Farah Ghaderi
Biographic Data
| ID | 642463 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Farah Ghaderi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Farah |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghaderi |
| SIGNATURE | GHADERI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Urmia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5377-7863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping Arabs and Their Culture in Gertrude Bell’s Syria
This article fleshes out the representation of Arabs and their culture in Gertrude Bell’s Syria: The Desert and the Sown (1907). Even though this travel book has already been examined, the nuanced ways in which Bell employs the narrative space to express her views and her varied responses to the different customs and manners she encounters during her travels have not been thoroughly explored. We argue that Bell’s uncertain subject position while …
An Analysis of Social and Cultural Capital in Don Delillo's White Noise
White Noise is Don DeLillo’s eighth novel which was published in 1985. The novel has been scrutinized by many scholars from different schools of thought. In this article, we try to read White Noise in light of Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of different types of capital and make an effort to take note of representations of each of these types. Nevertheless, since the biggest contribution Bourdieu makes to discussions regarding capital is his explanati…
Performing the Self through Orientalizing the Kurds in Isabella Bird’s Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
This article fleshes out the various ways Isabella Bird performs the self in her travel account, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891), mainly in her engagement with the Kurdish people. Deploying Judith Butler’s theory of performativity of gender, we argue that travel writing is empowering for Bird because it offers her a viable platform to perform a variety of selves through which she can voice her complicated and nuanced socio-political views…
An ecoGothic reading of Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and 'Roger Malvin's Burial
This article offers an ecoGothic reading of Hawthorne’s ‘Young Goodman Brown’ (1835) and ‘Roger Malvin’s Burial’ (1832). It fleshes out human-nature encounters in the selected short stories to revisit the common response to nature in Hawthorne scholarship as a passive element reflecting characters’ state of mind. We argue that the wilderness in both short stories is presented as a malevolent and dystopian space which is actively resistant and hos…
Merritt-Hawkes’ Becoming-Persian in Persia
Merritt-Hawkes’ much-neglected travel narrative, Persia: Romance and Reality, offers a very interesting account of her journey to Persia in 1935 and of her interactions with Persian women. Unlike her male counterparts, she is allowed entry in to Persian domestic spaces, which has proved productive in her active engagements with and opening up to the women. Drawing on a Deleuzo-Guattarian framework with a focus on the concepts of assemblage, lines…
Mapping Persia and the Persians in Freya Stark’s the Valley of Assassins and Robert Byron’s the Road to Oxiana
This paper explores representations of Persia and the Persians in Freya Stark’s The Valley of Assassins (1934) and Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana (1937). Although these two travel accounts have been the subject of a few studies, the focus has been mostly on their architectural and stylistic aspects. Drawing on Orientalism, travel and gender theories, this article aims to offer a comparative look at Byron’s and Stark’s travel books in unravelli…
Iran and Postcolonial Studies
Even though Iran has never been formally colonized, a brief glance at its history reveals western powers’ imperialistic tendencies toward and colonialist impositions on it. By providing a brief overview of Iran–West encounters since the nineteenth century, this essay sets the stage for understanding how postcolonialism is relevant to the Iranian context. It then attempts to trace the main elements which have conditioned the reception and developm…
Appropriating Difference in Ella C. Sykes'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle
This article teases out Ella Sykes’ responses to the differences she encounters in the contact zone in Persia in her much-neglected travel narrative Through Persia on a Side-Saddle (1898). The authors argue that Ella Sykes’ position/self-positioning in relation to difference is shaped by various, and at times opposing, factors, which contribute to the ambivalent nature of her representations of Persia and its people in her travel narrative. The p…
Exoticism in Gertrude Bell's Persian Pictures
Victorian travelers in colonial contexts encountered differences in landscape, mores and manners, society, politics and culture, among other things, and registered their responses to the places visited in their published travel books for the home audience. Postcolonial critics contend that exoticism, i.e., a Western traveler's response to and description of the differences encountered in the context of travel, was deeply informed by the asymmetri…
The Exotic Portrayal of Women in Isabella Bird Bishop's Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
Isabella Bird Bishop's Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan is presented as an objective picture of Persia, purportedly reflecting eye-witness accounts. Setting the narrative in its historical context and employing the concept of exoticism, this paper aims to unearth its subtle imperialist underpinnings. It argues that Bird's portrayal of Persian women and their mores and manners as exotic is an effect of a mode of representation which depicts and co…
Exoticism in Gertrude Bell's Persian Pictures
Victorian travelers in colonial contexts encountered differences in landscape, mores and manners, society, politics and culture, among other things, and registered their responses to the places visited in their published travel books for the home audience. Postcolonial critics contend that exoticism, i.e., a Western traveler's response to and description of the differences encountered in the context of travel, was deeply informed by the asymmetri…
The Exotic Portrayal of Women in Isabella Bird Bishop's Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
Isabella Bird Bishop's Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan is presented as an objective picture of Persia, purportedly reflecting eye-witness accounts. Setting the narrative in its historical context and employing the concept of exoticism, this paper aims to unearth its subtle imperialist underpinnings. It argues that Bird's portrayal of Persian women and their mores and manners as exotic is an effect of a mode of representation which depicts and co…
The Exotic Portrayal of Women in Isabella Bird Bishop's Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
Isabella Bird Bishop's Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan is presented as an objective picture of Persia, purportedly reflecting eye-witness accounts. Setting the narrative in its historical context and employing the concept of exoticism, this paper aims to unearth its subtle imperialist underpinnings. It argues that Bird's portrayal of Persian women and their mores and manners as exotic is an effect of a mode of representation which depicts and co…
Exoticism in Gertrude Bell's Persian Pictures
Victorian travelers in colonial contexts encountered differences in landscape, mores and manners, society, politics and culture, among other things, and registered their responses to the places visited in their published travel books for the home audience. Postcolonial critics contend that exoticism, i.e., a Western traveler's response to and description of the differences encountered in the context of travel, was deeply informed by the asymmetri…
Appropriating Difference in Ella C. Sykes'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle
This article teases out Ella Sykes’ responses to the differences she encounters in the contact zone in Persia in her much-neglected travel narrative Through Persia on a Side-Saddle (1898). The authors argue that Ella Sykes’ position/self-positioning in relation to difference is shaped by various, and at times opposing, factors, which contribute to the ambivalent nature of her representations of Persia and its people in her travel narrative. The p…
Iran and Postcolonial Studies
Even though Iran has never been formally colonized, a brief glance at its history reveals western powers’ imperialistic tendencies toward and colonialist impositions on it. By providing a brief overview of Iran–West encounters since the nineteenth century, this essay sets the stage for understanding how postcolonialism is relevant to the Iranian context. It then attempts to trace the main elements which have conditioned the reception and developm…
Mapping Persia and the Persians in Freya Stark’s the Valley of Assassins and Robert Byron’s the Road to Oxiana
This paper explores representations of Persia and the Persians in Freya Stark’s The Valley of Assassins (1934) and Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana (1937). Although these two travel accounts have been the subject of a few studies, the focus has been mostly on their architectural and stylistic aspects. Drawing on Orientalism, travel and gender theories, this article aims to offer a comparative look at Byron’s and Stark’s travel books in unravelli…
Merritt-Hawkes’ Becoming-Persian in Persia
Merritt-Hawkes’ much-neglected travel narrative, Persia: Romance and Reality, offers a very interesting account of her journey to Persia in 1935 and of her interactions with Persian women. Unlike her male counterparts, she is allowed entry in to Persian domestic spaces, which has proved productive in her active engagements with and opening up to the women. Drawing on a Deleuzo-Guattarian framework with a focus on the concepts of assemblage, lines…
An ecoGothic reading of Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and 'Roger Malvin's Burial
This article offers an ecoGothic reading of Hawthorne’s ‘Young Goodman Brown’ (1835) and ‘Roger Malvin’s Burial’ (1832). It fleshes out human-nature encounters in the selected short stories to revisit the common response to nature in Hawthorne scholarship as a passive element reflecting characters’ state of mind. We argue that the wilderness in both short stories is presented as a malevolent and dystopian space which is actively resistant and hos…
Performing the Self through Orientalizing the Kurds in Isabella Bird’s Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
This article fleshes out the various ways Isabella Bird performs the self in her travel account, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan (1891), mainly in her engagement with the Kurdish people. Deploying Judith Butler’s theory of performativity of gender, we argue that travel writing is empowering for Bird because it offers her a viable platform to perform a variety of selves through which she can voice her complicated and nuanced socio-political views…
An Analysis of Social and Cultural Capital in Don Delillo's White Noise
White Noise is Don DeLillo’s eighth novel which was published in 1985. The novel has been scrutinized by many scholars from different schools of thought. In this article, we try to read White Noise in light of Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of different types of capital and make an effort to take note of representations of each of these types. Nevertheless, since the biggest contribution Bourdieu makes to discussions regarding capital is his explanati…
Mapping Arabs and Their Culture in Gertrude Bell’s Syria
This article fleshes out the representation of Arabs and their culture in Gertrude Bell’s Syria: The Desert and the Sown (1907). Even though this travel book has already been examined, the nuanced ways in which Bell employs the narrative space to express her views and her varied responses to the different customs and manners she encounters during her travels have not been thoroughly explored. We argue that Bell’s uncertain subject position while …
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