{"id":642,"date":"2016-12-06T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T14:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/?page_id=642"},"modified":"2018-12-20T15:29:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T15:29:18","slug":"veiling-and-vampirism-imperialism-and-resistance-in-a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/veiling-and-vampirism-imperialism-and-resistance-in-a-girl-walks-home-alone-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Veiling and Vampirism: Imperialism and Resistance in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Ashley Begley<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--\n\n<h4>From the Faculty Nominator:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n<p>\n\"JoAnna Ramsey wrote this paper for my Public History seminar in the fall of 2014.  I had asked the students to choose research topics related to the Vernon Goetz Diary, a World War II diary which had been donated to Special Collections and Archives in the fall of 2013.  JoAnna was intrigued by several leaflets, printed in German, that Goetz had attached to several pages of his diary.  As a result of studying these leaflets, JoAnna decided to focus her research on America\u2019s propaganda campaigns, both at home and against the German Army, during World War II.\nThis is an outstanding paper for a number of reasons.  First and foremost is the quality and breadth of research that went into this paper.  Through diligent research on the internet, JoAnna was able to locate all of the German-language leaflets from the Goetz Diary in the files of the Propaganda War Division.  Through further research, she was then able to ascertain how these leaflets were used and how successful they were in achieving their goals.  Her discovery of the photograph of Germans surrendering with the leaflet in hand was, to me, remarkable. \n Beyond her research on the leaflets, she pursued information on the U.S. government\u2019s extensive program of mobilizing support for the war at home through the mass media.  Her research on this topic in print and internet sources, including broadcasts of wartime film and radio programs, was excellent.  As a result of the information and revealing images she gathered, JoAnna was able to write a thorough and convincing account of the variety of media the government employed to convert the strong isolationist sentiments that dominated the country at the outbreak of the war to solid popular support for the war.\"\n<br \/>\n\"Beautifully written, well-organized, and carefully documented, JoAnna\u2019s essay is an excellent example of first-rate undergraduate scholarship.\"\n\n<\/p>\n\n--><\/p>\n<h4>From the Author:<\/h4>\n<p>\n&#8220;After witnessing the rise of militant Islamophobia, I thought it necessary to offer a perspective that disrupted the norm that has become virulent in Western society\u2014demonization of the \u201cOther.\u201d Therefore, I decided to focus on the \u201cfirst Middle Eastern vampire western film,\u201d A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, because the protagonist of the film is Othered both by her belief in the Islamic faith and her deviating vampiric body. More so, this paper examines the Iranian-American film as an act of resistance to imperialism in the Middle East. It explores how the protagonist subverts Western imperial influence by claiming the power that lies within her female sexuality. My hope, then, is that this paper will contribute to the destabilization of hegemonic power that is found within imperialist and heteropatriarchal relationships to bring about actualized change, and that the true force behind this change, the embodied identity and agency of local Iranian women, will no longer be made invisible by Western-centrism.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/files\/2016\/12\/Ashley_Begley.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Veiling and Vampirism: Imperialism and Resistance in <em>A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyrights of all Verge articles and editorial material belong to the authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ashley Begley From the Author: &#8220;After witnessing the rise of militant Islamophobia, I thought it necessary to offer a perspective that disrupted the norm that has become virulent in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-642","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/642\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}