Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2102105
Rachid Acim
ABSTRACT Since time immemorial, Sufi saints in the Islamic tradition, and American transcendentalists of the Christian orthodoxy, have embraced love in their writings and prolific literary productions. They struggled so valiantly to ward off tension and conflict and bypass duality and binarism from their philosophies of life. Either folk believed in the potential of love to transform the very essence of individuals, for love per se is regarded – at least by them – as a fire and an emerald; it is the cause of creation and the source of all inspiration. By juxtaposing love with humaneness and by placing the two at the front of all religiosity, Sufis and the American transcendentalists sought to build for themselves an avenue for dialogue that accepts and never rejects different cultures and belief systems. This article, which is grounded in comparative literature, is an excavation for the numerous similitudes between Islamic Sufism and American transcendentalism. Rumi and Emerson, the two legendary poets, so popularized in the West and the East, are put forth in this enquiry to unpack their pivotal contribution to and leadership in the spirituality of love and unity.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2158559
A.N. Sreelakshmi, Susan Sanny
ABSTRACT Poetry is a literary form where the poet expresses himself or herself through the representations they have carved. It defines a literary expression where the beliefs and perceptions get represented using mythical aspects to enhance cultural meanings. Margaret Atwood is well-known for using mythical female characters in her poems by placing them in the contemporary sphere. As Guerin once remarked, a tribe or a country might come together through mythology to engage in shared psychological and spiritual pursuits. The female characters which Atwood brings into her poems are metaphors representing the socio-political and cultural state of the modern era in which females are placed now in the present times. In her poem, “Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing,” Atwood brings in the historical figure of the famous Helen of Troy, who is well known in the literary domain for her beauty which formed the basis for the Trojan War. The paper argues how the aspect of revisiting myth in the poem trounces objectification by using the notion of female resistance.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2152565
Jianghua Han
ABSTRACT As a culture created by the Yi people in their specific historical living environment, the Yi people’s wine culture is an important part of the Yi people’s overall culture. It arouses the immortal national soul of the Yi people, and cultivates and highlights the Yi people’s rich history of civilization. With the accumulation of history, wine and its precipitated cultural content has become a collective unconscious act of worshipping and admiring wine in the hearts of the Yi people. Wine culture plays a specific role in various areas of Yi people’s social life, extending a series of social functions, including: (1) Carrying and reflecting the traditional beliefs of the Yi people; (2) Creating Yi people’s personality as enthusiastic, cheerful, straightforward, and optimistic; (3) Reflecting the daily life of the Yi people, and becoming participants and witnesses of various rituals in Yi people’s lives; (4) Containing and reflecting rich Yi social etiquette; and (5) Promoting the construction of harmonious interpersonal relationships in Yi society.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2148444
Barnashree Khasnobis
ABSTRACT Dipesh Chakraborty and Kathleen D Morrison engage in provincializing the Anthropocene to decenter the grasp of the idea that Anthropocene is an outcome of European industrial phase that enhanced socio-economic growth worldwide, thereby revealing the other causes for the culmination of the era of Anthropocene, offering a space to other cultural histories and Anthropogenic pursuits by non-European societies responsible for climate change. Local episodes of altered weather patterns and adversities when compared, they assist in conceiving the shift in the climate of Earth because of inclusivity of experiences across boundaries, giving importance to the planet that constitutes life. This paper is a comparative study of two poetry collections, Anthropocene Blues (2017) by John Lane and Anthropocene (2021) by Sudeep Sen to ascertain how these poets, belonging to two different continents represent the Anthropocene and deal with its provincialization through their poems. Through an analogical framework, this paper deliberates that how provincialization of Anthropocene facilitates a link to gain a panoramic view of the planet towards the realization of a planetary climate change.
Dipesh Chakraborty和Kathleen D . Morrison对人类世进行了省域化，使人类世是欧洲工业阶段促进全球社会经济增长的结果这一观点的把握偏离中心，从而揭示了人类世时代高潮的其他原因，为其他文化历史和对气候变化负责的非欧洲社会的人为追求提供了空间。与局部气候模式的改变和逆境相比较，它们有助于理解地球气候的变化，因为跨越边界的经历具有包容性，对构成生命的星球具有重要性。本文对约翰·莱恩的《人类世蓝调》(2017)和苏迪普·森的《人类世》(2021)两部诗集进行比较研究，以确定这些来自两个不同大陆的诗人如何代表人类世，并通过他们的诗歌处理人类世的地方性。通过一个类比的框架，本文探讨了人类世的省部化如何促进了对地球全景的认识与实现行星气候变化的联系。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2146269
M. Islam
ABSTRACT This interview conducted with Mohammad A. Quayum from October 2021 to February 2022 focuses on a wide range of issues in literary translation and Translation Studies. Quayum is one of the leading academics and translators from Bangladesh, currently teaching at Flinders University, Australia.A renowned professor of English literature teaching in various countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US, Quayum has published numerous books and scholarly articles in renowned journals. His works have also drawn critical attention as they have been published by Brill, Penguin Books, Routledge, Springer and Stanford University Press. Quayum has already translated and published major writers and poets of Bengali literature into English, including Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880–1932) and Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976). In this interview, Quayum offers valuable insights about literary translation and his translated works. He argues that translation, which is an inter-lingual as well as inter-cultural activity, builds bridges between cultures. In his view, translators require clarity of mind and lots of free-floating energy to keep focused on their work. The interview touches upon Quayum’s deep involvement in research and translation activities, his thoughts on literary translation and Translation Studies, and the current state and prospects of literary translation in Bangladesh.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2148879
Hoang To Mai
ABSTRACT This paper examines some of Franz Kafka’s works about animals through the lens of ecocriticism and postcolonial criticism. The paper focuses particularly on the critical perspective of animals in “A Report to an Academy” (1917), “Investigations of a Dog” (1922), “A Crossbreed” (1917), and The Metamorphosis (1912). As one of the few writers of the early twentieth century who cared about the critical perspective of animals, Kafka (1883–1924) seems to have possessed special abilities of communication with animals. Reading his works invites the impression that Kafka’s worldview is close to that of animals, which thus allows him to manifest such creative animal characters in his works. Though ceaselessly judging animals, humans do not seem to take the slightest notice of the animals judging them. The shift in point of view from “human character” to “animal character” in the four works casts an authentic human image. That is, through the critical eyes of animals, the confidently “superior” and “hegemonic” position of humans in the natural world is suddenly flipped into a ridiculous illusion. Such a critique also holds for the supposedly superior civilization of the imperialist nations and the half-baked modernization of the colonized peoples.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2106663
S. Chakraborty
ABSTRACT At the beginning of human existence, myths functioned as realizations of the fundamental mysteries of life. In the absence of scientific information of any kind, societies devised creation myths, resurrection myths, and complicated systems of supernatural beings, each with specific powers and stories regarding their actions. At its best, science fiction generally tries to free the imagination and also opens up new avenues of perception. Its validity lies in its efforts to convey an exhilarating and life-enhancing appreciation of the mystery of the universe, of existence. The first science fiction was very much utopian; the following concerned a heavenly body and celestial body travel. As an effect, the genre arose out of the intensifying tenets that typify science and as initiative, and resourcefulness comprises the spirit of science. Through this paper, I will show how mythology and science fiction amalgamate and interconnect together. In the beginning, the inspiration for science fiction came from mythology, which means imagination changes into the reality of life.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2143073
Mariwan Hasan
ABSTRACT This study endeavors to show analogous ideas in Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and Sherko Bekas’s “A Fall Letter.” Bekas, who was a good reader of English poetry, was greatly influenced by Eliot. He familiarized himself with English literature and follows it truly. For the idea for his poem, “A Fall of Letter” Bekas benefits from Eliot’s “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” and uses it in composing his poem. Eliot’s modern style has been revealed in his works as presenting complicated ideas through a simple language to reassure the modernity in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” as well as the modernity in “A Fall Letter.” A sad and gloomy tone is seen in both poems – Eliot may be speaking to his soul or with a partner, but Bekas expresses the poem through apostrophe. The study culminates with an analytic comparison between the two poems: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “A Fall Letter” in terms of their themes.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2081422
Ogochukwu Ukwueze
ABSTRACT This paper demonstrates that two novels of European and African origins, Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) and Emezi’s Freshwater (2018) share a common discursive formative. Nomadism, it is argued, constitutes the consciousness behind the textual formation of the two stories, and this consciousness informs the trajectory of border crossing observable in the two novels in terms of narration, characterization and incidents. The subjects in the stories mostly refuse fixed and normative identity, and are physically and mentally in motion. They traverse limits and lack sense of proportion. The narration apparently lacks cohesive elements as the stories, from varying narrative views, move from one point to another without transitional cues. Grounded in Postmodernism, particularly the concepts of deterritorialization and nomadism, this study shows that the two novels, though variant in many ways, are similar in terms of their figuring the nonrecognition and crossing of narrative, sexual, physical, mental and symbolic borders. This reestablishes and consolidates the novels’ relation to the post/modernist sensibility.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-15DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2022.2043615
Shai Rudin
ABSTRACT In the 1990s, a new literary genre appeared – the chick lit – dealing with the stories of women in their 20s and 30s in the big city, including accessible and humoristic poetics. This article maps the characteristics of the genre as well as its origins: diary, journalistic writing, romance, glamor novel and Bildungsroman. Comparison between the Anglo-Saxon chick lit and the Israeli chick lit novel The Song of the Siren reveals that the genre is less successful in conservative societies than in liberal Western ones. However, its subversiveness is deeper and it promotes anti-stereotype themes regarding women’s singlehood (which becomes legitimate), in choosing a partner who enables the female character to be dominant and find her place and career in the public sphere.
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