1. Introduction: Dislocation and Writing 2. Writing in Exile 3. Malouf's An Imaginary Life 3.1. Exile and Romantic Writing 3.2. Ovid's Poetic Language 3.

3. Untamed Nature as a "Background to Human Drama" 3.4. The Child: Beyond the Limits of Self-identity 3.5. A Sense of Exile 3.6. Metamorphoses and Metamorphoses 3.

7. Symbols: Garden and Seasons 3.8. Sexuality and Desire 4. Parsipur's Women Without Men and Iranian Diaspora Women's Literature 4.1. Goli Taraghi and Scriptotherapy 4.2.

Parsipur: 'a nay-sayer' 4.3. The Story of Parsipur's Women and Patriarchal Subjugation 4.4. Writing about Taboos and Ridiculing the Imposed Ideologies 4.5. Feminine Writing 4.6.

Of Other Spaces: Garden and Heterotopias, Re-evaluation and Restoration 4.7. Nomadic Experience of Women Without Men 4.8. Narratives of Iranian Diaspora Women 4.9. Lipstick Jihad and Hybrid Identity 4.10.

Persepolis and a Third Space 5. Conclusion.