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ID157840
Title ProperRace and the aesthetics of alterity in mahshid amirshahi’s dadeh qadam-kheyr
LanguageENG
AuthorVafa, Amirhossein
Summary / Abstract (Note)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.
`In' analytical NoteIranian Studies Vol. 51, No.1; Jan 2018: p.141-160
Journal SourceIranian Studies Vol: 51 No 1
Key WordsRace ;  Aesthetics of Alterity ;  Mahshid Amirshahi ;  Dadeh Qadam-Kheyr


 
 
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