Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.33806/ijaes2000.23.1.7
A. Othman
Flash fiction, stories of extreme brevity, is a subgenre of short story writing in which special attention is paid to the choice of words, grammar and punctuation to actively involve the reader in the act of unravelling the multiple layers of meaning evoked. Upon reading a flash, “Readers move in time in such a way that it catapults them from beginning to end and back again” (Rohrberger 2004: 7). The brevity of the flash and the abrupt ending bring the reader full circle back to the title. Upon reflection on the title and the irony interwoven in the fabric of the flash, the latent meanings start to evolve constructing a plot as complex as that of longer narratives. Although critics claim that flash fiction lacks plot, the present paper proves through interpreting the flashes in Lydia Davis’ Varieties of Disturbance (2007) that flash fiction has plot and that irony is what gives rise to it.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.33806/ijaes2000.23.1.8
T. Shiryaeva, V. Katermina, E. Golubovskaya, N. Mekeko
The current paper addresses the issue of axiological potential of mass media discursive texts generated during the coronavirus outbreak, namely those discussing and debating Russian vaccines. The study draws on discourse analysis and linguoaxiological analysis of media texts, which reveals the main ideological trends of informing the global community about the state of the Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. The authors have determined that the trends revealed as a result of media discourse analysis concern such phenomena as ‘political agenda’, ‘safety issues’ and ‘compulsion to vaccinate / mistrust of government’. To share these axiologically charged ideas, speakers follow particular verbal practices, i.e., using emotive vocabulary, primarily evaluative word-combinations, axiological notions, metaphors, pejorative vocabulary, discursive markers etc. for manipulating the perception of the covered events. As a result, main constituents for the three key thematic fields are identified, extensively described, and structured through verbal representations of axiological notions. The results illustrate how mass media discourse can be used to investigate axiological notions delivered by the author. Besides, it can provide researchers with an instrument to identify the language means used to create either positive or negative media image.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.33806/ijaes2000.23.1.13
Ella Maillart’s, Ahmad Gholi, Colin Thubron
Travel writing becomes an object of scholarly scrutiny thanks to Edward Said’s Orientalism in which he contends that travel narratives are not the objective portraits of Oriental peoples and loci, but the narratives that collude with Orientalism to justify and foster Western Empires. Nonetheless, scholars such as Behdad and Blanton disagree with Said’s view, asserting that travel writers can transcend the rigid norms of Orientalism. Thus, by employing Behdad’s and Blanton’s views as its theoretical approach, this article will read Ella Maillart’s The Cruel Way to highlight its counter-orientalism: the moments in which the travel writer challenges the inherited orientalist viewpoints. Accordingly, the article argues that Maillart exhibits her counter-orientalism in three ways: firstly, through fruitful engagement with Afghan food culture, secondly via celebrating the henna bearing testimony to her Islamophilic stance, and finally by interrogating the geography of violence. In doing so, she offers an unstereotypical picture of Afghanistan. To accentuate Maillart’s counter-orientalist stance, the present article will juxtapose her benevolent attitude with the orientalist outlook of male travel writers with respect to food, henna, and violence. It concludes that Maillart’s counter-orientalist perspective originates from her neutral nationality and gender.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.33806/ijaes2000.23.1.18
J. Shim, Sarah Zahaf
This paper investigates the use of subtitles by Arabic-English bilingual speakers in the UAE. While extant research on the effects of subtitles on language acquisition focuses on either first language acquisition by children or second or foreign acquisition by monolingual speakers, this study examines bilingual speakers and their preference for the language of subtitles in different contexts via an online questionnaire. Results from 28 Arabic-English bilingual speakers revealed that subtitles were used more frequently for foreign language films and English language films over Arabic language films, and English was the preferred subtitle language regardless of the language of the film. Higher dependence on subtitles for English language films in contrast to lower dependence on subtitles for Arabic language films suggests the participants’ lower English proficiency and higher proficiency in Arabic. However, an analysis of self-reported language proficiency revealed that participants were more dominant in English, which also accounts for the selection of English as a preferred subtitle language. The paper concludes that such contradictory findings reflect linguistic dualism between English and Arabic that prevails in the UAE, which is due to the proliferation of English especially in the education sector in the country.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.33806/ijaes2000.23.1.11
Mounir Al-Jilani, Mounir Ben Zid, Sultan Qaboos
Many critics have speculated on the influence of Western literature on English romantic poets. Mainstream scholars have often referred to Greek, Roman, and Western sources, attributing the genealogy of romantic topoi to the West, while turning a blind eye to the impact of non-Western culture. As a result, the influence of Arabic materials on English Romantic poetry during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries remains insufficiently recognized. The present study challenges the pervasive assumption that English Romantic poets were influenced mainly by the Western philosophical, religious, and literary sources. Instead, it provides evidence supporting the view that the roots of romantic topoi derive from both intercultural encounters and transcultural experiences. In particular, the role played by Oriental, Arab, and Muslim writers in helping English romantic poets develop their themes, characters, imagery, and narrative modes is discussed. Moreover, Arab-Islamic influences on Western literature is acknowledged to rectify the misconception that romantic topoi solely resulted from the Western intercultural encounters. The analyses presented in the paper demonstrate that Arabic and Islamic sources inspired British romantic poets like Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats, helping them not only in finding their own voices but also in developing their themes, metaphors, symbols, characters, and images.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.33806/ijaes2000.23.1.12
Waleed Othman, Mohammad Alhailawani
The objective of this work is to conduct a corpus-based diachronic investigation of lexicalization patterns of motion events as well as attention to manner of motion in Arabic narrative writing. Motivated by the scarcity of research on Arabic motion events, this study aims to identify the main linguistic constructions used to express motion events in Arabic novels and more importantly to investigate whether a shift in manner of motion salience has taken place in the last hundred years. The study draws on Talmy’s framework of satellite-framed versus verb-framed typology of languages and makes use of two literary corpora. Main findings include the identification of six major constructions of motion events and show that while novelists in both time periods make use of similar linguistic constructions, there seems to be a significant shift towards more manner salience in contemporary Arabic novels. This increased attention is reflected in less use of the default manner-of-motion verb, walk, in favour of more expressive manner verbs, a stronger tendency to manner modification with walk and non-manner verbs, and a significantly heavier use of non-verbal modifiers.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.33806/ijaes2000.23.1.1
F. L. Alobeytha, T. Alodwan
Arab women bear the struggle of their local tradition in their countries and the tradition of the Westerns when they live between them. They are victims of gender discrimination and racism. Ethnocentrism is the inclination of people who consider their customs, civilizations, culture, skin, and colour superior, demanding others to follow and imitate them. This paper examined the influence of ethnocentrism on Arab women in Arabian and Western countries by analysing Fadia Faqir’s The Cry of the Dove (2007). The framework in this study is guided by ethnocentrism as a concept in postcolonial theory. The findings revealed that (i) due to ethnocentrism, Arab women suffer gender discrimination, violence, marginalisation, slavery, and death, (ii) Western ethnocentrism abuses and dehumanises the Arab women immigrants, and (iii) ethnocentrism creates many chronic social and political diseases in the minds of people (colonizers, colonized and decolonized people, men and women ), (iv) and some Arab women view the Western world as a unique model that should be imitated.
当阿拉伯妇女生活在她们的国家和西方人之间时，她们承受着当地传统和西方人传统的斗争。他们是性别歧视和种族主义的受害者。民族中心主义是指人们认为自己的习俗、文明、文化、皮肤和肤色优越，要求他人追随和模仿他们的倾向。本文通过分析法迪亚·法奇尔（Fadia Faqir）的《鸽子的哭泣》（the Cry of the Dove，2007），考察了种族中心主义对阿拉伯和西方国家阿拉伯妇女的影响。本研究的框架以种族中心主义作为后殖民理论中的一个概念为指导。研究结果表明，（i）由于种族中心主义，阿拉伯妇女遭受性别歧视、暴力、边缘化、奴役和死亡，（ii）西方种族中心主义虐待和非人化阿拉伯女性移民，以及（iii）种族中心主义在人们（殖民者、被殖民化和非殖民化者、男性和女性）的脑海中制造了许多长期的社会和政治疾病，（iv）一些阿拉伯妇女认为西方世界是一个独特的模式，应该效仿。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.33806/ijaes2000.23.1.17
Nabil Abdullah, Linda M. Park‐Fuller
The present paper is mainly concerned with exploring the historical stigma, implicit truths, and chaotic dynamics informing women's breast cancer as the most traumatic, disfiguring, and life-threatening illness. For this purpose, the study investigates Linda Park–Fuller’s auto-performance, “A Clean Breast of It” – a pre-millennial, Anglo-American, and gender-conscious case study with the aim of delving into the plights of fractured female bodies living with breast cancer and harassed by bio-power. Scrutinizing their fragmented state of consciousness, the study considers the ways these female bodies are discursively shaped, regulated, categorized, and manipulated by the authority of the (mostly male) medical gaze and the body-focused, seemingly empowering pink ribbon culture. Administering a Foucauldian-inspired Feminist Post-structural approach, the study reaches the conclusion that the dramatized plight and subjective experience in the case study of Park-Fuller’s auto-performance is a gendered journey of reconstructing the self. Moreover, her active questioning of hegemonic discourses and health-related practices of the sexist bio-power serves in demonstrating the ways gender and power relations are constituted within disease regimes, the means by which the sick female bodies are developed within relationships of power, and the potentialities of their (the sick female bodies’) radical transformation.
本文主要探讨历史的耻辱，隐含的真相，和混乱的动态告知女性乳腺癌作为最创伤，毁容，和危及生命的疾病。为此，本研究调查了琳达·帕克-富勒的自动表演“A Clean Breast of It”——这是一个前千年的、盎格鲁-美国人的、有性别意识的案例研究，目的是深入研究患有乳腺癌和受到生物动力困扰的女性身体的困境。仔细观察她们支离破碎的意识状态，该研究考虑了这些女性身体是如何被(主要是男性)医学权威和以身体为中心、似乎赋予权力的粉红丝带文化所塑造、调节、分类和操纵的。本研究运用福柯式的女权主义后结构研究方法，认为帕克-富勒的自我表演的戏剧化困境和主观体验是一段性别化的自我重建之旅。此外，她对性别歧视生物权力的霸权话语和与健康有关的实践的积极质疑，有助于展示性别和权力关系在疾病制度中构成的方式，患病的女性身体在权力关系中发展的手段，以及她们(患病的女性身体)激进转变的潜力。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.33806/ijaes2000.23.1.4
Yousef Hamdan, Duaa Salameh
This paper discusses Sinan Antoon’s novel Ya Maryam and its representation of contemporary Iraq in the wake of the tragic events that took place after the American occupation of Iraq in 2003. It sheds light on the sectarian crisis and the violent and atrocious events that turned Iraq into a minefield. The novel is more descriptive than prescriptive, not only allowing us to see the gloomy and violent reality of the present but also the tolerant past through the interplay between memory, history, and contemporaneity. Drawing on Pierre Nora’s conceptualization of memory and moving beyond the opposition between history and memory, we argue that Antoon’s use of intimate places and photographs allows him to bring both history and memory together as complementary records of the modern history of Iraq and as witness to that history. Through the generation gap between an uncle and his young niece, Antoon brings together Iraq as a single unified country through the reconciliation of past Iraq portrayed through the uncle’s memory and present Iraq as seen in the eyes of the niece. This reconciliation aims to solidify the meaning of national identity that transcends religion and time and confirms the Iraqiness of all Iraqis. Though the novel ends graphically and tragically with the death of its main protagonist, Yousef, the trauma of his loss allows for the transformation of his niece and ends with the confirmation that Iraq is for all Iraqis irrespective of ethno-religious identity.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.33806/ijaes2000.23.1.19
Saif Raed Nafia Fakhrulddin, Ida Baizura Binti Bahar, Zainor Izat Zainal, M. Awang
This study is centred on the first novel published by the contemporary American author, Waldman, in 2011, entitled The Submission. The novel recounts the story of a Muslim architect named Mohammad who wins a contest to design the 9/11 memorial. Set in 2003, New York, the consequence is a serious public outrage swirling around Mohammad or, more precisely, the fact that he is a Muslim. This study highlights the issue of the social oppression of the identity of Muslim minority characters in America, and how they are perceived as inferior by their American counterparts using the concept of cultural imperialism and its related critical insights of oppression by the American socio-feminist philosopher, Young (1990). The objective of this study, accordingly, is to examine the author’s depictions of the American society as the cultural imperialism persecuting Muslim characters. The findings show the multifarious peculiarities of oppression as a social phenomenon embodying the genuine critical nuance of America as the miniatures of cultural imperialism that oppresses Muslim characters.
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