CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Farhang, Foroogh |
|---|---|
| Title | Failed Heroes: Religious/National Body and the Representation of Shi'a Martyrs |
| Summary | The thesis aims at understanding how the dominant ideology of religious nationalism in post-revolutionary Iran shape, regulate, and reproduce religious/national bodies through the visual representation of Shi’i saintly martyrs in posters and the representation of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) martyrs in the mural paintings. I claim that the ideology of religious nationalism, by providing a hierarchical relation of transcendence as superior to materiality and unworldly love and self as superior to body, constructs a non-material bond between the warriors and the Shi’i saintly martyrs. This sublimation, in this regard, ensures the national and political goals of power. |
| Supervisor | Renkin, Hadley Zaun |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/farhang_foroogh.pdf |
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