MESAAS FACULTY

PUBLICATIONS

Stanford University Press presents Persianate Selves by Mana Kia

by mesaas | Apr 24, 2020 | Publications |

For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and... Read more

Zed Books presents The Emperor is Naked by Hamid Dabashi

by mesaas | Apr 24, 2020 | Publications |

  The invention of the nation-state was the crowning achievement of the Sykes–Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France in 1916. As a geostrategic move to divide, defeat, and dismantle the Ottoman Empire during World War I, it was a great success and... Read more

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist The Many Worlds of R.B. More edited by Anupama Rao

by mesaas | Feb 18, 2020 | Publications |

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist The Many Worlds of R.B. More Satyendra More Edited by Anupama Rao Translated by Wandana Sonalkar R.B. More (1903–1972) was a leader in Babasaheb Ambedkar’s movement, a trade unionist and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).... Read more

Cambridge University Press presents Reversing the Colonial Gaze by Hamid Dabashi

by mesaas | Jan 24, 2020 | Publications |

Exploring the furthest reaches of the globe, Persian travelers from Iran and India travelled across Russian and Ottoman territories, to Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe and beyond. Remapping the world through their travelogues, Reversing the Colonial Gaze... Read more

The Disposition of Nature by Jennifer Wenzel

by mesaas | Jan 17, 2020 | Publications |

How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the planet, for better or worse? In this rich, original, and long awaited book, Jennifer Wenzel tackles the formal innovations, rhetorical appeals, and sociological imbrications of world literature that... Read more

Brill presents Ethiopia in Theory by Elleni Centime Zeleke

by mesaas | Nov 15, 2019 | Publications |

Between the years 1964 and 1974, Ethiopian post-secondary students studying at home, in Europe, and in North America produced a number of journals where they explored the relationship between social theory and social change within the project of building a socialist... Read more