Migrant Families Abroad: The New Generation of Iranian Feminine Diasporic Memoirs

Memoirs support the idea that everyone has stories to state and each story costs to listen. Iran's history after the Revolution of 1979 is full of political events affected new generation of Iranian women memoirists who are usually bestseller writers, outside of their mother country. Memoirs replace their readers with authors, show readers what authors confronting after moving to a foreign country, awaken to another culture, and unclasp the differences. Memoirists do this by loving their background. Iranian memoirists have the habit of seeing their native country through Westernized eyes and the West through Middle-Eastern eyes. Maybe this feature helps them be unique and bestseller so. They show their readers the troubles and challenges they faced in their adopted countries with a new culture. Like other women memoirists, Iranian women memoirists started talking about historical events, customs, details of everyday life and life at home. Most of the Iranian women memoirists, started their writing careers by writing the oral stories of their family members and about how kept their cultural values in the United States during decades, and how respected to the traditional values while becoming a part of a new and modern western societies. Best-selling Iranian memoirists like Azar Nafisi, Firoozeh Dumas, Nahid Rachlin, Sattareh Farman Farmaian and Azadeh Moaveni who born in Iran and lived abroad, acclaim how the older generation of parents were unhappy about what Western customs were doing to their children, and Iranian behavior. What these memoirists want to show is how their migrant families became the victims of cross-cultural situations and the clash of cultures. For a typical Iranian parent, the biggest task is to raise their children and daughters worry more about their parents’ concern about the new society, more than their own distress. Against of much parental control and restrictions for daughters in Iranian migrated families, children feel obliged to obey the rules to keep their family solidarity, which is the common sense of whole Iranian female memoirists abroad.