ABSTRACT
Employing literature as a medium not only to historicize social events but also to criticize the circumstances, Simin Daneshvar, Shahriar Mandanipour, and Don DeLillo, as sociocultural critics, criticize and deconstruct the epic and the myth in US–Iranian relations through their historia-political narration. As such, Daneshvar, Mandanipour, and DeLillo present how the literary game of motions in thematic narration, namely historia-political, results in virtual/imaginative mobilities. While Daneshvar and Mandanipour reflect profoundly on the creation and downfall of the Constitutional as well as the Islamic Revolution in terms of their causes and effects, DeLillo thoroughly narrates about the Shah’s reign, and how American miscalculations changed a friend to a foe. In sum, this chapter demonstrates, through the close readings of selected works, that the historia-political narratives of factual events uncover the complexities of the relationships between the Iranian and American cultures and societies.
