Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed by Dabashi, Hamid;

Rövid leírás:

This is the story of Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed, an exploration of when and where ancient myths become metonymic in varied forms of contemporary cultural and aesthetic representations.

Hosszú leírás:

Using Iran as an example of an ancient civilization with a sustained course of continuity all the way to the present time, this book moves towards a philosophical reflection on the relationship between what we see and feel today when engaging with art, literature and film and what we have otherwise deeply buried in the forgotten layers of our collective consciousness from time immemorial.

Tartalomjegyzék:

List of Figures

Introduction: The World of Pure Verisimilitude

From Truth to Verisimilitude

Under the Debris of the Fourth Wall

Ostranenie and the Arrested Mimesis of the Body

Framing the Performances, Spacing Performativity

The Liberating World of Pure Verisimilitudes

Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed

PART I MEN AND WOMEN

1 Men without Women

Lumpens, Intellectuals, Clerics

Searching for Deeper Roots

From Lumpenism to Fascism

Inorganic Intellectuals

Lumpenism in Cinema

The Mythic Gap of a Gender Imbalance

2 Women without Men

The Creative Constitution of a Public Persona

Knowledge of the Unknown

Seven Shades of Memory

Rethinking the Human in Literary Humanism

Gleichschaltung

Writing Women into Humanism

PART II MASCULINE AND FEMININE

3 Masculine/Feminine

Men of Honour and Fear of Castration

The Metaphoric Body

The Colonised Masculinity

Dash Akol: The Mythic Man Idolised

Contingency of the Body

In Search of ‘Authenticity’

The Dialectics of the Body’s Being-in-the-World

Sexual Thralldom

Mutilating the Feminine Body

Where Men are Men ...

... And Women are Not Men

4 Feminine/Masculine

Daybreak

Women at Work

The Mythically Pregnant Reality

Re-Mythologising the Real

Mythologies

Ritual Birth

Urban Legend

Meanwhile, the Ma’arefi Family ...

Metonymic Mythologies of the Present

5 Liberation in Three Moves

The Realism of the Real

Fear of the Real

Towards a Neo-Realism

Reality under Erasure

The Taste of Cherry

The Bread and the Flower Pot

Baran and the Native

6 To Be at Home in the World

Dis-Engaging the Metaphysical

To De-Oedipalise the Oedipal

Re-Configuring the Body

Trusting the Camera

Subjectivity, Sexuality and the Imaginary

Towards a Counter-Symbolic

Visions of the Invisible

‘Semiotic Chora’

PART III HOME AND EXILE

7 The Cinema of Solitude

A Nocturnal Journey

Ice as a Floating Signifier

Simple, Solitary and Serene

The Site of the Solitary Unknowing Subject

8 The Ballad of Occidental Exile

The Exile as the Unknowing Subject

Exilic Cinema

Exile on Exile: Amir Naderi on Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Amir Naderi’s New York

Born Again in New York

A Migratory and Mobile State of Mind

On the Poetry of Concrete and Steel

Suspended of All Imported Meanings

The Troubadour of the Occidental Exile

PART IV MYSTICISM AND MYTHOLOGIES

9 The World of Verisimilitude

The Nature and Disposition of Creativity

Towards a Culture of Bodily Denials

Fabling the World

The Metaphysics of the Absolutes

Subjection and Re-Subjection

Against Dead Certainties

A Material Celebration of Life

The Sound of Gabriel’s Wing

Towards a Cinematic (Counter-)Culture

PART V VISIONS IMPERMISSIBLE

10 Visions of the Invisible

Art as Postcoloniality

Against the Jargon of Authenticity

The Publicity of the Spectacle

Counter-Imagining the Moral

Being Iranian

Self-Spectatorship

The Aesthetic as Liberating the Subject

The Colonial Modernity of Being Iranian

Looking Back

The Aesthetic and the Sacred

Conclusion: Mashya and Mashyana Unearthed

My Philosophical Mother is a Poet

Overcoming the European Sovereign Subject

The Prose and Poetics of a Longue Durée

The Battlefield of Pure Verisimilitude

From Mazdean Myth to Metonymic Subjectivity

Semblance and Subjectivity

Pivoting Towards a Liberated Subject and a Liberation Philosophy

Mythos as Inheritance

Notes

Index