By Amirhossein Vafa
Reading literary and cinematic occasions among and past American and Persian literatures, this e-book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the worldwide flow of texts as global Literature. past the bounds of nationwide literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of worldwide literary discourse, the minor personality Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851)is a messenger who travels from the margins of the yankee literature canon to his Persian literary opposite numbers in modern Iranian fiction and movie, specifically, the agricultural girl Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s novel Missing Soluch (1980). In competition with Eurocentric remedies of worldwide literatures, and in reputation of efforts to recast the worldliness of yank and Persian literatures, this bookmaintains that aesthetic homes are embedded of their neighborhood histories and formative geographies.
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As part of the body of knowledge on Zoroastrianism since the Middle Ages, Orientalist conceptions of ancient Iran have informed two cultural imaginaries, leading in America to the fascination of Transcendentalists INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A READING OF MOBY-DICK BEYOND TEHRAN 25 with Asian religions and shaping back in Iran the Eurocentric sense of Persian supremacy among the emergent nationalists. Despite their shared roots, however, I argue that the establishment of Fassih’s title character as a masculine trope of nationalism is one means to hear Fedallah’s voice, particularly in light of the analogy that encapsulates The Story of Javid as a territorial narrative of Iranianness defying Moby-Dick as Ishmael’s outward narrative of Americanness.
Casanova, “Literature as a World,” 195. 41. Casanova, World Republic of Letters, 239. 42. , 238. 43. , 239. 44. Melville, Melville’s Shorts Novels, ed. Dan McCall (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001), 10. 45. Jonathan D. com/politics/ archive/2012/04/occupy-wall-streets-debt-to-melville/256482/. “By refusing to articulate specific demands,” Greenberg comments on the revival of Bartleby’s image during the Occupy movement, “Bartleby defies the very terms on which Wall Street does business. Melville thus provides INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A READING OF MOBY-DICK BEYOND TEHRAN 46.
Melville, Melville’s Shorts Novels, ed. Dan McCall (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001), 10. 45. Jonathan D. com/politics/ archive/2012/04/occupy-wall-streets-debt-to-melville/256482/. “By refusing to articulate specific demands,” Greenberg comments on the revival of Bartleby’s image during the Occupy movement, “Bartleby defies the very terms on which Wall Street does business. Melville thus provides INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A READING OF MOBY-DICK BEYOND TEHRAN 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54.