityGender normsIranian womenIranian American authorsthesis2011-07-122152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3158