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PROF Rebecca Gould's Outputs (6)

The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination (2021)
Book
Gould, R. R. (2021). The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474484015.001.0001

The Persian Prison Poem is the first study of the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across twelfth-century Central, South, and West Asia. While documenting the emergence of a concept of poetry as a form of political resistance, the book shows the profoun... Read More about The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (2020)
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Gould, R. R., & Tahmasebian, K. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315149660

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism provides an accessible, diverse and ground-breaking overview of literary, cultural, and political translation across a range of activist contexts. As the first extended collection to offer perspectiv... Read More about The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism.

Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016)
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Gould, R. R. (2016). Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300200645.001.0001

Spanning the period between the end of the Russo-Caucasian War and the death of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, this groundbreaking book is the first to compare Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani depictions of anticolonial insurgency. Rebecca... Read More about Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus.