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Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016)
Book
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.

Violence as Recognition, Recognition as Violence (2016)
Book Chapter
Gould, R. R. (2016). Violence as Recognition, Recognition as Violence. In R. R. Gould (Ed.), Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (202-230). Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300200645.003.0005

This chapter examines transgressive sanctity's most recent iteration in wartime Chechnya. It focuses on local memories of Chechnya's first female suicide bombing in 2001. As it excavates the spaces of political life that remain unclarified by analyse... Read More about Violence as Recognition, Recognition as Violence.

The Caucasus as Region, Literature as Method (2016)
Book Chapter
Gould, R. R. (2016). The Caucasus as Region, Literature as Method. In R. R. Gould (Ed.), Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (1-32). Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300200645.003.0001

This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine the aestheticization of violence in the vernacular literatures of the Caucasus from the nineteenth century to the Soviet period through the framework of transgressive sa... Read More about The Caucasus as Region, Literature as Method.

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.

Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature (2016)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2016). Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature. Anthropology and Humanism, 41(1), 86-101. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12109

This essay chronicles a journey through the Caucasus toward the end of the second Russo-Chechen war. It focuses in particular on the discovery of a little-known Soviet-era work of historical fiction by the Ingush author Idris Bazorkin (1910-1991). In... Read More about Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature.

Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān (2016)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2016). Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān. Journal of Persianate Studies, 9(1), 19-44. https://doi.org/10.1163/18747167-12341296

This article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic le... Read More about Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān.

The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology (2016)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2016). The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology. Intellectual History Review, 26(2), 171-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2016.1144420

Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize* Mīrzā Fatḥ 'Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European Enlighten... Read More about The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology.

Vested Reading: Writing the Self through Ethan Frome (2016)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2016). Vested Reading: Writing the Self through Ethan Frome. Life Writing, 13(4), 415-430. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2015.1124742

This essay builds on the work of Wolfgang Iser, Janice Radway, E. H. Gombrich, and other theorists of reading to argue for a new approach to the reading encounter, which I call vested reading. Vested reading is a means of engaging with the literary t... Read More about Vested Reading: Writing the Self through Ethan Frome.

The much-maligned panegyric: Toward a political poetics of premodern literary form (2015)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2015). The much-maligned panegyric: Toward a political poetics of premodern literary form. Comparative Literature Studies, 52(2), 254-288. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.52.2.0254

This article examines the panegyric across the literary traditions of West, South, and East Asia, concentrating on Arabo-Persian qaṣīda, the Sanskrit praśasti, and the Chinese fu. In radically different albeit analogous ways, these three genres elabo... Read More about The much-maligned panegyric: Toward a political poetics of premodern literary form.

The geographies of 'Ajam: The circulation of Persian poetry from South Asia to the Caucasus (2015)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2015). The geographies of 'Ajam: The circulation of Persian poetry from South Asia to the Caucasus. Medieval History Journal, 18(1), 87-119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0971945814565729

With the consolidation of Persian literary culture across the eastern Islamic ecumene, Persian poets gained confidence in the power of their craft to shape their world. Alongside other genres, the medieval Persian prison poem (habsīyyāt) strikingly i... Read More about The geographies of 'Ajam: The circulation of Persian poetry from South Asia to the Caucasus.

Philology’s Contingent Genealogies (2015)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2015). Philology’s Contingent Genealogies. Philology an international journal on the evolution of languages, cultures and texts, 1(1), 53-66. https://doi.org/10.3726/78000_53

Starting from an analysis of “classical” philological (and philosophical) works, the author explains how philology can contribute to the perception of the contingency of human knowledge. The early modern discovery of linguistic contingency was inaugu... Read More about Philology’s Contingent Genealogies.

Ijtiha¯d against Madhhab: Legal hybridity and the meanings of modernity in early modern Daghestan (2015)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2015). Ijtiha¯d against Madhhab: Legal hybridity and the meanings of modernity in early modern Daghestan. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 57(1), 35-66. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417514000590

This article explores the interface of multiple legal systems in early modern Daghestan. By comparing colonial engagements with legal plurality with indigenous genres of Daghestani legal discourse, I aim to shed light on the plurality of legal system... Read More about Ijtiha¯d against Madhhab: Legal hybridity and the meanings of modernity in early modern Daghestan.

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/10.1177/1464700114544610

This 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.