Sina Rahmani
Biographic Data
| ID | 3868899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sina Rahmani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sina |
| FAMILY NAME | Rahmani |
| SIGNATURE | RAHMANI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Penelope’s Crossword
Why does W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz escape from the laws of fictionality and factuality? How do so many of the people and place names inside of it start so improbably with the letter A? Why do so many iterations of A—as initials, as markings, or as individual letters—appear somewhat frequently and prominently? Why does the return of the repressed coincide with the completion of a crossword puzzle taking place in a used bookstore? Why is the puzzle…
Words, Not Bombs
The introduction to this special issue of boundary 2 examines W. G. Sebald’s rapid and sudden transformation from controversial and curmudgeonly Germanist to literary superstar as a case study in the “global valences of the critical.” The massive success of Sebald’s strange and variegated oeuvre among critics highlights a pervasive and troubling provincialism afflicting this supposedly global moment in world cultural history. Using Sebald’s The R…
Death from Above
Austro-Afghan journalist and writer Emran Feroz discusses his work on the global drone war currently being waged by the US and its allies. The interview explores the author’s experiences growing up in Austria immediately after the September 11, 2001, attacks against the United States and the subsequent invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by a US-led coalition. The author also recounts the hidden history surrounding the first known drone attack…
The Stateless Novel
This essay explores the various ways in which W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz upends traditional understandings of the novel as a form. Specifically, it situates this “prose book of an undetermined kind” against the rise of the steel container as the dominant mode of commodity transportation. The novel today is best understood as a shipping container giving refuge to virtually any kind of aesthetic or narrative content. The “stateless” (as opposed to g…
Wrestling with the Revolution
This paper maps how American popular culture came to terms with the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran through a study of Hussein Khosrow Vaziri. Vaziri, better known by his moniker, “The Iron Sheik,” was active in professional wrestling in the 1980s and remains to this day one of the most well-known Iranians in American cultural memory. Through an analysis of his character and how he has been represented in the popular media, I argue that he was ch…
Anti-imperialism and Its Discontents
Research Article| May 01 2006 Anti-imperialism and Its Discontents: An Interview with Mark Rudd, Founding Member of the Weather Underground Sina Rahmani Sina Rahmani Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 115–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sina Rahmani; Anti-imperialism and Its Discontents: An In…
Edward Said
Other| August 01 2005 Edward Said: The Last Interview; Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said; The Battle of Algiers Sina Rahmani Sina Rahmani Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 513–515. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-2-513 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sina Rahmani; Edward Said: The Last Inter…
Wrestling with the Revolution
This paper maps how American popular culture came to terms with the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran through a study of Hussein Khosrow Vaziri. Vaziri, better known by his moniker, “The Iron Sheik,” was active in professional wrestling in the 1980s and remains to this day one of the most well-known Iranians in American cultural memory. Through an analysis of his character and how he has been represented in the popular media, I argue that he was ch…
Edward Said
Other| August 01 2005 Edward Said: The Last Interview; Selves and Others: A Portrait of Edward Said; The Battle of Algiers Sina Rahmani Sina Rahmani Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 513–515. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-2-513 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sina Rahmani; Edward Said: The Last Inter…
Anti-imperialism and Its Discontents
Research Article| May 01 2006 Anti-imperialism and Its Discontents: An Interview with Mark Rudd, Founding Member of the Weather Underground Sina Rahmani Sina Rahmani Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 115–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sina Rahmani; Anti-imperialism and Its Discontents: An In…
Wrestling with the Revolution
This paper maps how American popular culture came to terms with the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran through a study of Hussein Khosrow Vaziri. Vaziri, better known by his moniker, “The Iron Sheik,” was active in professional wrestling in the 1980s and remains to this day one of the most well-known Iranians in American cultural memory. Through an analysis of his character and how he has been represented in the popular media, I argue that he was ch…
Penelope’s Crossword
Why does W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz escape from the laws of fictionality and factuality? How do so many of the people and place names inside of it start so improbably with the letter A? Why do so many iterations of A—as initials, as markings, or as individual letters—appear somewhat frequently and prominently? Why does the return of the repressed coincide with the completion of a crossword puzzle taking place in a used bookstore? Why is the puzzle…
Words, Not Bombs
The introduction to this special issue of boundary 2 examines W. G. Sebald’s rapid and sudden transformation from controversial and curmudgeonly Germanist to literary superstar as a case study in the “global valences of the critical.” The massive success of Sebald’s strange and variegated oeuvre among critics highlights a pervasive and troubling provincialism afflicting this supposedly global moment in world cultural history. Using Sebald’s The R…
Death from Above
Austro-Afghan journalist and writer Emran Feroz discusses his work on the global drone war currently being waged by the US and its allies. The interview explores the author’s experiences growing up in Austria immediately after the September 11, 2001, attacks against the United States and the subsequent invasion and occupation of Afghanistan by a US-led coalition. The author also recounts the hidden history surrounding the first known drone attack…
The Stateless Novel
This essay explores the various ways in which W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz upends traditional understandings of the novel as a form. Specifically, it situates this “prose book of an undetermined kind” against the rise of the steel container as the dominant mode of commodity transportation. The novel today is best understood as a shipping container giving refuge to virtually any kind of aesthetic or narrative content. The “stateless” (as opposed to g…
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