Parisa Vaziri
Biographic Data
| ID | 6357099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Parisa Vaziri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Parisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaziri |
| SIGNATURE | VAZIRI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in terms of both the geographical and the temporal. These new studies perform area studies-driven analyses of the representation of slavery from national or regional literary traditions that are not always considered by scholars of slavery and explore the diverse range of unfreedoms depicted …
False Differends
The Holocaust serves as a foundational critical resource in postwar philosophy. Interventions into the logic of its exemplarity tend to treat exemplarity as a matter of archival selection that ignores earlier histories of genocide and slavery. A recent example is Alexander Weheliye’s critique of Giorgio Agamben (Habeaus Viscus), which seeks to restitute racial slavery as a theoretically significant moment of biological precarity. In a continuatio…
Antiblack Joy
Maryam Khakipour’s 2004 The Joymakers and its 2008 sequel Shadi form an exemplary site for examining the dissemination and translation of Persian blackface across time, space, and media. The transmediality of sīyāh bāzī reveals a universal familiarity with the practice of blackface comedy that disrupts commonplace assumptions about its geographical and historical itinerary
Thaumaturgic, Cartoon Blackface
This essay explores how a particular medium—the comic—exposes the limitations of conventional narratives about sīyāh bāzī (Persian blackface) and hājī fīrūz (a famous blackface figure). Many commentators disavow the racial connotations of sīyāh bāzī and hājī fīrūz, concocting pseudo-historical genealogies that link the improvisatory tradition and figure to pre-Islamic practices; commentators thus repress the tradition’s obvious resonances with th…
Black Execration. A review of Calvin Warren, Ontological Terror
Black ExecrationA review of Calvin Warren, Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation Parisa Vaziri (bio) Warren, Calvin. Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation. Duke UP, 2018. Plumbing Frantz Fanon's frequently cited but not always well elaborated pronouncement that "ontology does not allow us to understand the being of the Black man" (90), Calvin Warren's Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipatio…
On “Saidiya”
This article attempts to address the contemporary turn to astrophysics lexicons in Black feminism by bringing together scholarship on Indian Ocean slavery and Black studies. Through an experimental reading of encounter with Indian Ocean and African slavery in Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother, the article suggests that exhaustions of representation manifested in the turn to black theories of the subatomic reveal an absolute nonrecuperability of …
Blackness and the Metaethics of the Object
Speak and break speech like a madrig, like a matrix (material, maternal
On “Saidiya”
This article attempts to address the contemporary turn to astrophysics lexicons in Black feminism by bringing together scholarship on Indian Ocean slavery and Black studies. Through an experimental reading of encounter with Indian Ocean and African slavery in Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother, the article suggests that exhaustions of representation manifested in the turn to black theories of the subatomic reveal an absolute nonrecuperability of …
Blackness and the Metaethics of the Object
Speak and break speech like a madrig, like a matrix (material, maternal
Black Execration. A review of Calvin Warren, Ontological Terror
Black ExecrationA review of Calvin Warren, Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation Parisa Vaziri (bio) Warren, Calvin. Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation. Duke UP, 2018. Plumbing Frantz Fanon's frequently cited but not always well elaborated pronouncement that "ontology does not allow us to understand the being of the Black man" (90), Calvin Warren's Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipatio…
On “Saidiya”
This article attempts to address the contemporary turn to astrophysics lexicons in Black feminism by bringing together scholarship on Indian Ocean slavery and Black studies. Through an experimental reading of encounter with Indian Ocean and African slavery in Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother, the article suggests that exhaustions of representation manifested in the turn to black theories of the subatomic reveal an absolute nonrecuperability of …
Thaumaturgic, Cartoon Blackface
This essay explores how a particular medium—the comic—exposes the limitations of conventional narratives about sīyāh bāzī (Persian blackface) and hājī fīrūz (a famous blackface figure). Many commentators disavow the racial connotations of sīyāh bāzī and hājī fīrūz, concocting pseudo-historical genealogies that link the improvisatory tradition and figure to pre-Islamic practices; commentators thus repress the tradition’s obvious resonances with th…
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery reveals the way recent scholarship in the field of slavery studies has taken a more expansive turn, in terms of both the geographical and the temporal. These new studies perform area studies-driven analyses of the representation of slavery from national or regional literary traditions that are not always considered by scholars of slavery and explore the diverse range of unfreedoms depicted …
False Differends
The Holocaust serves as a foundational critical resource in postwar philosophy. Interventions into the logic of its exemplarity tend to treat exemplarity as a matter of archival selection that ignores earlier histories of genocide and slavery. A recent example is Alexander Weheliye’s critique of Giorgio Agamben (Habeaus Viscus), which seeks to restitute racial slavery as a theoretically significant moment of biological precarity. In a continuatio…
Antiblack Joy
Maryam Khakipour’s 2004 The Joymakers and its 2008 sequel Shadi form an exemplary site for examining the dissemination and translation of Persian blackface across time, space, and media. The transmediality of sīyāh bāzī reveals a universal familiarity with the practice of blackface comedy that disrupts commonplace assumptions about its geographical and historical itinerary
History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Blackface (2 works)