Drafts by Sohrab Mosahebi
It has been almost 40 years since Spivak first presented “Can the subaltern speak?” at the Univer... more It has been almost 40 years since Spivak first presented “Can the subaltern speak?” at the University of Illinois in 1983 and the subaltern still cannot speak. The main reason of this lack of opportunity to speak is something that Spivak herself has written about extensively and that is the concept of “Neocolonialism”. In this essay, which is constructed based on my first-hand observations in Canada as a person of colour in an autotheoretical way and conducted through a critical review of the scholarly literature, I try to pinpoint two of the common practices of today’s White culture which I claim are contributing to this neocolonialism: Political Correctness and Cancel Culture. After a review of the definitions and discussions around these concepts, I argue based on argumentative deduction that both these practices, one mainly through assumptive whiteness and another mainly through authoritarian silencing, ultimately lead us to the expansion of racialism and cultural imperialism and empower the Western project of neocolonialism.
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Feminism as a socio-political concept is an important movement related to the trial of women for ... more Feminism as a socio-political concept is an important movement related to the trial of women for breaking the gender gap in every aspects of life. This study aims at portraying the feminine attitudes and emotions that cause hopefulness in women's life and creation of their own literature through surveying the selected novel of the famous female novelist, Emily Bronte. This novel signifies the internal problems of women, namely, love, muliebrity, passion, and feelings of women toward living in the world of patriarchy as minor members of society. Eighteenth century is always considered as an era of restricted rules and laws for women who were not able to liberate themselves from dogmatic world of men. This article manifests emancipation of socalled forbidden emotions of women by focusing upon the feminization of the eighteenth century characters of Wuthering Heights and creation of a new framework for next generations of female novelists and writers with no limitation in portraying their femininity. Feminism as a proper solution and universal issue investigates the controversial problems of women in creating and expressing their feelings by examine Bronte's masterpiece.
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Thesis Chapters by Sohrab Mosahebi
Kharazmi University Library, 2021
This Study tries to look into Solmaz Sharif´s poems to see how she deconstructs the Political Eup... more This Study tries to look into Solmaz Sharif´s poems to see how she deconstructs the Political Euphemism of American military terminology and how it leads to the emergence of Intergenerational Trauma in her poetry. The purpose of the study is to have a new reading of Sharif’s 2016 poetry collection, Look, through the lenses of postcolonialism, poststructuralism and trauma studies. In this reading, it will be discussed that what Sharif is doing in her poetry is actually a form of deconstructing the euphemistic language of U.S department of defense. Moreover, this study contributes to the research field, by suggesting that there is also a form of “Intergenerational Trauma” depicted in these poems. Getting help mainly from Derrida’s deconstruction and a network of theories around intergenerational trauma (mostly by Irene Visser and Steph Crap), the ultimate question of the study will be how Sharif diagnostically deconstructs the language of war and copes with Intergenerational Trauma. Sharif turns political euphemism for violence into erotic innuendo while looking into the processes of deletion and substitution in language; this aspect is similar to Derrida’s ideas about the violence of language and the psychoanalytic necessity of writing. Sharif is using Derrida’s deconstruction of euphemistic language by essentially questioning and even reversing American binary oppositions (e.g. Non-Muslim/Terrorist). Finally, through a look into the discourse of war and diaspora, she is representing a post 9/11 and personal form of “Intergenerational Trauma”.
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University of Tehran Library Archive, 2018
خودکارآمدی به باور افراد درباره تواناییشان در گرفتن تصمیمات کاری و تحصیلی و نتایج مورد انتظار آن... more خودکارآمدی به باور افراد درباره تواناییشان در گرفتن تصمیمات کاری و تحصیلی و نتایج مورد انتظار آن از نظر افراد نیز اشاره دارد، و ذهنآگاه بودن به صورت توجه مستقیم و بیپرده به لحظه کنونی و دلسپردن به تجربه حاضر و رصد کردن آن تعریف شده است. هدف این پژوهش تعیین نقش تابآوری و شخصیت در رابطه ذهنآگاهی بر خودکارآمدی عمومی دانشجویان مدیریت دانشگاه تهران است. برای اینکار نمونهای متشکل از 311نفر از دانشجویان گرفته شد که به چهار پرسشنامه تابآوری کانر-دیویدسن، پرسشنامه جدید خودکارآمدی عمومی، مقیاس توجه ذهنآگاهانه و پرسشنامه شخصیت پنج عامل بزرگ پاسخ دادند. برای تحلیل دادهها از نرمافزار های SPSS و Smart PLS استفاده شد. نتایج نشان داد که ذهنآگاهی به طور معناداری بر خودکارآمدی عمومی تاثیر دارد و تابآوری این رابطه را میانجیگر میکند. با این وجود شخصیت تنها در بُعد گشودگی به تجربه تعدیلکننده رابطه تابآوری و خودکارآمدی عمومی است و در بقیه روابط نقشی ایفا نمیکند.
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Conference Presentations by Sohrab Mosahebi
Travelling Light: The Graduate Conference By Western University Department of Languages and Cultures, 2022
They say, “Home is where the heart is”. It seems like a simple and encompassing definition. Howev... more They say, “Home is where the heart is”. It seems like a simple and encompassing definition. However, for many, “home”, “heart” and even the relationship between them can be so bizarre and incomprehensible that they even become unsettling. Freud famously defines Uncanny as “that class of frightening which leads back to what is known of old and long familiar.” In other words, where home cannot find its way back to the heart as it should. In this paper, I want to argue that the Persian short story collection, Cherā Tāriki Rā Khodāy-e Khod Nakonam?, loosely translated by the author of this paper to Why Shan’t I Worship the Darkness?(2021), is exactly a depiction of that unsettling state of misplacement between the home and the heart. It is the debut collection published by Afghan-Iranian writer Ma’soumeh Jafari and is considered by Iranian writer and literary critic Pazhand Soleimani as a work in the field of literature of diaspora. Although as a new work, written in Persian, there is not literature around this collection, it has so much to offer. I will argue through a close reading of two of the stories that the writer has used Uncanny as a literary device to talk about two main themes of “Home” and “Identity.”
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Conference of Canadian Comparative Literature Association, 2023
Mindfulness is defined as a quality in individuals which enables them to be non-judgementally pre... more Mindfulness is defined as a quality in individuals which enables them to be non-judgementally present at the moment of experience. Poets, more than any other individual, are in need of experiencing the internal and external events. What Robert Frost finds through American Modernism, Sohrab Sepehri discovers in Persian mystic-imagism. Both poets are poets of nature and have deep introspective poems, three of which by Frost and three by Sepehri are chosen to be studied. In this article, the authors seek to find the similarities and differences of the manner of representation of “mindfulness” in these works. This psychological concept, which is rooted in Buddhist philosophy, has five main dimensions, traces of which is attempted to be found, and the manner of representation of mindfulness in the poems is aimed to be studied. The authors concluded that through very similar experiences, Frost and Sepehri get two different results, which can be traced back to their cultural background.
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Psychological resilience is defined as a quality in individuals which enables them to face advers... more Psychological resilience is defined as a quality in individuals which enables them to face adversities with a positive attitude. Poets, like any other individual, feel the loss, hope, faith, sublimity, and melancholy, and also experience resilience. What William Wordsworth finds through English Romanticism, Sohrab Sepehri discovers in Persian mystic-imagism. Both poets have some deep philosophical and introspective poems, from which “The Prelude” by Wordsworth and “Water’s Footsteps” by Sepehri seem the most comparable, as both delve into the psychological and ontological encounters of the poet with the world. In this article, we seek to find the similarities and differences in the manner of representation of “psychological resilience” in these works. This psychological concept has seventeen main constituents which we attempt to find their traces, and study how resilience is represented in the poems. Finally, three categorical resilience themes (Personal, Social, and Transcendental) are developed by the authors of this study, for the purpose of comparing the two poets.
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Virtual Presentation at the University of Ottawa Grad Conference, 2022
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Proceedings of The 5th World Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, Oct 28, 2022
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