Mahni Ghorashi
Biographic Data
| ID | 6803233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahni Ghorashi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahni |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghorashi |
| SIGNATURE | GHORASHI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Going Native
This essay won the 2005 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, American Section. This essay on Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno (1856) examines the author’s views on savagery not merely as ethnic composition but as a progression through the performative to become a product of language itself. Thus, locating the savage becomes less a task of highlighting cultural otherness than examining how one writes and speaks about the primitive. In Benito Ce…
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Going Native
This essay won the 2005 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, American Section. This essay on Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno (1856) examines the author’s views on savagery not merely as ethnic composition but as a progression through the performative to become a product of language itself. Thus, locating the savage becomes less a task of highlighting cultural otherness than examining how one writes and speaks about the primitive. In Benito Ce…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Drama (1 works) · History (1 works) · History (1 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Literature (1 works) · Performative utterance (1 works)