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Author = Jafari, Alireza

Number of Articles: 5
Ideology and Interpellation of Black Americans' Community in Amiri Baraka's "In Memory of Radio": Althusserian Reading
Volume 14, Issue 19 , October 2018, , Pages 187-208

Abstract
  Abstract The present research attempts to study Imamu Amiri Baraka’s well-known poem “In Memory of Radio” with the help of Louis Althusser’s definition of “ideology”, “interpellation”, “repressive state apparatuses”, and “ideological state apparatuses”. According to Althusser, ...  Read More
Interaction or Conflict: Dominant Cultural and Subordinated Voice in Saul Bellow’s Works A Cultural Materialistic Approach

Abbas Goudarzi; Alireza Jafari

Volume 14, Issue 19 , October 2018, , Pages 279-296

Abstract
  The present paper means to study the cultural tension between the dissident voice and dominant discourse in a selected number of Saul Bellow’s novels. To this end, the theoretical framework of Cultural Materialism is applied based on which there exists tension in the relationship of every literary ...  Read More
To Close or Not to Close, That Is the Question: Sam Shepard’s Deconstructive Evasion of Closure in A Lie of the Mind
Volume 11, Issue 15 , October 2015, , Pages 73-91

Abstract
  Sam Shepard’s dramatic vision, like Jacques Derrida’s philosophy, observes not a world securely supported by metaphysical certainties, but one of discards and throwaways appeased by landscapes filled with fragments and debris. It is, therefore, pointless to employ traditional methodologies to extract ...  Read More
A Trace of Derrida in Shabestari’s linguistic-critical poetry
Volume 10, Issue 14 , October 2015, , Pages 247-274

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  The present article is an attempt to introduce the reader to two great and prominent thinkers, Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) and Mahmud Shabestari (687-720 A. H); and to discuss their viewpoints on the problems concerned with language. What makes the two thinkers closely related is not the age or the place ...  Read More