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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 541-553, July 2026.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’
German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 311-322, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
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A Comparative Study of Story and Narrative Elements in Classical and Contemporary Persian Narrative Ghazal [PDF]
Literary ArtsIn the classic Persian narrative ghazals, in addition to expressing romantic issues, there is also a strong presence in mysticism, and examples of it can be seen in the Attar and Rumi’s divan. In contemporary Persian poetry, poets such as Simin Behbahani
Mahdi Rostami, Alimohammad Mahmoudi
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Imagination Will Not Be Automized: On AI Image Generators and Epistemic Oppression
Constellations, EarlyView.
Sarah Abel
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The soul of the soil: Unearthing a Nation's eco‐empathy through 1200 years of Persian poetry
People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1987-2002, June 2026.Abstract Cultivating a profound sense of connection with the natural world, conceptualized as eco‐empathy, is increasingly recognized as a vital precursor to effective environmental stewardship. While scientific data frame ecological crises, literary traditions offer a unique archive for tracing the history of this empathetic bond. This study positions
Isa Esfandiarpour‐Boroujeni +7 more
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A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles’ Defense of the Poetic Style of Nimā Yūshij [PDF]
مطالعات بینرشتهای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانیThis article aims to indicate how Akhavān-Sāles- the greatest defender of Nimāei poetry- introduced Nimāei poetry as the superior poetry and norm against the rival and sometimes contradictory poetic currents of his period.
Kulthum Miriasl
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Ghalib Dehlavi’s Ghazals Beyond the Orient [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2016 The aim of this study is to demonstrate why and how the Persian classical poetic form Ghazal has changed into a commonly used literary genre in North America during the last thirty years of the twentieth century.
Neda Alizadeh Kashani
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Doctoring Dobbs: Erasure art as anthropological practice
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract This essay examines erasure art as an anthropological practice through Doctoring Dobbs, a multimodal project responding to the US Supreme Court's overturning of federal abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. In creative practice, erasure removes material from an existing source to reveal something new.
Risa Cromer
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A Comparative Study of Kurdish and Persian Literature on Grounds of Prosody and Meter
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2015 In terms of scope and diversity of topic as well as historical antiquity, literature of the Middle East is outstanding among world literatures, and Persian literature, in particular, has acquired a special reputation in this regard.
Seyed As’ad Sheikh Ahmadi
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CRISIS OF READER IN THE PERSIAN POETRY OF THE NINETIES WITH EMPHASIS ON RHETORICAL-LINGUISTIC REASONS [PDF]
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2017 In the history of the Iran contemporary literature, the flow of poetry, known as the 70s, has a special place. Faces such as Ali Abdul Razaei, Mehrdad Fallah, Behzad Khayat, On one hand , and Reza Baraheni and his students, on the other hand, New ...
Baloo Farzad A., Bafekr Fateme H.
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