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PROF Rebecca Gould's Outputs (82)

The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide (2024)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2024). The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide. Diacritics, 52(1), 140-150. https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2024.a955192

This essay examines the pro-Palestine student encampment movement of 2024 within the framework of political debates concerning comparisons between Palestinian and Jewish historical experience. I turn to recent efforts to compare Gaza with the Warsaw... Read More about The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide.

Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids (2024)
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Hamamra, B., Gould, R. R., & Mayaleh, A. (2024). Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids. Third World Quarterly, 45(13), 1929-1946. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2024.2409917

Palestinian women’s engagement with politics and their appropriation of conventionally masculine acts of martyrdom during the Second Intifada (2002–2005) have been subject to intense public debate, media scrutiny and contested cultural representation... Read More about Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids.

Free speech and democracy in Palestinian Universities: A call for parrhesiastic speech (2024)
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Hamamra, B., & Gould, R. R. (2024). Free speech and democracy in Palestinian Universities: A call for parrhesiastic speech. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 56(13), 1317-1331. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2024.2391857

This article examines the factors contributing to the suppression of free speech in Palestine, with a focus on the West Bank. We argue that anti-democratic politics and restricted public discourse in both public and academic spheres are mutually rein... Read More about Free speech and democracy in Palestinian Universities: A call for parrhesiastic speech.

The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity (2024)
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Mayaleh, A., Hamamra, B., & Gould, R. R. (2025). The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 46(1), 172-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2024.2374557

Further developing Stephen McCloskey’s argument that the war on Ukraine has revealed a hierarchy of victims that is rooted in racial and other forms of prejudice, we show how refugees from the Muslim world and Africa are stereotyped as potential crim... Read More about The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity.

Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges (2024)
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Tahmasebian, K., & Gould, R. R. (2024). Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 56(1), 38-54. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743824000266

Although translation and commentary are often treated as distinct, separable activities in literary and intellectual history, the Persian tradition of Qur'an exegesis demonstrates that they are best understood in relation to each other. Introducing t... Read More about Hyper-exegesis in Persian Translations of the Qur’an: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges.

Dissecting the ‘new antisemitism’ project: Review of: Antony Lerman, 'Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’'. London: Pluto, 2022. xii+317pp. Notes. Ind. £17.99 pbk. ISBN: 978-0-74533-877-4 pbk. (2023)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2023). Dissecting the ‘new antisemitism’ project: Review of: Antony Lerman, 'Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’'. London: Pluto, 2022. xii+317pp. Notes. Ind. £17.99 pbk. ISBN: 978-0-74533-877-4 pbk. Patterns of Prejudice, 57(3), 203-205. https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322x.2023.2319001

Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics (2023)
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Tahmasebian Dehkordi, K., & Gould, R. R. (2023). Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics. Comparative Literature, 75(3), 373-391. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-10475471

Line breaks are arguably the defining feature of poetry, in the absence of which a text becomes prose. Consequently, the translation of line breaks is a decisive issue for every poetry translator. Classical and modern literary theorists have argued t... Read More about Translating Line Breaks: A View from Persian Poetics.

The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu’s Canon of the Global South (2022)
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Tahmasebian Dehkordi, K., & Gould, R. R. (2022). The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu’s Canon of the Global South. Twentieth-Century Literature, 68(1), 25-52. https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462x-9668884

This article explores how the Iranian poet and translator Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000) reconceives the configuration of world poetics. Working at the intersection of global modernism and translation studies, it traces the formation of a Persian modernist... Read More about The Translational Horizons of Iranian Modernism: Ahmad Shamlu’s Canon of the Global South.

The Temporality of Interlinear Translation (2021)
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Tahmasebian Dehkordi, K., & Gould, R. R. (2021). The Temporality of Interlinear Translation. Representations, 155(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2021.155.1.1

This article examines the temporality of interlinear translation through a case study of the rendering of Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetry into Persian. We argue that, in its adherence to the word order of the original, the interlinear crib prioritizes t... Read More about The Temporality of Interlinear Translation.

The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy (2021)
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Swanson, M., & Ruth Gould, R. The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy. Journal of Arabic Literature, 52(1-2), 170-201. https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341433

Drawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naim... Read More about The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy.

Ajnabi, Or the Xenological Uncanny in Iranian Modernism (2021)
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Tahmasebian Dehkordi, K., & Gould, R. R. (2021). Ajnabi, Or the Xenological Uncanny in Iranian Modernism. New Literary History, 52(1), 145-168. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2021.0006

Within Iran, the transformation in the Islamic legal understanding of the foreign (ajnabi) into a political concept was accelerated by the encounter with Europe during the nineteenth century. The classical Iranian understanding of otherness as a doma... Read More about Ajnabi, Or the Xenological Uncanny in Iranian Modernism.

The Temporality of Desire in Ḥasan Dihlavī’s ʿIshqnāma (2020)
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Gould, R. R., & Tahmasebian, K. (2020). The Temporality of Desire in Ḥasan Dihlavī’s ʿIshqnāma. Journal of medieval worlds, 2(3-4), 72-95. https://doi.org/10.1525/jmw.2020.2.3-4.72

This article constitutes the beginning of our work on Ḥasan Dihlavī’s ʿIshqnāma, which will include a critical bilingual edition of this work, based on manuscripts to which we did not have access at the time of this writing (see n41), to be entitled:... Read More about The Temporality of Desire in Ḥasan Dihlavī’s ʿIshqnāma.

The aesthetic terrain of settler colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s natives (2018)
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Gould, R. R. (2019). The aesthetic terrain of settler colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s natives. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(1), 48-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2018.1511242

While Anton Chekhov’s influence on Katherine Mansfield is widely acknowledged, the two writers’ settler colonial aesthetics have not been brought into systematic comparison. Yet Chekhov’s chronicle of Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East parallels... Read More about The aesthetic terrain of settler colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s natives.

Legal Form and Legal Legitimacy: The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism as a Case Study in Censored Speech (2018)
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Gould, R. R. (2022). Legal Form and Legal Legitimacy: The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism as a Case Study in Censored Speech. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 18(1), 153-186. https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872118780660

The challenge posed by legal indeterminacy to legal legitimacy has generally been considered from points of view internal to the law and its application. But what becomes of legal legitimacy when the legal status of a given norm is itself a matter of... Read More about Legal Form and Legal Legitimacy: The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism as a Case Study in Censored Speech.

Telling the Story of Literature from Inside Out: The Methods and Tools of Non-European Poetics (2018)
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Gould, R. R. (2018). Telling the Story of Literature from Inside Out: The Methods and Tools of Non-European Poetics. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 38(1), 170-180. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-4390341

Gould’s discussion of Innovations and Turning Points: Toward a History of Kāvya Literature (2014), a magisterial contribution to South Asian literature edited by Yigal Bronner, David Shulman, and Gary Tubb, situates this work within broader trends wi... Read More about Telling the Story of Literature from Inside Out: The Methods and Tools of Non-European Poetics.

Hard translation: Persian poetry and post-national literary form (2018)
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Ruth Gould, R. (2018). Hard translation: Persian poetry and post-national literary form. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 54(2), 191-206. https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqx039

This essay examines how translation theory can further globalize contemporary literary comparison. Whereas Persian studies has historically been isolated from the latest developments within literary theory, world literature has similarly been isolate... Read More about Hard translation: Persian poetry and post-national literary form.