Gender, space and counter-conduct: Iranian women’s heterotopic imaginations in Ramita Navai’s <i>City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran</i>

Asl, Moussa Pourya

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2021.1975100

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“…The exclusionary policies have similarly reinforced the patriarchal power within the family structure to control women. Most women show their discontent with a family structure in which men are in charge of women by both marriage laws and what religious principles indoctrinate (Afary, 2009;Asl, 2018;Asl, 2021). The demand for women's obedience, modesty, and self-sacrifice concerning their male guardians makes the family structure and milieu restricting and prison-like.…”

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“…Based on the top 10 negative sentences shown in Tables 8 and 9 obtained from Vader and textBlob, respectively, the dominant feeling of the Iranians is against torture, which they have experienced during the war, in prison, in the house, or in being raped. It is because women in Iran do not have equal social and political rights (Asl, 2019(Asl, , 2020(Asl, , 2021. In addition, the experiences of mental and physical torture have traumatized the victims.…”

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A Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis Model for Detection and Visualization of Themes in Literary Texts

Chu¹,

Keikhosrokiani²,

Asl³

2022

JST

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Despite the growing emergence of new computer analytic software programs, the adoption and application of computer-based data mining and processing methods remain sparse in literary studies and analyses. This study proposes a text analytics lifecycle to detect and visualize the prevailing themes in a corpus of literary texts. Two objectives are to be pursued: First, the study seeks to apply a Topic Modeling approach with selected algorithms of LDA, LSI, NMF, and HDP that can effectively detect the recurring topics about the major themes developed in the dataset. Second, the project aims to apply a Sentiment Analysis model that can analyze the polarity of writers’ discourse on the detected thematic topics with the algorithms of Vader and TextBlob. The implementation of Topic Modeling has detected six thematic topics of sex, family, revolution, imprisonment, intellectual, and death. The adoption of the Sentiment Analysis model also revealed that the feelings attached to all the identified themes are largely negative sentiments expressed towards socio-political issues.

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Section: Objective 1: Topic Modelingmentioning

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A Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis Model for Detection and Visualization of Themes in Literary Texts

Chu¹,

Keikhosrokiani²,

Asl³

2022

JST

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“…The parallel division has served not only to impose certain traits on colonizers and colonizing subjects but also to structure the way one perceives the world and differentiate self from the other. The colonized is traditionally portrayed as the "other" through discourses of primitivism and barbarianism in the process of characterizing the colonizer as "self" (Ashcroft, Griffiths, & Tiffin, 2003;Asl, 2021;Hadi & Asl, 2021). Hence, the connection between "self" and "other" fits to imply Hegelian Master-Slave vernacular.…”

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A Non-Orientalist Representation of Pakistan in Contemporary Western Travelogues

Pourgharib

Hamkhiyal

Asl

2022

gema

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Travel writings by Western visitors of the Orient have often been rebuffed for disseminating a stereotypical discourse on the people and the culture of the East. The rationale for the collective dismissal of such narratives, however, is built upon a limited canon whose myopic perspective creates a monolithic Orient. It is argued that since this dominant discourse leaves nearly no room for non-conformism, it has conveniently overlooked a large body of travel writings of western writers that adopt a non-Orientalist approach to appreciate cultural differences. To pursue this argument, the present study aims to explore Jürgen Wasim Frembgen's At the Shrine of the Red Sufi: Five Days & Nights on Pilgrimage in Pakistan (2011) to examine how the autobiographical narrator's travel accounts present an alternative narrative about the East that subverts prevailing discourses on travelogues as apparatuses to reinforce colonial/Western norms. To achieve this goal, the study benefits from Debbie Lisle's (2006) theories on the cosmopolitan vision of a travel writer as well as Edward Said's (1978) theory of Orientalism. Frembgen's cosmopolitan vision throughout the narrative neutralizes negative perceptions about Muslim communities in Pakistan as uncultivated and declining by offering a counter view of the country that underscores its vibrant and positively transformative qualities. The celebration of Eastern culture and religion in Frembgen's travel writing indicates the need for the re-examination of the Orientalist thought that has, wittingly or unwittingly, dismissed a significant segment of western works about the east in order to legitimize its theoretical and hypothetical cases.

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“…By analyzing the dynamics of identity formation in Roy's novel, this article contributes to the feminist critique (Asl, 2021;Butler, 2004;Mohanty, 2003;West & Zimmerman, 2009) that calls attention to the micropolitics of subjectivity and struggle, as well as an understanding of gender as an attained attribute of situated conduct (Asl, 2018(Asl, , 2019. In this sense, gender is perceived as "an accomplishment" rather than prescribed psychological and behavioral categories with biological criteria.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Gender and Sexual Identity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Cixousian Analysis of Hijra’s Resistance and Remaking of the Self

Anuar

Asl

2021

JSSH

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Hijra is a distinctive South Asia known for their gender and sexual difference and associated with their transgender and intersex identities. Otherwise known as transwomen, they are traditionally subjected to prejudices and embedded within narratives of exclusion, discrimination, and the subculture. As a result, Hijras are typically perceived as isolated, abject, and passive victims who remain social and economic peripheries. Concerning the stereotypical image of hijras, this study explores Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happinessecriture féminine, this study examines characters’ contestations and alterations of existing definitions of sex and gender. This framework allows for a manifestation of gender flexibility and feminine writing as a tool for self-emancipation. Both protagonists Anjum and Tilo, illustrate that hijras are not predetermined but are formulated in a complex process of a conscious rewriting of the self. While the former character resists heteropatriarchal normativity through her conscious alterations of the phallogocentric structure of her Urdu language, the latter defies societal conventions of family and marriage with unorthodox views and actions that are materialized in the writing of her story.

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Gender, space and counter-conduct: Iranian women’s heterotopic imaginations in Ramita Navai’s City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death, and the Search for Truth in Tehran

Cited by 12 publications

References 24 publications

A Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis Model for Detection and Visualization of Themes in Literary Texts

A Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis Model for Detection and Visualization of Themes in Literary Texts

A Non-Orientalist Representation of Pakistan in Contemporary Western Travelogues

Gender and Sexual Identity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Cixousian Analysis of Hijra’s Resistance and Remaking of the Self

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