Amirhossein Vafa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5443159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amirhossein Vafa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amirhossein |
| FAMILY NAME | Vafa |
| SIGNATURE | VAFA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shiraz University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0261-5266 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Postfeminism to Foucault
This paper examines Hamm's Becoming Medusa (2021) through the lenses of postfeminism and Foucault's theories of power and agency, foregrounding the significance of revisionist retelling. Since the 1970s, female protagonists like Medusa have gained popularity due to the postfeminist reimagining of Greek mythology. The reclaiming of Medusa's narrative has undergone a series of shifts in the perception of her character, moving from a position of vic…
Un-Learning the Anthropocene
In the twenty-first century, environmental issues and climate change have found their way into mainstream discourse, wherein ecofeminism can act as a transformative project. The subversive and visionary science fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), with its focus on gender and nature, has imaginatively cleared the road for the reader to conceive an alternative to the world of capitalist modernity, a world that has led…
The Decolonial Aesthetics of Failure in Ali Hatami's Haji Washington (1982)
Based freely on the writings of Hoseyn Qoli Khān Nuri, Persia's first ambassador to the United States (1888–1889), Haji Washington (1982) was Ali Hatami's first feature film following the Islamic Revolution. This article explores Hatami's departure from historical record in light of his aesthetic and political appropriation of Nuri's image as a failure. Viewing the film through a methodology that recasts failure as decolonial praxis beyond post/c…
Violence and Bigotry
Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane is one of the most celebrated recent works of Irish fiction. It is set in 2053, and tells the story of a people living in an environment of constant conflict where senseless acts of violence and bigotry are prevalent. This surprisingly negative imagining of Ireland in the future cannot be ignored considering the modern history of the country. The contemporary history of Ireland is fraught with a long and desperate str…
Speculative fiction as “decolonial option”
Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965) is an Iranian novel in English, a speculative fiction written during the Allied occupation of Iran in World War II. In it, Mirdrekvandi, a migrant labourer who served a platoon of British and American soldiers stationed in Tehran, depicts the aftermath of World War III in the year 2084, when a regiment of Anglo American soldiers, followed by their servant Gunga Din, searches for Heaven across the …
Lost in Paradise
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After Isolation
In this article, we theoretically conceptualise the renegotiation of participatory action and activism through the formation of intellectual space that is self-reflective and upheld by what we metaphorically describe as mirrors between parallel worlds. Rethinking what activism is and how an individual relates to their social group is dependent on different levels of self-reflection, self-criticism and competing scales of insertion of other people…
Race and the Aesthetics of Alterity in Mahshid Amirshahi’s Dadeh Qadam-Kheyr
Focusing on black women Qadam-Kheyr and Sorur in Mahshid Amirshahi’s novel Dadeh Qadam-Kheyr (1999), this article examines literary representations of the African-Iranian presence, and provides a critique of race and slavery in twentieth-century Iran. In light of the history of the Iranian slave trade until 1928, and the reconstruction of race and gender identities along Eurocentric lines of nationalism in Iran, the novel under scrutiny is a dyna…
The Predicament of Complicity with Hegemonic Masculinity in Goli Taraghi's In Another Place
The theory of hegemonic masculinity has been influential in studies of men, masculinities, and gender relations. In most human societies, accordingly, a normative conception of manhood dominates over a network of subordinated, marginalized, and complicit masculinities within an intricate web of relations that sustain the overall subordination of women to men. Focusing on one representation of complicit masculinity in this article, I build on the …
After Isolation
In this article, we theoretically conceptualise the renegotiation of participatory action and activism through the formation of intellectual space that is self-reflective and upheld by what we metaphorically describe as mirrors between parallel worlds. Rethinking what activism is and how an individual relates to their social group is dependent on different levels of self-reflection, self-criticism and competing scales of insertion of other people…
Race and the Aesthetics of Alterity in Mahshid Amirshahi’s Dadeh Qadam-Kheyr
Focusing on black women Qadam-Kheyr and Sorur in Mahshid Amirshahi’s novel Dadeh Qadam-Kheyr (1999), this article examines literary representations of the African-Iranian presence, and provides a critique of race and slavery in twentieth-century Iran. In light of the history of the Iranian slave trade until 1928, and the reconstruction of race and gender identities along Eurocentric lines of nationalism in Iran, the novel under scrutiny is a dyna…
The Predicament of Complicity with Hegemonic Masculinity in Goli Taraghi's In Another Place
The theory of hegemonic masculinity has been influential in studies of men, masculinities, and gender relations. In most human societies, accordingly, a normative conception of manhood dominates over a network of subordinated, marginalized, and complicit masculinities within an intricate web of relations that sustain the overall subordination of women to men. Focusing on one representation of complicit masculinity in this article, I build on the …
Race and the Aesthetics of Alterity in Mahshid Amirshahi’s Dadeh Qadam-Kheyr
Focusing on black women Qadam-Kheyr and Sorur in Mahshid Amirshahi’s novel Dadeh Qadam-Kheyr (1999), this article examines literary representations of the African-Iranian presence, and provides a critique of race and slavery in twentieth-century Iran. In light of the history of the Iranian slave trade until 1928, and the reconstruction of race and gender identities along Eurocentric lines of nationalism in Iran, the novel under scrutiny is a dyna…
After Isolation
In this article, we theoretically conceptualise the renegotiation of participatory action and activism through the formation of intellectual space that is self-reflective and upheld by what we metaphorically describe as mirrors between parallel worlds. Rethinking what activism is and how an individual relates to their social group is dependent on different levels of self-reflection, self-criticism and competing scales of insertion of other people…
Lost in Paradise
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Violence and Bigotry
Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane is one of the most celebrated recent works of Irish fiction. It is set in 2053, and tells the story of a people living in an environment of constant conflict where senseless acts of violence and bigotry are prevalent. This surprisingly negative imagining of Ireland in the future cannot be ignored considering the modern history of the country. The contemporary history of Ireland is fraught with a long and desperate str…
Speculative fiction as “decolonial option”
Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965) is an Iranian novel in English, a speculative fiction written during the Allied occupation of Iran in World War II. In it, Mirdrekvandi, a migrant labourer who served a platoon of British and American soldiers stationed in Tehran, depicts the aftermath of World War III in the year 2084, when a regiment of Anglo American soldiers, followed by their servant Gunga Din, searches for Heaven across the …
Un-Learning the Anthropocene
In the twenty-first century, environmental issues and climate change have found their way into mainstream discourse, wherein ecofeminism can act as a transformative project. The subversive and visionary science fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), with its focus on gender and nature, has imaginatively cleared the road for the reader to conceive an alternative to the world of capitalist modernity, a world that has led…
The Decolonial Aesthetics of Failure in Ali Hatami's Haji Washington (1982)
Based freely on the writings of Hoseyn Qoli Khān Nuri, Persia's first ambassador to the United States (1888–1889), Haji Washington (1982) was Ali Hatami's first feature film following the Islamic Revolution. This article explores Hatami's departure from historical record in light of his aesthetic and political appropriation of Nuri's image as a failure. Viewing the film through a methodology that recasts failure as decolonial praxis beyond post/c…
From Postfeminism to Foucault
This paper examines Hamm's Becoming Medusa (2021) through the lenses of postfeminism and Foucault's theories of power and agency, foregrounding the significance of revisionist retelling. Since the 1970s, female protagonists like Medusa have gained popularity due to the postfeminist reimagining of Greek mythology. The reclaiming of Medusa's narrative has undergone a series of shifts in the perception of her character, moving from a position of vic…
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