Rebecca Ruth Gould

Biographic Data

ID668785
NAMERebecca Ruth Gould
GIVEN NAMESRebecca Ruth
FAMILY NAMEGould
SIGNATUREGOULD R R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Birmingham
ORCID0000-0002-2198-5406
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS68
TOTAL CITATIONS68
AUTHOR COUNT68
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Interrogating coexistence: Interfaith romance in Dorit Rabinyan’s All the Rivers and Claire Hajaj’s Ishmael’s Oranges

    Bilal Hamamra, Jumana Nedal et al.ARTICLENational Identities2026

    Drawing on Edward Said’s contrapuntal reading, this article offers a comparative analysis of interfaith romance in Dorit Rabinyan’s All the Rivers (Rabinyan, D. (2017a). All the rivers (J. Cohen, Trans.). Random House. Original work published 2014.) and Claire Hajaj’s Ishmael’s Oranges (Hajaj, C. (2014). Ishmael’s oranges (1st ed.). Oneworld Publications.). Bringing contrapuntal criticism into dialogue with memory studies, it argues that both nov…

  • More than a Metaphor: Area Studies on the Borderlands of Empires

    James Caron, Rebecca Ruth GouldARTICLEComparativ2025

    This article explores the particularly close relationship between area studies in the US and theUK, in both of which we (like many of our colleagues) have each worked, over the first decadesof the twenty-first century. Drawing on a blend of firsthand experience and published research,we find that area studies in the US has been shaped by geopolitical, especially defence, consid-erations. Area studies in the UK has been more susceptible to market-…

  • What does free speech have to do with Palestinian liberation? On resisting genocidal epistemicide

    Open AccessRebecca Ruth GouldARTICLEThird World Quarterly2025References: 19

  • The Hierarchy of Victims: Media Coverage and the Limits of Euro-American Solidarity

    Asala Mayaleh, Bilal Hamamra et al.ARTICLEJournal of Intercultural Studies2025Cited by: 2References: 15

    Further developing Stephen McCloskey’s argument that the war on Ukraine has revealed a hierarchy of victims that is rooted in racial and other forms of prejudice, we show how refugees from the Muslim world and Africa are stereotyped as potential criminals, rapists, and terrorists. European and North American responses to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reveal a stark and highly consequential double standard. Whereas Ukrainians receive sympathetic in…

  • Against the depoliticisation of Palestinian female shahids

    Bilal Hamamra, Rebecca Ruth Gould et al.ARTICLEThird World Quarterly2024Cited by: 1References: 24

    Palestinian women’s engagement with politics and their appropriation of conventionally masculine acts of martyrdom during the Second Intifada (2002–2005) have been subject to intense public debate, media scrutiny and contested cultural representations. This article, drawing on studies of terrorism as well as translation theory, examines first-hand accounts of acts of martyrdom by Palestinian women, which uphold Palestinian national and religious …

  • Hyper-exegesis in Persian translations of the Qu'ran: On the Disjointed Letters as Translational Challenges

    Open AccessKayvan Tahmasebian, Rebecca Ruth GouldARTICLEInternational Journal Middle East…2024References: 6

    Although translation and commentary are often treated as distinct, separable activities in literary and intellectual history, the Persian tradition of Qur'an exegesis demonstrates that they are best understood in relation to each other. Introducing the concept of hyper-exegesis as a mode of interpretation that approximates translation, we examine the dialectical relationship between translation and commentary by focusing on how Persian exegetes h…

  • Free speech and democracy in Palestinian universities: A call for parrhesiastic speech

    Bilal Hamamra, Rebecca Ruth GouldARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2024Cited by: 3References: 3

    This article examines the factors contributing to the suppression of free speech in Palestine, with a focus on the West Bank. We argue that anti-democratic politics and restricted public discourse in both public and academic spheres are mutually reinforced by the Israeli occupation and the Palestinian Authority. Despite education's potential as a tool of liberation, the ongoing cooperation between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, as well as …

  • Manuscripts don’t burn

    Open AccessRebecca Ruth GouldARTICLEIndex on Censorship2023

    OVIET LITERARY HISTORY is famous for its purges.Compared to the purges of 1921 and 1931, the purge of Georgian poets in 1937 was exceptional, not least due to the stature of the poets who were executed, as well as the absurdity of the accusations made against them.Within the space of a few months, Georgia's most original and talented writers and poets -Paolo Iashvili, Titsian Tabidze, Nikolo Mitsishvili and Mikheil Javakhishvili -were accused of …

  • Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages

    Matthew Reynolds, Andrés Claro et al.BOOKPrismatic Jane Eyre2023

    "Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than five hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism. Prismatic Jane Eyre develops the theoretical ramifications of this idea, and reads Brontë's novel in th…

  • Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine: A Strategic Perspective

    Malaka Shwaikh, Rebecca Ruth GouldBOOKPrison Hunger Strikes in Palestine2023

  • Afterword to Persianate Pasts, National Presents: Persian Literary and Cultural Production in the Twentieth Century

    Open AccessRebecca Ruth GouldARTICLEIranian Studies2022References: 3

    What is the relevance of the Persianate as a category of analysis in a world wherein even world literature continues to be framed as the literary history of discrete nations? First coined by historian Marshall Hodgson in 1974, Persianate initially referred to cultures such as Georgian, Armenian, Chaghatay, Urdu, and Ottoman, which were heavily influenced lexically and culturally by Persian without themselves being related to Persian linguisticall…

  • The Persian Prison Poem

    Rebecca Ruth GouldBOOKPersian Prison Poem2021

    The Persian Prison Poem is the first study of the prison poem genre ( habsiyyat ) across twelfth-century Central, South, and West Asia. While documenting the emergence of a concept of poetry as a form of political resistance, the book shows the profound entanglements of poetry and power across premodern Eurasia. This book traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre across twelfth-century Central, South, and West Asia. The…

  • The Persian Prison Poem

    Rebecca Ruth GouldBOOKThe Persian Prison Poem2021

    The first English-language study of the Persian prison poem Develops a new approach to genre, based on the political status of the prison poem Offers an unprecedented account of the interrelations of poetry and power in pre-modern literature Sheds new light on Muslim–Christian relations by documenting the multi-confessional orientation of many prison poems Relates the trajectory of the prison poem genre in pre-modern poetics to Iranian literary m…

  • Persian Prison Poem

    Rebecca Gould, Rebecca Ruth GouldBOOKPersian Prison Poem2021

  • Persian Prison Poem

    Rebecca Gould, Rebecca Ruth GouldBOOKPersian Prison Poem2021

  • Borderland Conflicts, Cosmological Complaints

    Rebecca Ruth GouldCHAPTERPersian Prison Poem2021

    Persian poets competed with each other through their literary output as they vied for patronage when the prison poem came into fashion in Shirvan in the northeastern Caucasus, under the aegis of the Shirvanshah dynasty. Khaqani Shirvani was at the centre of the Caucasus’ borderland literary culture, but he was far from the only prison poet in his milieu. Others included Mujir al-Din Baylaqani Falaki Shirvani, and Abu’l ʿ Ala Ganjevi. The tensions…

  • The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy

    Open AccessMaria Swanson, M L Swanson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Arabic Literature2021

    Drawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naimy’s literary output, we shed light on the role of multilingualism in generating literary identities and in shaping literary form. Naimy’s Russian poetry, we argue, furthers our understanding of the na…

  • The Temporality of Interlinear Translation

    Kayvan Tahmasebian, Rebecca Ruth GouldARTICLERepresentations2021Cited by: 1

    This article examines the temporality of interlinear translation through a case study of the rendering of Friedrich Hölderlin's poetry into Persian. We argue that, in its adherence to the word order of the original, the interlinear crib prioritizes the temporality of the instant (kairos) over the temporality of the linear sequence (chronos). Kairos is made manifest in the literalist translations of Hölderlin by the modernist Iranian translator-po…

  • Ajnabi, Or the Xenological Uncanny in Iranian Modernism

    Kayvan Tahmasebian, Rebecca Ruth GouldARTICLENew Literary History2021

    Within Iran, the transformation in the Islamic legal understanding of the foreign (ajnabi) into a political concept was accelerated by the encounter with Europe during the nineteenth century. The classical Iranian understanding of otherness as a domain fully demarcated from the self was replaced by an internalized other, resulting in what we call here the xenological uncanny. This article examines Iranian modernism through the lens of trauma theo…

  • The Temporality of Desire in Ḥasan Dihlavī’s ʿIshqnāma

    Rebecca Ruth Gould, Kayvan TahmasebianARTICLEJournal of Medieval Worlds2020

    This essay traces the conception of love and desire (ʿishq) in a Persian verse romance by the Indo-Persian poet Ḥasan Dihlavī, known as ʿIshqnāma (composed in 1301). ʿIshqnāma narrates a tragic and unconsummated love affair between a young Hindu couple. When the two protagonists immolate themselves in what is at once a reworking of the Indic custom of widow burning (sati) and an allusion to the deaths of the famed lovers Laylī and Majnūn, the poe…

  • Language, Memory, Massacre: The Legacy of Trauma among Chechen Diasporas

    Rebecca Ruth GouldARTICLEJournal of Literature and Trauma…2020

    Language, Memory, MassacreThe Legacy of Trauma among Chechen Diasporas1 Rebecca Ruth Gould (bio) In Black Skin, White Masks (1952), his harrowing account of the role played by racism in constituting a colonial subject's self-consciousness, Frantz Fanon declares that a colonized subject "who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language."2 Fanon's awareness of the violence and volition entailed in the use o…

  • Anticolonial Insurgency in the Caucasus

    Open AccessRebecca Ruth Gould, Rebecca GouldARTICLEGroniek2020

  • The Limits of Liberal Inclusivity: How Defining Islamophobia Normalizes Anti-Muslim Racism

    Open AccessRebecca Ruth GouldARTICLEJournal of Law and Religion2020

    Responding to recent calls made within the UK Parliament for a government-backed definition of Islamophobia, this article considers the unanticipated consequences of such proposals. I argue that, considered in the context of related efforts to regulate hate speech, the formulation and implementation of a government-sponsored definition will generate unforeseen harms for the Muslim community. To the extent that such a definition will fail to addre…

  • Russifying the Radīf: Lyric Translatability and the Russo-Persian Ghazal

    Open AccessRebecca Ruth GouldARTICLEComparative Critical Studies2020References: 2

    Building on Earl Miner's insight that the lyric is a ‘foundation genre’ of world literature, this article develops this idea in the context of thinking about lyric translatability. I do this by examining the Russo-Persian lyric, a hybrid literary genre that developed within Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Radically unlike its classical Persian prototype, the Russo-Persian ghazal is a case study in lyric translatabili…

  • The Ihra Definition of Antisemitism: Defining Antisemitism by Erasing Palestinians

    Open AccessRebecca Ruth GouldARTICLEThe Political Quarterly2020Cited by: 12References: 1

    The IHRA definition is one of the most contentious documents in the history of efforts to combat antisemitism. Although it first became well known in the UK as a result of disputes within the Labour Party, the definition reaches well beyond that context, and has been adopted by universities, city councils, and governments. With its intensive focus on the critique of Israel as a marker of antisemitism, the IHRA definition has been heavily implicat…