Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.25.1.0054
Rawad Alhashmi
abstract:This article examines the transcription of diglossia in Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue (al-Tábúr 2013; translated into English by Elisabeth Jaquette in 2016) and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (Frānkishtāyn fī Baghdad 2013; translated into English by Jonathan Wright in 2018), and how it is rendered in translation. The article argues that Abdel Aziz and Saadawi encapsulate diglossia in their novels to crystallize the immediacy of sociopolitical upheavals through the momentum of the Arab Spring and the colonial background of Iraq. The juxtaposition of high variety (Standard Arabic) and low variety (colloquial Arabic) is engineered toward the democratization of everyday language Arabic Science Fiction (ASF) to engage with ongoing events, thereby capturing the immediacy of the present in one genre. In doing so, Abdel Aziz and Saadawi constitute an archetype project of diglossia in the realm of ASF, opening a new linguistic chapter to convey a local spectrum of literary narrative beyond the convention of literary language, which uses standard Arabic as a serious literary medium. Thus, both novelists bridge the gap between high and low varieties, providing a new political immediacy to their societies.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.25.1.0027
Paolo Pitari
abstract:This article provides an overview of philosophical interpretations of Dostoevsky, focusing on readings that pay particular attention to his representation of the battle between good and evil, and postulating that said representation constitutes the essence of his works. The analysis maps this history of interpretations as developing within a specific framework: the dispute between interpreters who argue that good triumphs in Dostoevsky’s works and those who maintain that nihilism prevails in the end. In this context, the article submits its own thesis: that a fundamental contradiction haunts the offer, in Dostoevsky’s works, of Christian salvation, and condemns Dostoevsky to defeat at the hands of his nihilists.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52092
Shruti Das
Since the publication of Arran Stibbe's critically acclaimed book Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology, and the Stories We Live By (2015), a new approach to ecolinguistics has emerged, one that focuses on how much ecologically constructive or destructive views are included in the discourses contained in the "stories" that people "live by" every day. Toni Morrison, expanding the possibilities of African American ecological writing, explores the healing impact of nature that is reflected in the "stories" the characters "live by" in her novels. Her writings build a narrative frame in which nature is the benefactor and healer. On the one hand the narratives poignantly and painfully expose the psychological or emotional wounds suffered by the African- Americans and on the other depict nature as a healer of these wounds. Our concern in this paper is Morrison’s novel Home (2012). It is a story of a veteran soldier, Frank Money who returns home, with traumatic war memories deeply entrenched into his mind, to rescue his sister Cee from the clutches of a doctor who was abusing her body. The siblings are ultimately healed by associating themselves with and communicating with other members of their community and nature. This paper will apply Stibbe’s theory of ecolinguistics and look at the stories and narrative discourses in Morrison’s Home to see how the ecology of language in the narrative posits that living in harmony with nature produces a healing effect.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52086
Pradip Sharma
This paper explores Michael K’s zoomorphic life in The Life and Times of Michael K. Zeroing in on J.M. Coetzee’s novel, I argue that K’s relegation to creaturely life permeated by the colonial regime substantiates Giorgio Agamben’s ‘bare life,’ life subjected to suffering and injustice. K, a socially excluded man suffers in riot run Cape Town. His preference to cave life verifies his zoological life which sharply ridicules Foucauldian claim of life proliferating biopolitical governmentality. Rather the socio-political injustice K witnesses problematizes Agamben’s analytics of homo sacer, a liminal human figure pushed away from the socio-political security. Thus, linking the liminal life of K with homo sacer, this article examines his animalized life (zoé) when he witnesses the ripping off his political life (biós) during the civil war. The declaration of emergency, intimidation, and forced labor camp exercised by the state offers him docile and bestialized life undistinguished from biós and zoé. This article discusses on how overarching biosovereign power subjects K to embody precarity and outlawry that begets him a bare life. Finally, it creates an academic avenue in Life and Times of Michael K to make a biopolitical discourse in humanities.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v36i1.52090
Saroj Gc
This Paper examines how the protagonist, Chris Gardner, an African American, in Gabriele Muccino's film the Pursuit of Happyness grapples with underlying identity crisis in first decade of 21st century while pursuing his happiness. The film nowhere claims that the color of skin is an operative social component that is detrimental to pursuit of dream, the American Dream. However, the amnesiac picture of racial history is undercut by the choice of protagonist, Chris Gardner, an African American makes and grapples to accomplish it. In the light of this situation, the paper tries to tests one of the important notions of critical race theory, double consciousness, a putatively collective African American socio-historical conditions as characterized and postulated by Du Bois, and explore the dilemma inherent in Chris Gardner's pursuit of happiness. More significantly, the paper analyzes the liminal space the protagonist lives, experiences, undergoes and wrestles, and tries to come out of it if possible. Pointedly, it traces the protagonist's spiritual striving to the past, and explores the material need of the present. The paper concludes that how his dream has been subject to racialized ascription, and how and what the dream means for Chris Gardner. The paper clearly demonstrates the philosophical shift— the spiritual striving to the material quest in Gardner's pursuit of the dream.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.4.0491
K. Burzyńska
abstract:This article investigates the early modern fluidity of pregnancy and instability of the reproductive health discourse in order to reconsider Moll’s “green-sickness,” her embodiment and agency in A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. Taking an (eco) feminist and phenomenological perspective, I argue that Moll has been mis-diagnosed by both the play’s characters and critics who failed to recognize her sexual responsiveness to a suitor of her choice. In what follows I look at Middleton’s treatment of contemporary medical knowledge on female health, pregnancy, and labor in order to illuminate a pervasive erasure of female sexual agency in the period. Although Middleton’s characters follow contemporary medical advice, they use it chaotically, contributing to a momentary collapse of virgin/whore, fertile/barren labels—capturing a sex-gender system in flux. The play’s glimpse into maids’ realities problematizes rather than confirms the precepts of humoral medicine.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.4.0469
C. Leung
abstract:Despite its explicit allusion to Virginia Woolf, British choreographer Wayne McGregor’s modern ballet Woolf Works has not interested Woolf and modern scholars. Zeroing in on the final act (“Tuesday”) of McGregor’s Woolf Works, this article offers a revisionary reading of death, dance, and debilitation in The Waves by harnessing McGregor’s concurrent classical and avant-garde energies. Whereas interpretations of The Waves habitually lapse into the hackneyed invocation of its lyricism, I draw on its undercurrent and argue that both “Tuesday” and The Waves stage a break with this surface fluidity and the benign rhythm of the mundane. If McGregor’s “Tuesday” celebrates sinking with its antigravitational movements, The Waves condemns its characters, who are reluctant to relax their muscularity of control into a compulsive desire to stay afloat. As McGregor’s “Tuesday” suggests, there is an expedient labor in sinking, which Woolf configures as a movement toward truth. I thus read the inertness of sinking not as a failure to dance to what Lewis calls the “central rhythm” but an opposite energy that counters the military veneration of control and its mechanical adhesion to order in classical aesthetics.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.4.0512
Sonia Front
abstract:Western culture tends to separate the notion of phenomenological time (subjective time experienced in individual consciousness) from cosmological time (objective time, accessible through the clock), arguing that they take place on different levels and have no connection. This classic opposition is challenged in two time-travel novels, John Wray’s The Lost Time Accidents (2016) and Adam Roberts’s The Thing Itself (2015). Untypically of time-travel plots, the two texts explore the relationship between human consciousness and time so as to dismantle and transgress it. While The Lost Time Accidents proposes that there is external time, yet even if we could perceive it, the picture would be tainted by our consciousness, The Thing Itself goes further and proffers— consistently with Immanuel Kant’s ideas, which it enacts—that there is no space or time in the external world; they are instead parts of human consciousness, used to order reality. The novels thus revise the simplistic opposition between phenomenological and cosmological time, advancing the two temporal experiences as two aspects of consciousness of time that complement each other.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.4.0553
Ahmet Ramazan Salman
abstract:Although nationalism, or anticolonial nationalism, which gained momentum after the First World War, especially within the borders of the major colonial states, may not seem to be directly central to George Orwell’s Burmese Days, it incorporates a profound impact on the development of the plot leading to Flory’s suicide at the end. Taking into account the political background of the period in which the novel was written and depicts—denominating a period of about ten years in between—this article addresses the basic tenets and prevailing features of nationalist ideology and its significant place in the novel and manifests the extensiveness and profundity of the way Burmese Days is interwoven with the ideology of nationalism.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.4.0585
Richard White
abstract:Goethe’s novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774 and revised 1787), stands at the very beginning of the modern period, and offers a dramatic story of passionate love, which is still profoundly relevant. As a popular bestseller, this book is a response to emerging romantic themes. It seems to affirm romantic experience, while it initiates a critique of many of its typical forms at the point when these stereotypes were first beginning to appear. Through a close examination of Goethe’s text, this article considers (1) Werther’s self-destructive passion; (2) romantic love as a heroic response to the alienation of modern society; and (3) the problem of gender, which Werther ignores. In this novel, Goethe begins a philosophical conversation on love that we are bound to continue: What is romantic love, and in what way does it liberate or constrain us? And given some of the problems of romantic love, what would a “post-romantic” love be like?
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