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PROF Rebecca Gould's Outputs (105)

World literature as a communal apartment: Semyon lipkin's ethics of translational difference (2012)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2012). World literature as a communal apartment: Semyon lipkin's ethics of translational difference. Translation and Literature, 21(3), 402-421. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2012.0090

Semyon Lipkin (1911–2003) was one of the Soviet Union's most productive and visionary translators. In addition to introducing Russian readers to Persianate literary traditions and to the oral epics of the indigenous peoples of Central Asia and the Ca... Read More about World literature as a communal apartment: Semyon lipkin's ethics of translational difference.

Prisons before modernity: Incarceration in the medieval Indo-Mediterranean (2012)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2012). Prisons before modernity: Incarceration in the medieval Indo-Mediterranean. Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean, 24(2), 179-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2012.684759

Over the course of the sixth/twelfth century, a new literary genre entered the Eastern Islamic world: the Persian prison poem (ḥabsiyyāt). Far from being an isolated event, the prison poem was forged when punishment came to be reconfigured as incarce... Read More about Prisons before modernity: Incarceration in the medieval Indo-Mediterranean.

Imam Shamil (1797-1871) (2012)
Book Chapter
Gould, R. R. (2012). Imam Shamil (1797-1871). In S. M. Norris, & W. Sunderland (Eds.), Russia’s People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present (117-127). Indiana University Press

Leaving the house of memory: Post-Soviet traces of deportation memory (2012)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2012). Leaving the house of memory: Post-Soviet traces of deportation memory. Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, 45(2), 149-164. https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2012.a479205

Drawing on Pierre Nora's contribution to memory studies, this essay examines the mediation of history by deportation memory. Literary texts and ethnography are used to illuminate the historical experience of two Muslim peoples of the Caucasus: the Ch... Read More about Leaving the house of memory: Post-Soviet traces of deportation memory.

Reading Ruins against the Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality (2012)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2012). Reading Ruins against the Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality. Culture, Theory and Critique, 53(1), 19-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2012.657911

The ruins of church-mosques, museums, and ancient cities inform material culture as allegories inform spiritual life, invoking forms of transcendence amidst the desacralised conditions of post-imperial modernities. Drawing on the work done by Benjami... Read More about Reading Ruins against the Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality.

Dialectics of filiation and affiliation: Toma Baliauri's Testament and the Archive of Anticolonialism (2011)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2011). Dialectics of filiation and affiliation: Toma Baliauri's Testament and the Archive of Anticolonialism. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 13(4), 640-650. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2011.628151

An English translation of the ‘Last Will and Testament of Toma Baliauri’ is given here along with a critical introduction to this text. The introduction frames Baliauri's testament within the context of the anticolonial revolutionary movements that s... Read More about Dialectics of filiation and affiliation: Toma Baliauri's Testament and the Archive of Anticolonialism.

Secularism and Belief in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge (2011)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2011). Secularism and Belief in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge. Journal of Islamic Studies, 22(3), 339-373. https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etr061

This paper discusses the diverse forms of contemporary Islam practised by the Kists, inhabitants of Georgia's Pankisi Gorge related to the Chechens. The newest wave of Salafi-inspired Islam among the young generation of Chechens, mostly men who have... Read More about Secularism and Belief in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge.

The Geography of Comparative Literature (2011)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2011). The Geography of Comparative Literature. Journal of Literary Theory, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.1515/jlt.2011.016

This essay compares the geographic norms of contemporary comparative literature to those operative in the related disciplines of history and area studies. Surveying the standard anthologies in the field, especially the recently revised Norton Antholo... Read More about The Geography of Comparative Literature.

The modernity of premodern Islam in contemporary Daghestan (2011)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2011). The modernity of premodern Islam in contemporary Daghestan. Contemporary Islam, 5(2), 161-183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-010-0146-3

This ethnographic essay investigates the relations between past and present forms of Islam in the north Caucasian Republic of Daghestan. Conversations culled from fieldwork in Daghestani urban and rural spaces are used to elucidate the cultural, reli... Read More about The modernity of premodern Islam in contemporary Daghestan.

The Twilight of Georgian Literary Modernism (2009)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2009). The Twilight of Georgian Literary Modernism. Metamorphoses: Journal of the Five-College Seminar on Literary Translation, 17(1), 50-103