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" On Persian Blues: Queer Bodies, Racial Affects "
Sara Mameni
Kester, Grant
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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803519
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TL48312
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1704385469; 3712647
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| Main Entry
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Zaidi, Noor Zehra
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On Persian Blues: Queer Bodies, Racial Affects\ Sara MameniKester, Grant
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| College
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University of California, San Diego
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2015
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Ph.D.
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Visual Arts
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2015
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180
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Committee members: Bryson, William N.; Kheshti, Roshanak; Rahimi, Babak; Stern, Lesley; Wardwell, Mariana
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-89620-6
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| Abstract
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This dissertation is a critical analysis of the blues, or melancholic aesthetics, that appears within visual cultural practices that traverse Iran’s revolutionary period of 1960s to1980s. I foreground melancholia in this study for two reasons: first to argue for the materiality of feelings, such as that of the blues, and their relevance for art historical analysis; and second to highlight melancholia’s potential for enacting social change through aesthetic practices. My work contributes to current art historical studies of affect in contemporary art, by offering melancholia as a site of radical sociality. In my study, melancholia is not an individual state of the mind, but a public affect that incites collective action.
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Art history; Middle Eastern Studies; Gender studies
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Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Affect studies;Iranian art;Queer theory
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Kester, Grant
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Visual ArtsUniversity of California, San Diego
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