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Journal of humanities and social sciences studies, Feb 8, 2024
The Journal of Arts, Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences (jalhss), 2022
In her memoir, Looking For Palestine: Growing up Confused In An Arab-American Family (2013), Najl... more In her memoir, Looking For Palestine: Growing up Confused In An Arab-American Family (2013), Najla Said, the Palestinian-American actress, playwright, author, and activist, has raised more questions than giving answers, negotiating the space between a position of enunciation and the multiple yet diverse cultural legacies and political powers at play. This paper extends arguments on her memoir by focusing on how she portrays Palestine, excavating the memories of her childhood and adolescent years. The remote homeland portrait, Palestine, the abstract space established through her father's stories and media reports, is exposed to a new consciousness after her visit to Palestine in 1992 with her father, Edward Said, and family. The paper explores how Najla Said's journey to Palestine, along with the 9/11 attacks, was a pivotal turning point in her reconfiguration of self and identity while reconstructing the homeland. The paper also examines the inconsistent images of the homeland and the host land where Najla Said suffers from confusion and disintegration, trying to liberate herself from both prejudices, reidentified not only with the homeland but also with the host land. The paper analyzes Najla's narrative, with its chronotopic relationship that shapes her new consciousness of history and the landscape. It also examines how Najla Said traverses the space and friction between filiation and affiliation to live her life, to find her own voice and space in a more humane universal world that enjoys love, peace, and art.
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI), 2022
As a theatre innovator, Henrik Ibsen tackled controversial themes and experimented with new theat... more As a theatre innovator, Henrik Ibsen tackled controversial themes and experimented with new theatrical techniques. This study examines how Ibsen employed the Italian folk dance of Tarantella in his masterpiece, A Doll's House (1879), where his heroine Nora dances the Tarantella twice in the play towering to the drama's climax. The paper explores how the heroine undergoes this practice, focusing on Nora's shift of perspectives before and after the dance. The study examines Nora's voice while performing her dance and how that dance helps her overcome her personal pain. The methodology used for this study integrates Carl Jung's perspectives on Active Imagination, Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP), cultural dance, and feminism. The psychotherapeutic perspective establishes a dialogue between body and psyche, conscious and the unconscious, utilizing symbols of dreams, fantasies, memories, body language, rituals, and art, as a bridge between the realms of conscious and the unconscious to create new conscious attitudes, a union of body and psyche. The process of that embodiment, the experience, recognition, and manifestation of the dance movements creates a new frame of meaning that helps facilitate a process of transformation and reframing of the individual Nora to be a global cultural icon for all women. The research reveals that Ibsen succeeded in conceptualizing Tarantella dance as part of an integrated theatrical whole, dance as significant as any other element in the play. To Ibsen, tarantella is a performative experience, a reflexive practice, and a reflection of identity. Nora's dance is not for entertainment or an erotic female display of the body but as an art of cultural taste, an expression of the soul.
This paper aims to explore how Kazuo Ishiguro has found a position of enunciation away from the c... more This paper aims to explore how Kazuo Ishiguro has found a position of enunciation away from the conflicting sentiments of otherness between the deeply rooted traditions of both Japan and England. With a particular focus on Ishiguro’s third novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), the paper highlights the shift of the scene from Japan in his first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World to a purely English setting in The Remains of the Day. Drawing on the postcolonial theoretical framework, the study examines Ishiguro’s literary production grapples with universal themes. It offers ways to question the ‘national greatness’ of both empires as represented through Japanese and British voices while narrating their personal histories and traumas. The main contribution of this study lies in extending arguments on the postcolonial engagement of Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, by focusing on his demythologization of both Eastern and Western Empires. The paper conc...
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, 2022
This paper aims to explore how Kazuo Ishiguro has found a position of enunciation away from the c... more This paper aims to explore how Kazuo Ishiguro has found a position of enunciation away from the conflicting sentiments of otherness between the deeply rooted traditions of both Japan and England. With a particular focus on Ishiguro's third novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), the paper highlights the shift of the scene from Japan in his first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World to a purely English setting in The Remains of the Day. Drawing on the postcolonial theoretical framework, the study examines Ishiguro's literary production grapples with universal themes. It offers ways to question the 'national greatness' of both empires as represented through Japanese and British voices while narrating their personal histories and traumas. The main contribution of this study lies in extending arguments on the postcolonial engagement of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, by focusing on his demythologization of both Eastern and Western Empires. The paper concludes that Ishiguro's 'fictional' metamorphosis serves to subvert imperial landscapes, and convert them into mythical metaphors to approach universal themes and worlds, while simultaneously finding his own voice and territory.
International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 2022
This paper offers a comparative reading of Cleopatra, the most famous Egyptian queen in history, ... more This paper offers a comparative reading of Cleopatra, the most famous Egyptian queen in history, as portrayed by William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra (1606) and Ahamad Shawqi in Mas’ra’ Cleopatra, (Death of Cleopatra) (1927). It aims at analyzing both portrayals from developmental psychological and feminist perspectives demonstrated particularly in Carol Gilligan’s theories. Gilligan explored the development of women’s morality and ethics of care in her influential book In a Different Voice (1982) and other subsequent publications. The aim is to investigate how Shakespeare and Shawqi portray her as a female protagonist, her manner of thinking, and her system of values. Cleopatra’s dilemma as a woman in her different roles as a queen, political leader, wife, mother, and lover is examined in the light of these theories of ethics of care/ justice and the power im/balance between the sexes. The methodology used in this study integrates Gilligan’s perspectives of women’s concepts...
International journal of literature studies, Apr 20, 2022
This study seeks to examine how Arnold Wesker's The Merchant (1976) appropriates the canonical Sh... more This study seeks to examine how Arnold Wesker's The Merchant (1976) appropriates the canonical Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1595). The study investigates Wesker's reasons behind his adaptation of Shakespeare's Shylock as a British workingclass Jewish playwright. Employing multicultural perspectives, this study discusses how Wesker rewrote his Shylock, subverting and redeeming Shakespeare's Shylock, and how Wesker's version represents class, race, religion, and other cultural phenomena to resemble or differ from the original text's representations. The paper is interested in exploring how Wesker reshapes the popular imagination, the ideological assumptions of the public, and how the cultural tradition of Shakespearean Shylock is viewed. Wesker's personal struggle as a Jewish working-class playwright is one of the vital variables examined in this study. The study reveals how Wesker voices his own literary thought, ideological philosophies, and anger, redeeming himself of the discrimination and the feeling of being an outsider in the British Theatre establishment.
Journal of humanities and social sciences studies, Feb 8, 2024
The Journal of Arts, Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences (jalhss), 2022
In her memoir, Looking For Palestine: Growing up Confused In An Arab-American Family (2013), Najl... more In her memoir, Looking For Palestine: Growing up Confused In An Arab-American Family (2013), Najla Said, the Palestinian-American actress, playwright, author, and activist, has raised more questions than giving answers, negotiating the space between a position of enunciation and the multiple yet diverse cultural legacies and political powers at play. This paper extends arguments on her memoir by focusing on how she portrays Palestine, excavating the memories of her childhood and adolescent years. The remote homeland portrait, Palestine, the abstract space established through her father's stories and media reports, is exposed to a new consciousness after her visit to Palestine in 1992 with her father, Edward Said, and family. The paper explores how Najla Said's journey to Palestine, along with the 9/11 attacks, was a pivotal turning point in her reconfiguration of self and identity while reconstructing the homeland. The paper also examines the inconsistent images of the homeland and the host land where Najla Said suffers from confusion and disintegration, trying to liberate herself from both prejudices, reidentified not only with the homeland but also with the host land. The paper analyzes Najla's narrative, with its chronotopic relationship that shapes her new consciousness of history and the landscape. It also examines how Najla Said traverses the space and friction between filiation and affiliation to live her life, to find her own voice and space in a more humane universal world that enjoys love, peace, and art.
International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI), 2022
As a theatre innovator, Henrik Ibsen tackled controversial themes and experimented with new theat... more As a theatre innovator, Henrik Ibsen tackled controversial themes and experimented with new theatrical techniques. This study examines how Ibsen employed the Italian folk dance of Tarantella in his masterpiece, A Doll's House (1879), where his heroine Nora dances the Tarantella twice in the play towering to the drama's climax. The paper explores how the heroine undergoes this practice, focusing on Nora's shift of perspectives before and after the dance. The study examines Nora's voice while performing her dance and how that dance helps her overcome her personal pain. The methodology used for this study integrates Carl Jung's perspectives on Active Imagination, Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP), cultural dance, and feminism. The psychotherapeutic perspective establishes a dialogue between body and psyche, conscious and the unconscious, utilizing symbols of dreams, fantasies, memories, body language, rituals, and art, as a bridge between the realms of conscious and the unconscious to create new conscious attitudes, a union of body and psyche. The process of that embodiment, the experience, recognition, and manifestation of the dance movements creates a new frame of meaning that helps facilitate a process of transformation and reframing of the individual Nora to be a global cultural icon for all women. The research reveals that Ibsen succeeded in conceptualizing Tarantella dance as part of an integrated theatrical whole, dance as significant as any other element in the play. To Ibsen, tarantella is a performative experience, a reflexive practice, and a reflection of identity. Nora's dance is not for entertainment or an erotic female display of the body but as an art of cultural taste, an expression of the soul.
This paper aims to explore how Kazuo Ishiguro has found a position of enunciation away from the c... more This paper aims to explore how Kazuo Ishiguro has found a position of enunciation away from the conflicting sentiments of otherness between the deeply rooted traditions of both Japan and England. With a particular focus on Ishiguro’s third novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), the paper highlights the shift of the scene from Japan in his first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World to a purely English setting in The Remains of the Day. Drawing on the postcolonial theoretical framework, the study examines Ishiguro’s literary production grapples with universal themes. It offers ways to question the ‘national greatness’ of both empires as represented through Japanese and British voices while narrating their personal histories and traumas. The main contribution of this study lies in extending arguments on the postcolonial engagement of Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day, by focusing on his demythologization of both Eastern and Western Empires. The paper conc...
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, 2022
This paper aims to explore how Kazuo Ishiguro has found a position of enunciation away from the c... more This paper aims to explore how Kazuo Ishiguro has found a position of enunciation away from the conflicting sentiments of otherness between the deeply rooted traditions of both Japan and England. With a particular focus on Ishiguro's third novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), the paper highlights the shift of the scene from Japan in his first two novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World to a purely English setting in The Remains of the Day. Drawing on the postcolonial theoretical framework, the study examines Ishiguro's literary production grapples with universal themes. It offers ways to question the 'national greatness' of both empires as represented through Japanese and British voices while narrating their personal histories and traumas. The main contribution of this study lies in extending arguments on the postcolonial engagement of Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, by focusing on his demythologization of both Eastern and Western Empires. The paper concludes that Ishiguro's 'fictional' metamorphosis serves to subvert imperial landscapes, and convert them into mythical metaphors to approach universal themes and worlds, while simultaneously finding his own voice and territory.
International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 2022
This paper offers a comparative reading of Cleopatra, the most famous Egyptian queen in history, ... more This paper offers a comparative reading of Cleopatra, the most famous Egyptian queen in history, as portrayed by William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra (1606) and Ahamad Shawqi in Mas’ra’ Cleopatra, (Death of Cleopatra) (1927). It aims at analyzing both portrayals from developmental psychological and feminist perspectives demonstrated particularly in Carol Gilligan’s theories. Gilligan explored the development of women’s morality and ethics of care in her influential book In a Different Voice (1982) and other subsequent publications. The aim is to investigate how Shakespeare and Shawqi portray her as a female protagonist, her manner of thinking, and her system of values. Cleopatra’s dilemma as a woman in her different roles as a queen, political leader, wife, mother, and lover is examined in the light of these theories of ethics of care/ justice and the power im/balance between the sexes. The methodology used in this study integrates Gilligan’s perspectives of women’s concepts...
International journal of literature studies, Apr 20, 2022
This study seeks to examine how Arnold Wesker's The Merchant (1976) appropriates the canonical Sh... more This study seeks to examine how Arnold Wesker's The Merchant (1976) appropriates the canonical Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1595). The study investigates Wesker's reasons behind his adaptation of Shakespeare's Shylock as a British workingclass Jewish playwright. Employing multicultural perspectives, this study discusses how Wesker rewrote his Shylock, subverting and redeeming Shakespeare's Shylock, and how Wesker's version represents class, race, religion, and other cultural phenomena to resemble or differ from the original text's representations. The paper is interested in exploring how Wesker reshapes the popular imagination, the ideological assumptions of the public, and how the cultural tradition of Shakespearean Shylock is viewed. Wesker's personal struggle as a Jewish working-class playwright is one of the vital variables examined in this study. The study reveals how Wesker voices his own literary thought, ideological philosophies, and anger, redeeming himself of the discrimination and the feeling of being an outsider in the British Theatre establishment.