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PROF Rebecca Gould's Outputs (105)

The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy (2021)
Journal Article
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.

The Temporality of Desire in Ḥasan Dihlavī’s ʿIshqnāma (2020)
Journal Article
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 Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (2020)
Book
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.

Introduction: Translation and Activism in the Time of the Now (2020)
Book Chapter
Gould, R. R., & Tahmasebian, K. (2020). Introduction: Translation and Activism in the Time of the Now. In The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism (1-9). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315149660-1

Co-authored by the volume’s editors, the introduction develops a conceptual framework for thinking about the intersection of translation and activism at the global level. We present four paradigms for translational activism introduced in this volume’... Read More about Introduction: Translation and Activism in the Time of the Now.

Naimy and the Russian Literary Canon (2019)
Book Chapter
Gould, R. R. (2019). Naimy and the Russian Literary Canon. In M. A. Rihani, & M. W. Dravis (Eds.), Reshaping the Landscapes of Arab Thought: The Legacies of Kahlil Gibran, Ameen Rihani & Mikhail Naimy (125-136). University of Maryland. The Khalil Gibran Chair for Values and Peace

The aesthetic terrain of settler colonialism: Katherine Mansfield and Anton Chekhov’s natives (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

The Communist International and the Muslim Umma: Marxist Solidarities from Baku to Calcutta (Keynote Lecture, 8 June, UCL) (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gould, R. R. (2018, June). The Communist International and the Muslim Umma: Marxist Solidarities from Baku to Calcutta (Keynote Lecture, 8 June, UCL). Presented at Communism in the vernacular: international imaginaries, local politics, University College London, Institute for Advanced Studies

“The Communist International and the Muslim Umma: Marxist Solidarities from Baku to Calcutta” University College London, Institute for Advanced Studies (Keynote lecture for “Communism in the vernacular: international imaginaries, local politics,” 8 J... Read More about The Communist International and the Muslim Umma: Marxist Solidarities from Baku to Calcutta (Keynote Lecture, 8 June, UCL).

Telling the Story of Literature from Inside Out: The Methods and Tools of Non-European Poetics (2018)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi (2018)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2018). Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 20(4), 488-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1439397

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... Read More about Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi.

Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America (2017)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2019). Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America. Journal of American Studies, 53(1), 146-171. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875817001426

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 reshap... Read More about Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America.

Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration (2017)
Journal Article
Ruth Gould, R. (2017). Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration. Prose Studies, 39(1), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440357.2017.1394637

This essay examines the development of prison memoirs in modern Iranian prose. It constructs from the prison memoirs of the dissident writers ʿAli Dashti, Bozorg ʿAlavi, and Reza Baraheni a genealogy of the emergence of prison consciousness in Irania... Read More about Literature as a tribunal: the modern Iranian prose of incarceration.

Beyond the Taqlīd/Ijtihād Dichotomy: Daghestani Legal Thought under Russian Rule (2017)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R., & Shikhaliev, S. (2017). Beyond the Taqlīd/Ijtihād Dichotomy: Daghestani Legal Thought under Russian Rule. Islamic Law and Society, 24(1-2), 142-169. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685195-02412p06

As one of the first scholarly studies of Jirāb al-Mamnūn, a collection of letters by the Daghestani Shāfiʿī scholar Ḥasan al-Alqadārī (1834–1910), this article challenges the ijtihād/taqlīd dichotomy within Islamic legal thought and argues for a mor... Read More about Beyond the Taqlīd/Ijtihād Dichotomy: Daghestani Legal Thought under Russian Rule.

The Persian translation of Arabic aesthetics: Rādūyān's rhetorical renaissance (2016)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2016). The Persian translation of Arabic aesthetics: Rādūyān's rhetorical renaissance. Rhetorica, 34(4), 339-371. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.4.339

Notwithstanding its value as the earliest extant New Persian treatment of the art of rhetoric, Rādūyānī's Interpreter of Rhetoric (Tarjumān al-Balāgha) has yet to be read from the vantage point of comparative poetics. Composed in the Ferghana region... Read More about The Persian translation of Arabic aesthetics: Rādūyān's rhetorical renaissance.

The Abrek in Soviet Chechen Literature (2016)
Book Chapter
Gould, R. R. (2016). The Abrek in Soviet Chechen Literature. In R. R. Gould (Ed.), Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (33-91). Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300200645.003.0002

This chapter traces the emergence of the anticolonial bandit (abrek) in Chechen Soviet literature. Beyond mapping this institution onto its broader social context, it studies how the sanctification of social banditry in Soviet literature recalibrates... Read More about The Abrek in Soviet Chechen Literature.

Regulating Rebellion: Miracles, Insurgency, and Daghestani Modernity (2016)
Book Chapter
Gould, R. R. (2016). Regulating Rebellion: Miracles, Insurgency, and Daghestani Modernity. In R. R. Gould (Ed.), Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (92-157). Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300200645.003.0003

This chapter explores literary and historiographic renderings of Daghestani rebellions from 1877 and 1921 across Arabic and Russian sources. It focuses in particular on the Arabic historiography that coalesced around the 1877 rebellion that swept thr... Read More about Regulating Rebellion: Miracles, Insurgency, and Daghestani Modernity.