Race and the Aesthetics of Alterity in Mahshid Amirshahi’s Dadeh Qadam-Kheyr
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9979972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amirhossein Vafa (0000-0002-0261-5266, Shiraz University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141-160 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00210862.2017.1350095 |
| OpenAlex | W2739378666 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
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 dynamic site of struggle between an “Iranian” literary discourse and its “non-Persian” Others. The “aesthetics of alterity” at the heart of the text is, therefore, the interplay between the repressed title-character Qadam-Kheyr and the resilient minor character Sorur, each registering Amirshahi’s artistic intervention into a forgotten corner of Iranian history
Aesthetics · Alterity · Art · Character (mathematics · History of literature · Literature · Nationalism · Persian · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Scrutiny · Sociology · Theology · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Turkey's Politics and Society
The One vs. the Many
Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister
Playing in the dark
Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism
The Qajar Pact
Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards
The Mediatory Guile of the Nanny in Persian Romance
Self-Orientalization and Dislocation
The Negative Images of Blacks In Some Medieval Iranian Writings
African presence in Iran
Age, gender and slavery in and out of the Persian harem
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |