Kamran Rastegar
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi” (Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2018) in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWhile the cosmopolitan turn in political and literary theory encourages us to move beyond national frameworks, the Caucasus remains mired in ethno-national categories from the Soviet past. This essay examines how these categories are being mobilized in the service of a nominally cosmopolitan agenda in the contemporary memorialization of the writer…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi” (Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2018) in the group
Ottoman and Turkish Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWhile the cosmopolitan turn in political and literary theory encourages us to move beyond national frameworks, the Caucasus remains mired in ethno-national categories from the Soviet past. This essay examines how these categories are being mobilized in the service of a nominally cosmopolitan agenda in the contemporary memorialization of the writer…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi” (Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2018) in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWhile the cosmopolitan turn in political and literary theory encourages us to move beyond national frameworks, the Caucasus remains mired in ethno-national categories from the Soviet past. This essay examines how these categories are being mobilized in the service of a nominally cosmopolitan agenda in the contemporary memorialization of the writer…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Theorising Violence: Colonial Encounters and Anticolonial Reactions (MA level) in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoHow does colonial violence generate anticolonial resistance? Is violence ever justified, whether as an end or as a means? What aesthetic strategies do writers deploy to legitimate the exercise of violence? What is the relationship between militant insurgency and literary form? Posing these and other questions, this course offers an introduction to…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. The methodology of hard…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form in the group
Literary Translation on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. The methodology of hard…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. The methodology of hard…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Persian Autobiography Syllabus on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
This course covers autobiographical writings in Persian from premodern times to contemporary Iran. It reflects the emergence of autobiographical writing in the first days of Islam and an evolving sense of self, identity, and cultural cohesion, and then records transitions within the political/economic power structures in the geographical region.…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America,” Journal of American Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
American Muslims increasingly negotiate their relation to a government that is suspicious of Islam, yet which recognizes them as rights-bearing citizens, within a culture they claim as their own. To better understand how the post-9/11 state is reshaping American Islam, I examine the case of Muslim American dissident Tarek Mehanna, sentenced to…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi” (Interventions International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2018) on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
While the cosmopolitan turn in political and literary theory encourages us to move beyond national frameworks, the Caucasus remains mired in ethno-national categories from the Soviet past. This essay examines how these categories are being mobilized in the service of a nominally cosmopolitan agenda in the contemporary memorialization of the writer…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Theorising Violence: Colonial Encounters and Anticolonial Reactions (MA level) on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
How does colonial violence generate anticolonial resistance? Is violence ever justified, whether as an end or as a means? What aesthetic strategies do writers deploy to legitimate the exercise of violence? What is the relationship between militant insurgency and literary form? Posing these and other questions, this course offers an introduction to…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Hard Translation: Persian Poetry and Post-National Literary Form on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months ago
This essay examines how translation theory can globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolated from the latest developments within the study of non-European literatures. The methodology of hard…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 8 years agoCfP for MEHAT 2018, for graduate students. If you have/know graduate students, please encourage them to apply:
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars about the Middle…[Read more] -
Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
LLC West Asian on MLA Commons 8 years agoGraduate students, please apply! Those who teach grad students, please circulate this CfP for MEHAT:
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars about the Middle East from…[Read more] -
Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
Digital Middle East & Islamic Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoMEHAT 2018 is looking for graduate students whose scholarship is at the intersection of digital humanities and Middle Eastern studies. Apply, and circulate widely:
Call for Papers
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from…[Read more] -
Ghenwa Hayek posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 8 years agoGraduate students in GAAA Studies, please apply to MEHAT! Those of you who teach graduate students, please encourage your students to apply:
33rd Annual Middle East History & Theory Conference
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 4-5, 2018
We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and…[Read more] -
Ghenwa Hayek posted an update on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
Apply to MEHAT 2018, or encourage others to do so: https://voices.uchicago.edu/mehat/conference/cfp/
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Hania Nashef deposited A dialogue beyond the nation-state: Darwish’s Mural and Shehadeh’s A Rift in Time: Travels with my Ottoman Uncle in the group
Postcolonial Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoEven though postcolonial theory has helped in the critique of non-western texts, it has for the most part failed to engage with the Arab region and its literatures in spite of Edward Said’s seminal book, Orientalism. Robert Young argues that postcolonial theory since its inception has been concerned with the politics of invisibility, striving to m…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited A dialogue beyond the nation-state: Darwish’s Mural and Shehadeh’s A Rift in Time: Travels with my Ottoman Uncle in the group
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 8 years agoEven though postcolonial theory has helped in the critique of non-western texts, it has for the most part failed to engage with the Arab region and its literatures in spite of Edward Said’s seminal book, Orientalism. Robert Young argues that postcolonial theory since its inception has been concerned with the politics of invisibility, striving to m…[Read more]
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