Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria
(2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). Engendering Critique: Postnational Feminism in Postcolonial Syria. Women's studies quarterly, 42(3-4), 213-233. https://doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2014.0054
All Outputs (13)
Form without a home: On translating the indo-Persian Radif (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). Form without a home: On translating the indo-Persian Radif. Translation Review, 90(1), 15-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/07374836.2014.985061
Hijab as commodity form: Veiling, unveiling, and misveiling in contemporary Iran (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). Hijab as commodity form: Veiling, unveiling, and misveiling in contemporary Iran. Feminist Theory, 15(3), 221-240. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700114544610This article considers how state-mandated veiling and unveiling reinforce modern capitalism. State regulations regarding veiling incorporate the female body into the political economy of the commodity form. In addition to serving as an empty signifie... Read More about Hijab as commodity form: Veiling, unveiling, and misveiling in contemporary Iran.
Persian Autobiography Syllabus (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). Persian Autobiography Syllabus. Social Science Research Network, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3095080This 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 th... Read More about Persian Autobiography Syllabus.
Conservative in form, revolutionary in content: Rethinking world literary canons in an age of globalization (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). Conservative in form, revolutionary in content: Rethinking world literary canons in an age of globalization. Canadian review of comparative literature, 41(3), 270-286. https://doi.org/10.1353/crc.2014.0031
Sumud: The Palestinian Art of Existence (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). Sumud: The Palestinian Art of Existence. World policy journal, 31(3), 99-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/0740277514552979
The lonely hero and chechen modernity: Interpreting the story of Gekha the Abrek (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). The lonely hero and chechen modernity: Interpreting the story of Gekha the Abrek. Journal of folklore research, 51(2), 199-222. https://doi.org/10.2979/jfolkrese.51.2.199Abstract This essay interprets the Chechen ballad (illi) of the social bandit Gekha (d. 1898) in the context of Chechnya's encounter with colonial modernity. Gekha's illi elucidates the interface between anticolonial resistance and masculine identity... Read More about The lonely hero and chechen modernity: Interpreting the story of Gekha the Abrek.
The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). The Poetics from Athens to al-Andalus: Ibn Rushd’s Grounds for Comparison. Modern Philology: Critical and Historical Studies in Literature, Medieval through Contemporary, 112(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1086/676464
The Political Cosmology of Prison Poetics: Khāqānī of Shirwān on Muslim–Christian Difference (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). The Political Cosmology of Prison Poetics: Khāqānī of Shirwān on Muslim–Christian Difference. Literature Compass, 11(7), 496-515. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12166This essay examines the political cosmology fostered by the medieval Persian prison poem, specifically in the oeuvre of Khāqānī of Shirwān (d. 1199), in relation to this genre's cosmopolitan geography. I focus in particular on how Khāqānī's Christian... Read More about The Political Cosmology of Prison Poetics: Khāqānī of Shirwān on Muslim–Christian Difference.
Aleksandre Qazbegi's mountaineer prosaics: The anticolonial vernacular on Georgian-Chechen borderlands (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). Aleksandre Qazbegi's mountaineer prosaics: The anticolonial vernacular on Georgian-Chechen borderlands. Ab imperio, 2014(1), 361-390. https://doi.org/10.1353/imp.2014.0012
Antiquarianism as genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano's method (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). Antiquarianism as genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano's method. History and Theory: Studies in the philosophy of history, 53(2), 212-233. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.10706This essay uses Arnaldo Momigliano's genealogy of antiquarianism and historiography to propose a new method for engaging the past. Momigliano traced antiquarianism from its advent in ancient Greece and later growth in Rome to its early modern efflore... Read More about Antiquarianism as genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano's method.
The Materiality of Resistance: Israel’s Apartheid Wall in an Age of Globalization (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). The Materiality of Resistance: Israel’s Apartheid Wall in an Age of Globalization. Social Text, 32(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2391315This essay examines the graffiti that covers the portion of the West Bank’s segregation wall that traverses Bethlehem. That the majority of the representations covering the wall are intended for international rather than local consumption complicates... Read More about The Materiality of Resistance: Israel’s Apartheid Wall in an Age of Globalization.
Aaron Swartz's legacy (2014)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2014). Aaron Swartz's legacy. Academe (Washington, D.C. 1979), 100(1), 19-23. https://doi.org/10.17613/0x52-yd95