Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Exile Discourse; 2. Iranian Exilic Popular Culture; 3. Structure and Political Economy of Exilic Television; 4. The Exilic Television Genre and Its Textual Politics and Signifying Practices; 5. Fetishization, Nostalgic Longing, and the Exilic National Imaginary; 6. The Cultural Politics of Hybridity; Table 1. Periodicals published in Los Angeles, 1980-92; Table 2. Regularly scheduled radio programs aired in Los Angeles, 1980-92; Table 3. Organizations sponsoring "newscasts" by telephone in Los Angeles
Summary
Naficy explores the seemingly contradictory way in which immigrant media and cultural productions serve as the source both of resistance and opposition to the domination by host and home country's social values while simultaneously serving as vehicles for personal and cultural transformation and assimilation of those values
