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When Libya joined the Arab Spring in 2011 it did so in reaction to the success of Tunisia and Egy... more When Libya joined the Arab Spring in 2011 it did so in reaction to the success of Tunisia and Egypt ousting their leaders. However, Libya's foray into revolution was different in that the Libyan people had spent 42 years under the frightening rule of Gaddafi, in an era rife with the fear of who was watching and reporting, and a general consensus that to speak out was to accept the fate of imprisonment or death. Due to the years of repression, the Libyans did not put themselves into situations, like Tahrir Square, wherein they knew they would be slaughtered. Instead, they organized themselves and in short order seemed to have developed a military mentality in order to survive. Their struggle was enabled, in part, by NATO strikes. But another difference from the other two rebellions was how the Libyan revolution blended the old with the new. Technology and modernity did play a role in the ability of the uprising to take hold, but the icons which were chosen to help rally the masses, included the old flag and Omar Mukhtar's photograph. Both of these harkened back to the Libyan's earlier revolt against the Italians and their hard-won independence in 1951. Both looked to a pre-Gaddafi era in the country's past. This article looks at how the Libyan uprising differed from that of Tunisia and Egypt, and how this particular rebellion was a revolution. Furthermore, it discusses the catalysts for the uprising and the role of the "Arab street" in giving the masses a place to express their rage with the Gaddafi regime.
For decades, the historical and political ramifications of the Palestinian / Israeli dispute not ... more For decades, the historical and political ramifications of the Palestinian / Israeli dispute not only created hostility between the Arabs and the Jews but also undermined the possibility of initiating a mutual dialogue between the two peoples. This paper aims to re-historicize the literary representation of the Jew in postmodern Arabic / Palestinian fiction dealing with the Palestinian question to illuminate controversial issues integral to both sides of the conflict. The paper argues that Palestinian authors particularly the great Palestinian writer, Ghassan Kanafani, provided counter-narratives deploying positive Jewish images in his literary works -in the post 1948 era-challenging orthodox and conservative Arabic discourse paving the way for a new era of sympathetic Jewish literary images in Arabic literature. In Returning to Haifa: Palestine's Children, the writer not only incorporates Palestinian suffering and displacementas in traditional Arabic literature -but also engages the Jewish history of diaspora and genocide. In other words, Kanafani in Returning to Haifa: Palestine's Children attempts to underline human issues of common interest for the two partners in the conflict foreshadowing the political agenda of his literary works.
Through the various lines along which the community is divided emerges a nuanced image of the bla... more Through the various lines along which the community is divided emerges a nuanced image of the black community in which blackness is an ontological category, not to be tied down to ugly, beautiful or any other specifics.
It is probably true to say that most learners of a foreign or a second language fail to achieve t... more It is probably true to say that most learners of a foreign or a second language fail to achieve their aim of native-like competence. Advanced Tunisian English Learners (ATEL) are an example; they faced problems to speak accurately due to inability to permanently correct persistent errors. This condition has become known as fossilization. This paper focuses on the fossilized pronunciation of the schwa sound in the speech of ATEL. It analyses the problem and propounds the factors behind this phenomenon.
Rites and rituals related to major events of human life like birth, marriage and death are preval... more Rites and rituals related to major events of human life like birth, marriage and death are prevalent from the infancy of human race in the world. The celebration of suchlike events varies as well as conforms in relation to the region, religion, language, class, caste and gender. In all communities around the world the birth of a child is considered as a blessing and ceremonies are held to celebrate this event. It seems as a moment of joy and happiness in the life of spouses and family members and they share it with their relatives and colleagues. However the celebrations regarding the birth of a child are conducted in multiple ways according to time and space. Post and pre delivery periods of pregnancy of a woman are also going through certain rites and rituals in various societies and religions. Here I try to scrutinize the major celebrations, rites and rituals of pre and post delivery period of a woman and child birth in a middle class Muslim family of Malabar through the textual narrations and sociological interpretations.
. In this essay, I argue that in addition to two haunting settings, an apparition, and an atypica... more . In this essay, I argue that in addition to two haunting settings, an apparition, and an atypical villain, the author adapts the gothic mode in depicting the danger caused by the disempowered, aimless, and intractable Hugo Montmorency. Following in the prose footprints of prior Irish writers Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, Bowen portrays Hugo Montmorency to suggest the dark, parasitic danger of suppressed masculine aggression upon modern women's lives and the Irish family unit.
The proverb goes, Jack of all trades, master of none. Everybody laughs at Jack for his superficia... more The proverb goes, Jack of all trades, master of none. Everybody laughs at Jack for his superficial knowledge but laughs for John (say) for his mastery. But today's master becomes a novice tomorrow due to fast advancement of knowledge and technology. Modern age is the age of interdisciplinary approach viz., Biophysics, Biochemistry, Psychophysiology, etc. As such present day master must have knowledge in different subjects. Expertise in one discipline renders him a marginal player. So today's master is Jack but not John. Thus we have pleaded for Jack the present day master but not John as others do. In some culture the phrase, "Jack of all trades" signifies superficial knowledge being Jack "master of none". But in some societies the phrase has different resonance, where "Jack of all trades" is generally considered a very positive trait and it is assumed that a Jack of all trades is someone who has, in fact, mastered those trades.
The IJHCS: International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies is a quarterly refereed and p... more The IJHCS: International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies is a quarterly refereed and peer reviewed e-journal. It publishes high quality and original unpublished research articles that deal with English language, humanities and cultural studies. Also, IJHCS welcomes book reviews and creative writings (poetry and short fiction). The journal is published in, March, June, September and December.
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Educational technologies are becoming increasingly important and promise to change the way studen... more Educational technologies are becoming increasingly important and promise to change the way students learn and teachers teach. However, technology has been around in language teaching for decades. For example, the blackboard, as a form of technology, has been used for centuries. Tape recorders, language labs and videos have been in use since the 1960s and 1970s, and are still used in classrooms around the world (Dudeny and Hockly, 2008).
The use of technology in the classroom is becoming increasingly important for the presentation of authentic materials and hopefully it will become a normal part of ELT practice in the coming years. Yet teacher training programs often ignore training in the use of ICT, and teachers are often far less skilled than their own students when it comes to using current technology.
This paper reports on technology in language teaching and the relation between technology and authentic materials. Particular emphases will be also placed on the lack of technology in our education system in general and the language centers in particular.
Key words: technology, authenticity, advantages, attitudes
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In this article, we deal with the long standing issue of the role of translation in lan... more Abstract
In this article, we deal with the long standing issue of the role of translation in language learning. Previously, it has been ruled out as, at best, inapplicable and, at worst damaging. Recent researches have tried to rebut these arguments proving how that for a language learning process, translations can prove to be quite helpful. This paper utilizes the existing researches and proposed models, however sporadic and scattered as they are, as well as the authors’ experiences in the fields of EFL and translation teaching. A language-learning-centred-translation practice is pressed for as the need for a clear description to highlight the applicability of translation in language teaching is immediate. After studying the existing work and correlating it to findings through experience, it can be concluded that translation when made recourse to in a proper language learning setting and within a well-set framework, can prove very useful.
Keywords: Pedagogical Translation, Language Learning and Teaching, Grammar Translation, Direct Method, Language-learning-centred-translation
In this article, I present the Transformational Model of Textual Activity (TMTA). It has been anc... more In this article, I present the Transformational Model of Textual Activity (TMTA). It has been anchored in Bhaskar´s critical realism. It is divided in four parts. Firstly, I outline elements of critical realism philosophy, discussing in particular the necessity of considering the ontology in the social sciences. Secondly, I present the methodological approach of critical discourse analysis and its relevance to critical social research. Thirdly, I illustrate a Transformational Model of Textual Activity, analyzing a text. And finally, I consider this approach to language to teacher education and social emancipation.
Key words: Transformational Model of Social Activity; Critical Realism; Critical Discourse Analysis; Transformational Model of Textual Activity
The act of writing, owing to the permanence it craves, may be said to be in continuous interactio... more The act of writing, owing to the permanence it craves, may be said to be in continuous interaction with the temporal flow of time. It continues to stimulate questions and open up avenues for discussion. Writing people, events and relationships into existence is a way of negotiating with the illusory. But writing falters. This paper attempts a reading of Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne in terms of power politics through the lens of the manipulation of written codes and inscriptions in the film. Identities and cultures are constructed through inscriptions and writings. But in the wrong hands, this medium of communication which has the potential to bring people together may wreck havoc on the social and political system. Writing, or the misuse of it, in the case of the film, reveals the nature of reality as provisional. If writing gives a seal of authenticity to a message, it can also become the casualty of its own creation.
Key words: Inscription, Power, Politics, Writing, Social system
Partly drawing on the postmodern theories formulated by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson an... more Partly drawing on the postmodern theories formulated by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson and Roland Barthes and partly treading on language theories developed by methodologists, curriculum specialists such as Patrick Slattery and Larsen-Freeman, I contend that postmodern language and literature pedagogy is characterized by the death of teacher, incredulity towards methodologies and blurring the binary opposition between teachers and students. Postmodern pedagogy deconstructs the notion of the teacher as the centre of epistemology, the authority and the controller. Student based learning becomes the focus of the classroom that dislocates the role and place of teacher from the centre of classroom to margin. The postmodern teacher provokes conversation and poses questions to the class. However, students eventually solve the problem as a group, blurring the hierarchical relation between instructors and learners.
Key Words: Pedagogy, postmodern, methodology, eclecticism, pastiche, metanarratives
Baz Luhmann’s 2001 Moulin Rouge saw the advent of theatricality in cinema, a performative event r... more Baz Luhmann’s 2001 Moulin Rouge saw the advent of theatricality in cinema, a performative event reconsidered by a number of films between 2011 and 2012. The controversial 2011 Anonymous, Roland Emmerich’s directorial endeavour on the authenticity of the Shakespearean plays, is followed by Tom Hooper’s Les Miserable and Joe Wright’s 2012 Anna Karenina that literally stages Leo Tolstoy’s canonical literary text. This paper critically examines what agency and affect mean in performative terms and how those relate to an ethics of the image, which the above films arguably indicate. This gesture in itself is an action that can be asserted as an indication of how formative an event can be in collective or communal senses just as it is for individual, creative autonomy, akin to George Steiner’s grammars of creation. While this is pertinent to the consciousness of the politics of identity and cultural constitutions, this paper investigates how this consciousness arises and the manner in which it translates to action, an investigation that entails an ethical reading of performativity and its significance in contemporaneity. In view of the communal and individual conscious or unconscious, a principle is ushered in to speak of the relational and participatory nature of the authorial text, the performative event and the audience that will have political and ethical implications in social interactions. The theatrical films can be argued as instances of such a principle that, according to Jacques Rancière in Mute Speech, is a principle dialectically conceived. And a dialectical conception of theatre and film indirectly attests to the interactive nature of the dramatic event, the audience and the authorial text that is critically commented in terms of affect and the viability of cultural agency in modernity. Multimodality informs this rethinking of theatre and cinema that also entails a re-conceptualisation of the other arts.
Keywords: Aesthetics, Culture, Freudian Psychoanalysis, Film, Representation/Presentation
Historical and literary narrative discourses from the 1790’s surrounding interpretations of Engli... more Historical and literary narrative discourses from the 1790’s surrounding interpretations of English identity were symptomatic of the inherited Augustan and Johnsonian social customs that posited cultural reevaluation as a nation-wide identitive endeavor. Though part of the critically neglected juvenilia, in Love and Friendship (1790) Austen’s satiric portrayal of her heroine’s upbringing reveals a shrewd perspective that mocks her culture’s anxiety to be forward thinking about its past lessons. The text judges the conservative character celebrated in the fiction and values of her childhood, positioned alongside a developing model of progressive Englishness. I recommend that the story’s first-person narrator’s nonalignment with either the conservative or progressive societal prescriptions that permeate the novel validates Jane Austen as an agentive, not reactionary, participant in the culture war she inherited. I argue that the text offers modern readers a new perspective for literary and historical revisionism of both the eighteenth-century mores that informed early nineteenth-century literary trends, and of narrative’s social function within this re-evaluative cultural model.
Keywords: Identity, Irony, Revisionism, Progressive, Conservative
Since the cloning of human beings has become technically conceivable, a controversial ethical deb... more Since the cloning of human beings has become technically conceivable, a controversial ethical debate on the desirability and admissibility of human cloning has evolved. The cloning technologist scientist spells out advantages that could be derived from human cloning, many of which were highly welcome by the advanced countries of the world, while some still subject it to serious debate on the acceptability of such scientific experiment in their society. But African view is radically different. African culture and belief about the human being is totally against human experimentation and therefore questions were raised on possibility of the success of this accomplishment, most especially on the status of children in an African setting. The paper concludes that Africans should stop living in the shadow of their past and cope with the new global advances.
Key words: Africa, Cloning, Ethical, Experiment, Scientific, Technology
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The use of technology in the classroom is becoming increasingly important for the presentation of authentic materials and hopefully it will become a normal part of ELT practice in the coming years. Yet teacher training programs often ignore training in the use of ICT, and teachers are often far less skilled than their own students when it comes to using current technology.
This paper reports on technology in language teaching and the relation between technology and authentic materials. Particular emphases will be also placed on the lack of technology in our education system in general and the language centers in particular.
Key words: technology, authenticity, advantages, attitudes
In this article, we deal with the long standing issue of the role of translation in language learning. Previously, it has been ruled out as, at best, inapplicable and, at worst damaging. Recent researches have tried to rebut these arguments proving how that for a language learning process, translations can prove to be quite helpful. This paper utilizes the existing researches and proposed models, however sporadic and scattered as they are, as well as the authors’ experiences in the fields of EFL and translation teaching. A language-learning-centred-translation practice is pressed for as the need for a clear description to highlight the applicability of translation in language teaching is immediate. After studying the existing work and correlating it to findings through experience, it can be concluded that translation when made recourse to in a proper language learning setting and within a well-set framework, can prove very useful.
Keywords: Pedagogical Translation, Language Learning and Teaching, Grammar Translation, Direct Method, Language-learning-centred-translation
Key words: Transformational Model of Social Activity; Critical Realism; Critical Discourse Analysis; Transformational Model of Textual Activity
Key words: Inscription, Power, Politics, Writing, Social system
Key Words: Pedagogy, postmodern, methodology, eclecticism, pastiche, metanarratives
Keywords: Aesthetics, Culture, Freudian Psychoanalysis, Film, Representation/Presentation
Keywords: Identity, Irony, Revisionism, Progressive, Conservative
Key words: Africa, Cloning, Ethical, Experiment, Scientific, Technology
The use of technology in the classroom is becoming increasingly important for the presentation of authentic materials and hopefully it will become a normal part of ELT practice in the coming years. Yet teacher training programs often ignore training in the use of ICT, and teachers are often far less skilled than their own students when it comes to using current technology.
This paper reports on technology in language teaching and the relation between technology and authentic materials. Particular emphases will be also placed on the lack of technology in our education system in general and the language centers in particular.
Key words: technology, authenticity, advantages, attitudes
In this article, we deal with the long standing issue of the role of translation in language learning. Previously, it has been ruled out as, at best, inapplicable and, at worst damaging. Recent researches have tried to rebut these arguments proving how that for a language learning process, translations can prove to be quite helpful. This paper utilizes the existing researches and proposed models, however sporadic and scattered as they are, as well as the authors’ experiences in the fields of EFL and translation teaching. A language-learning-centred-translation practice is pressed for as the need for a clear description to highlight the applicability of translation in language teaching is immediate. After studying the existing work and correlating it to findings through experience, it can be concluded that translation when made recourse to in a proper language learning setting and within a well-set framework, can prove very useful.
Keywords: Pedagogical Translation, Language Learning and Teaching, Grammar Translation, Direct Method, Language-learning-centred-translation
Key words: Transformational Model of Social Activity; Critical Realism; Critical Discourse Analysis; Transformational Model of Textual Activity
Key words: Inscription, Power, Politics, Writing, Social system
Key Words: Pedagogy, postmodern, methodology, eclecticism, pastiche, metanarratives
Keywords: Aesthetics, Culture, Freudian Psychoanalysis, Film, Representation/Presentation
Keywords: Identity, Irony, Revisionism, Progressive, Conservative
Key words: Africa, Cloning, Ethical, Experiment, Scientific, Technology
Keywords: Menstruation, Women, Rights, Cycle, Scripture
This leads to the tendency of the parties concerned to fail to occupy defined positions in the identification of the dynamics of inner conflict, as well as to highlight aspects of the couple relationship by minimising the danger of the aggressive behaviour of the male/female partner.
Official data relating to the issue in Italy underlines the need to combat the phenomenon effectively by integrating interventions with timely and coordinated actions in the social, educational, informational and political environment in relation to sexual discrimination.
Keywords: Homosexual, intimate violence, same-sex couples, Italy
Key words: Langston Hughes, Composition Pedagogy, Humor Pedagogy, AAVE, code-meshing
Keywords: Standards, political discourse, military intervention, critical discourse analysis, positive self-representation, negative other-depiction
Keywords: appraisal, roles, warriors' guild, pre-colonial, security and challenges
Key words: Misleading status; international language; Communicative needs; National language(s)
Key words: Title, correlation, epigraph, meta-text, anacolutha.
Key words: Arabic media discourse, Addounia TV, inter-sectarian defamation, sex Jihad, Sexual rhetoric, Syrian revolution.
Keywords: Nigeria, Ghana, Civil War, Conflict, Biafra
Key Words: dream, imaginary, real, image, politic.
Key words: speech act, relation maxim, irrelevance, seriousness
Keywords: eco-criticism, capitalism, car culture, pollution, consumerism, space.
Keywords: cognition, social cognition, Discourse, Critical Discourse Analysis, Novel,
Modernity, Taboo
Key words: Mizrahi, Jews, Arabs, United States, identity.
Key words: cultures, Independent Churches, Gikuyu, liberation, religious syncretism.
Keywords: culture, humour, Internet-based media, stereotyping, political humour
Keywords: criteria, translation, corpus, evaluation, students, errors.
Keywords: Reading comprehension, Pre-reading activity, Cultural familiarity, Cultural unfamiliarity
Keywords: Excess, Ireland, Identity Crisis, Irish-American dream of Ethnic Integration, Self-Denigration, Self Glorification.
Key words: Inter-lingual transfers, Collocational knowledge, Fictional and dramatic texts, Military slang, Idiomatic expressions, Trans-cultural ambiguities.
Key words: class consciousness, transgression, sensuality, constructive, upper class, social reform.
Key words: Arendt, Patočka, human nature, “who am I,” action, nihilism
Key words: Discourse Analysis, Social Customs, Linguistic Analysis
Keywords: Love, Passion, Beauty, Parent, Physical
Key words: Preposition, Lexical, Class, Standard, Yoruba
Key words: Woman, Emancipation, Strategies of liberation, Phallocentrism, Self consciousness
Keywords: Dance, Communication, Kwagh-hir Theatre, Puppet Theatre
Key words: Gold Coast, Nigeria, British Colonies, Decolonization, Nationalism
Key words: Committed literature, Carribean literature, Creolity, Antillanity, Negritude
Key words: Parody, canon, colonial, postcolonial, subversion, silence
In this regard, this paper dwells upon the different excuses made as to why Westerns accord such importance to depicting Africa in their texts. More than this, it will venture into the ways wherein writers use images fraught with mystery in their writings to intrigue the curiosity of readers to read more and learn more about things and people from their homes without having to take the risk of venturing to get into close contact with the places or peoples being depicted.
Key words: Orientalism, Stereotypes, Textual journeys, Armchair travelers
This venue of analysis showed that through the strategic recurrent use of the first person singular and plural pronouns, Arafat is ‘stage-managing’ (Goffman, 1959, 1974, 1981) his audience and disclosing his micro-affiliations as a Palestinian, a leader, a legend but more importantly a political actor. This supports the claim that pronouns do not just do referring work but can also do identity work (Malone 1997; Ben Abdallah, 2005).
Key Words: pronouns, Social Acting, Impression Management, Social Identity Theory, Socio-Political Identity Display (SPID
Key words: Metafiction, narcissistic narrative, linguistic identity, diegetic identity, diegetic narcissism, linguistic narcissism, parody, mise en abyme, intertextuality, self-reflexivity
Keywords: trauma, testimony, female storytelling, memory, Algerian war of independence
Keywords: Efficient teacher, teacher personality, human characteristics, empathy, generosity
Key words: Lexeme, semantic meaning, sensory experience, cognitive processes
Key words: Media discourse, Speech Reportage, Critical Discourse Analysis, manipulation, ideology
Keywords: Saudi Arabia, English textbooks, culture, world system, state, switchboard
Key words: Immigration, Syrian and Lebanese, Brazil, expulsion
Keywords: Concept, Boundary, Indigenous Application, Boarder Lines, Bakassi, Cameroon, Nigeria
Keywords: Cameroonian, History, Nation, Colonial, Postcolonial
Keywords: Availability, Use, ICT, Library, Staff
contributions to the field of interdisciplinary studies in 2017. To that end, we are talking to Dr.
Nevena Stojanovic, Lecturer at West Virginia University, who in Fall 2017 had the honor to
serve as the Keynote Speaker and an Honorary Guest Speaker at two international
interdisciplinary conferences, organized by Advena World and held in the Washington, DC,
metro area, USA. On October 27, Stojanovic delivered the keynote address at the 2017 Global
Conference on Humanities, Literature, Cultures, and Arts, presenting her work on
interdisciplinary pedagogical methods. On December 1, she was an Honorary Guest Speaker at
the 2017 Global Conference on Research, Education, and Policy, where she presented her work
on digital humanities and radical performance art.
The methods that she recommends for teaching cultural texts of the past optimize students’
understanding and effective analysis of old writing styles across the disciplines. Similarly, her
study of the interplay of digital humanities and radical performance art delineates the path of the
integration of performance art into college education and of leading the students towards civic
engagement.
Dear Colleagues and Readers
I am so glad to present the sixth issue of the International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS). With this issue, the IJHCS enters its second year with more diligence and confidence. This sixth issue includes different research articles on various topics in humanities, linguistics and cultural studies both in English and French languages. This reflects the multidisciplinary, multilingual and interdisciplinary scope of the IJHCS. This new issue includes works of the research scholars from different countries such Barbados, Brunei, China, Fiji, France, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.
As usual, I sincerely thank our respected authors for selecting the IJHCS, our reviewers for reviewing the selected articles for this issue and the Administrative Board for its contribution to helping the IJHCS achieve this success.
With Best Regards,
Dr. Hassen Zriba
Editor-in-Chief
The International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS)
ijhcs.chief.editor@gmail.com
Keywords: Perspectives, Drama course, Annual graduation play
Keywords: euphemism, CDA, transgression, manipulation, K-device, hegemony
Keywords: The New York Times, Islam, Discourse, Op-Eds, Ideology
Applying Derridean deconstructive hermeneutics to the text of the play under discussion, the author of this paper introduces a new portrait of the personages of the play. The study will retrace the pathways of Western tradition of the metaphysics of presence and its compelling influences, which have proved to be the inhibiting and fossilizing deadlocks of aporia of meaning and authoritative structures of human thought to explore the new horizons. In its concluding mode, the study exposes preventive stumbling aporic blocks of centralized structure of the minds of characters in the given play.
Keywords: Jacques Derrida, deconstruction, metaphysics of presence and messianic, aporia, binary oppositions, delogocentrism
This paper attempts to outline the basic ideologies of childhood in the Romantic period and examines literary texts written for children by often neglected women authors Anna Letitia Barbauld and Sarah Trimmer.
Keywords: Romanticism, Romanticism thought, Children’s literature, education, child, eighteenth-century
Keywords: Bilingualism, Arabic, Saudi Arabia, code switching, syntax, children
Keywords : Errancy, maroons, incessant movement, separation, alienation, psychological torments, indeterminacy, evolution, incompleteness, inaccessibility, vagabondage, abandoned child, tossed to and fro, navétane, social disintegration
My paper examines how Thomas King has tampered with the Received Standard English in his writings, while making the language bear the burden of his unique communal experiences and perspectives. I explore the function of his hybridized broken English that opens up a dialogue between the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in a postcolonial context. King evinces that the Eurocentric value-additions have resulted in rampant vulgarization of a vast repertoire of indigenous customs, beliefs and idioms. In that light, I study the involvement of anthropology as a discipline with questionable intentions that has romanticized and fossilized the live reality of the indigenous ‘Other’.
I trace King’s position amid two opposing tendencies – of retrieval of a ‘pure’ pre-colonial past with the aid of native languages by dissociating them from English, and of reaching out to the global audience with the medium of ‘english’. Subsequently, I discuss the various features of King’s writings, such as maintaining gaps of silence, employing untranslated indigenous words and dealing with interchangeable dualities, which draws on Jacques Derrida’s concept of ‘aporia’. The tussle between content and form creates an open-endedness, impeding every kind of presuppositions that facilitate a ‘smooth’ Western readership.
Can the indigenous groups practice the same exclusivity within the scope of a radicalized ‘english’ that they previously used to enjoy in their respective aboriginal dialects? I argue that broken English/‘english’ can play the role of mouthpiece for these communities, and become an even more efficient medium for carrying the testimony of violence than the almost-defunct indigenous tongues.
Keywords: Broken English, Thomas King, postcolonial, anthropology, indigenous, aporia
As World War I marked a watershed for the early Arab pioneers who, after they decided to settle permanently in their host country, became part of the American society and the American body politic, World War II produced a much deeper impact, opening the door much wider to a new variety of Arab immigrants, educated, politically articulate, and with a better sense of nationality and identity. But the idea of an ethnic Arab community, capable of taking its own affairs in hand, really began to grow in the 1960s, and especially after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war when both newcomers and third-generation descendants of the first stock came to discover how one-sided and pro-Israeli the American media and the American policymakers were.
Despite the fact that the newly-arrived immigrants were mostly Muslim and were exceptionally keen on their cultural heritage, the political activism this paper seeks to address is expressly secular and includes people of all faiths and of no faith at all. This is first and foremost an attempt to scrutinize a mode of thinking of a community, still in search for a sense of identity, but firmly determined to participate effectively in the decision-making process. How could it overcome its “identity crisis” and achieve political cohesiveness? In other words, how could it reconcile its internal differences with the pragmatic need to unify for political efficacy? Such questions and others are worth tackling.
Keywords: Arab Americans, political exclusion, identity question, elections
Keywords: Mental illness, narrative, genre, social implications
Keywords: Born-to-die, Abiku, Ogbanje, Fate and Victim mothers
The study relied on documentary data and secondary sources like books, Newspapers, Articles, Journals, periodicals. The documentary data were sourced from intelligence reports, divisional reports, colonial letters, dispatches, government reports and correspondences. The data were subjected to internal and external criticisms for authentication and then to textual and contextual analyses.
The study found that crisis in Benin started in 1914 because the Iyase of Benin kingdom, Chief Agho Obaseki dominated the Benin political scene to the detriment of the newly crowned Oba, Eweka II. The study also found that the abolition of district headship generated more crises. The study demonstrated that Oba Akenzua II’s refusal to consult the people before signing the water rate regulation in 1939 led to attempt to depose him. The study also found that the denial of the educated elite in Benin to participate in Benin Native Administration was the last straw that broke the camel’s back.
Keywords: Crisis, Elite agitation, Oba (king), Confrontation, Resolution
Keywords: Multilingualism, language planning, language, Region, Society
Keywords: timed reading, reading speed, reading comprehension, Saudi Arabia
Keywords: Saudi Arabia, listening, listening test, Bloom's taxonomy
Keywords: Security crises, peace, prolonged nightmare, Sustainability, Assemblage, Boko Haram, Cameroon
Keywords: cultural maintenance, preservation, individual identity, tradition, cultural values
Keywords: refugee woman – narrative – content analysis – double consciousness
To manifest the relationship between language and power, the analysis is conducted within the framework of stylistics and critical discourse analysis. The researcher explores the linguistic features in some paragraphs and dialogues selected from the entire text so as to show how the government of Oceania controls the minds and actions of its inhabitants. Through such a framework of analysis, the thesis concludes that the totalitarian government manipulates language to dominate people, and language is not a social practice but it has political dimensions and regarded as a threat to the government if people can use it freely.
Keywords: 1984, stylistics, critical discourse analysis, language, power
Keywords: Patriarchy, Masculinity, Homosociality, Castration Threat, Eroticism
Keywords: trauma-realism-documentation-the public-commodification
Dear Colleagues and Readers
I am so glad to present the sixth issue of the International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS). With this issue, the IJHCS enters its second year with more diligence and confidence. This sixth issue includes different research articles on various topics in humanities, linguistics and cultural studies both in English and French languages. This reflects the multidisciplinary, multilingual and interdisciplinary scope of the IJHCS. This new issue includes works of the research scholars from different countries such Barbados, Brunei, China, Fiji, France, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates.
As usual, I sincerely thank our respected authors for selecting the IJHCS, our reviewers for reviewing the selected articles for this issue and the Administrative Board for its contribution to helping the IJHCS achieve this success.
With Best Regards,
Dr. Hassen Zriba
Editor-in-Chief
The International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS)
Keywords: Identity, hidden identity, gendered-based identities, self-disclosure, disguised chat
Keywords: Pedagogical Humour, Students’ Learning, Mimicry, Mockery
This research will pose a number of key questions and it will address the main topics discussed by the two authors. It will begin by examining the texts analyzing why Jean Anouilh chose mythology to show the reality of his society of the time. The research will explore how social and political conditions witnessed by the authors in their countries formed their political and philosophical thoughts and undoubtedly influenced their writing.
Medea is a drama of No and resistance. Euripides and Jean Anouilh have used this classic myth to address and focus on the various social and political issues that prevailed in society in their time. Anouilh’s Medea was written two years after Antigone and the same themes recur in Medea.
Keywords: Medea, Happiness, Exile, Abnormality, Revenge, the other
Materials are drawn from the rich stock of traditional Yoruba proverbs while two novels by Chinua Achebe’s: No Longer at Ease and T. A. Awoniyi’s Aiye kooto analyse the ingredients necessary for the creation of a ‘total man’. They also provide veritable socio-political backgrounds for an adequate comparison of the various concept of education churned up in the process.
It was established in this paper that traditional Yoruba concept of economic development is at variance with the modern concepts since traditionally, Yoruba society placed high premium on human development as opposed to those we term ‘naira and kobo’ inherent in the modern concept of economic development. The paper symbolises the failure of the current education system by its products exemplified by the ill-trained and corrupt elite at the helms of affairs in the country. The paper reiterates how Nigerians can maintain a symbiotic African traditional education system and the modern formal one as one of the ways capable of guaranteeing the formation of a ‘total man’. The paper sees the ‘total man’ as the alternative to currently evolved individuals that are ill-trained ethically and mentally to fast-track the development of African continent on the social, political and economic fronts.
The importance of this paper rests on its interdisciplinary assessment and use of African cultural perspective, literature and myths to analyse the role of culture in African development.
Keywords: Total man, economic development, omoluwabi, education, training
Mots clés: sociolinguistique, la tonalité, le problème culturel
Keywords: Marital Freedom, Saturday Punch Newspaper, Diction, Empowerment, Divorce Registers
Keywords: Nigeria, History, Development, Nation
Keywords: narrativity, mimesis, historical discourse, literary discourse, representation, knowledge, emplotement
Keywords: Body, spirit, semantic implications, shirk, carpe diem
Keywords: philanthropy language, maxims, construction
The verbal violence found in the political discourse of mainly all the political parties has created other forms of violence that were really destructive: the assassination of political figures and terrorism. Since then, the country has undergone a great division and the violence of some ones terrifies and threatens the security and serenity of the others. As a result, this violence and terrorism gave birth to the “world weariness” (the pain of being) and after the “neurosis” (la névrose) on this pacific Tunisian people.
Keywords : Tunisia, revolution, communication, violence, neurosis
This paper seeks to apply Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalysis in reading Keats’s epistle. Much concentration is going to be put on the relevance of Kristeva’s psychoanalytical views in the text of the epistle. Thus, this study requires going through the theoretical elucidations of Kristeva’s notions of the ‘semiotic’ versus ‘symbolic’ orders, where the former is pre-linguistic and, therefore, maps out the child’s early life and the latter coincides with the development of language. The clash between both orders is manifested in the frequent disruption of the ‘semiotic’ (which is regulated by fluidity and absence of prohibitions whatsoever) to the seamy fabrics of the ‘symbolic’ (which is governed by the law of ‘binarism’ that requires the subject to be enlisted to a whole set of do’s and don’ts).
Keywords: chora, écriture, imagination, material sublime, organic whole, semiotic vs. symbolic orders
Keywords: Arab-American Muslim community, immigration, Islam, assimilation, American New Right
Keywords: Nigeria, Yorubaland, Akungba-Akoko, Security, African Socialism and Development
Keywords: palm kernels, colonial rule, marketing, Igala
The study relied on both oral interviews and documentary data. The oral data were based on unstructured interviews with the Odionwere (Oldest man in Ughoton), Ohen –Okun (The Chief Priest of Olokun temple) and other elders in Ughoton. The documentary data were sourced from intelligence reports, divisional reports, colonial letters, dispatches, government reports and correspondences. The data were subjected to internal and external criticisms for authentication and then to textual and contextual analyses.
The study found that Prince Ekaladerhan, the only child of ogiso Owodo, the last Ogiso of Ogiso dynasty was the founder of Ughoton in about the eleventh century. The study also found that from the fifteenth century Ughoton was the port of Benin kingdom during the period of Benin Portuguese trade relations. The study demonstrated that this trade brought a lot of benefits to the people of Ughoton, Benin kings and the Europeans. It was discovered that, the trade declined due to bad climatic conditions, the Benin’s refusal to accept Christianity fully and that the trade did not bring the expected returns.
Keywords: Trade, Diplomacy, Relations, Port, Decline
Keywords: Globalization, localization, homogenization, Westernization, hybridization, culture, identity, geography, nation-state, 9/11
Keywords: Variability, Noticing hypothesis, L2 writing, Correction tasks
Keywords: Monozygotic twins, Dizygotic twins, Separation-individuation process, social interaction, Italy
Keywords: Beliefs, Perceptions, Attitude, Communicative Language Learning (CLT), Structural Approach (SA), English Language Instructions.
Keywords: Traditional belief, Magiro, Fakkawa.
Keywords: Intertextuality, The New York Times, Muslims, Op-Eds, Voices, Quotations.
Mots clés: liberté, limite de liberté, culture, langage yorouba.
Marlow's obsession with and apologetic attitude towards the evil Kurtz is another problematic issue in the novella. Since Kurtz is dead according to Marlow's own account and, therefore, belongs to the past, then Marlow's present justification is not so much slanted towards him who is long since dead as it is towards him who is still living. So, apparently Marlow has a vested interest that goes beyond the customary bond and sympathy between two company employees. Can it perhaps be that Kurtz, in the final analysis, is an alter ego of Marlow? Or an embodiment of a dark phase in Marlow's life in the Congo—a phase that he now prefers to suppress and deny? These questions, however unassumingly raised, tend to vitiate the realistic existence of a person named Kurtz. And indeed, there is in the novella enough textual evidence that lends reasonable credence to this argument.
Keywords: Heart of Darkness, the uncanny, alter ego, Marlow-Kurtz imbroglio, catharsis by narration.
Keywords: Pidgin, De Wahala for Wazobia, Sociopolitical challenges, lingua franca, acceptability.
Keywords: conceptual metaphor, Sufi discourse, context, metaphorical creativity
Keywords : anthroplogy, mimetic desire, humor, knight-errantry, mediation, parody, rivalry
Until the 1970s, Arab and Muslim immigrants had been a neglected dimension in either American or French ethnic and religious history. But the rise in the number of such foreign-born residents in both countries added to the growing fear over the upsurge of Islamic fundamentalism, and generated considerable interest and public debate on how well these groups would assimilate into the mainstream culture of their host societies and fit within a pre-established order.
This paper not only aims to cast a fresh and objective look into how American and French citizens of Arab and Muslim descent adjust to their new environment, but also attempts to provide some insights into how the United States and France accommodate Islam, as both nations, because of their different immigration histories and their relatively diverging ideologies, do not have a communality of views on how society should be structured and organized.
Two elements have been decisive for such a study: first, my experience in France as a postgraduate student at Sorbonne University, second, the research I conducted in 2004 on Arab Americans as Senior Fulbright at the Center for Arab American Studies, at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Both encounters not only helped me draw a number of conclusions regarding the respective experiences of two communities, united by common historical and cultural ties, but so different as to the way they adapt to their host societies. They especially enhanced my understanding of what it really means to be Arab or Muslim in France and in the United States.
To support the research’s central point, a number of questions will be addressed: Are Arab-Americans in general and American Muslims in particular unwilling to assimilate? Is Islam inherently incompatible with Western and Judeo-Christian values? Should policymakers see Islam as the enemy of the West? Should the prevalent anti-Americanism in the Arab and Muslim world be understood within the broader context of “clash of civilizations” or “war of religions”, as stressed by some scholars, or should it be considered as a “natural response” to a temporary conjuncture necessitating reconsideration and change? Finally, what role should Arab and Muslim leaders in both countries play to provide community stability and maintain their identity in an ever-changing world?
Keywords: Arab Americans, American Muslims, French Arabs and Muslims, American Muticulturalism, French Ethno-pluralism, Assimilation.
Keywords : Belonging - subjectivity - body - language - psychosis - the Real - the Symbolic - deconstruction
This paper studies the extent to which increased media reporting on Islam and Muslims in the US after 9/11 represents a step forward in combating century-long Orientalist stereotypes and segmented narratives about this world religion and its followers by analyzing the news and newspaper transcripts of Fox News, CNN, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Sun-Times covering Islam and American Muslims during the first two years of America’s war on terrorism.
Keywords: American Muslims, Orientalism, US media, September 11, war on terrorism, stereotypes.
Keywords: Double, Psychopath, Crime, R.D: Laing, Cleckley, Hare.
Keywords: travel writing, Africa, Victorian age, cultural diversity, religion, spirituality, identity
Accordingly, the value of trip stands in the significance of self-achievement as an existential experience set within and between cosmic powers painted through a world of symbols out of the ordinary and yet highly vivid. Trip becomes the human essence moving throughout cosmic forces that stand as a way for self-accomplishment, which is the major meaning of life. Both Kaidara and The Choice of a Ori are stories of African oral heritage presenting heroes who are expected to explore humanity through the gates of physic and metaphysic arena. They respectively belong to Peulh and Yoruba cultures, stand as some oral art material transmitted through generations and are told by literary figures. Centered on this varied material, this paper aims at examining the similarities and differences of trip resonances in these stories, through characterization, time and space, in a perspective of reviewing the rich parallelism of art forms from different cultures. A major task of this work is to locate the accomplishment of human being, society and Africa in general within the symbolism of trip as quest in oral art’s creative impulse.
Key words: Ori, Kaidara, trip, self-accomplishment, creative impulse
Keywords: decolonization, British colonies, empire, post colonial, subaltern, Literature, history, mise en intrigue, metaphor
Keywords: Shari’ah court, Dato’ Yuthitham, Thai court jurisdiction, Islamic family law.
Keywords: trauma, belatedness, incubation period, transference, crypt.
Order and disorder are often important issues in the Shakespearean tragedy of Macbeth (and in fact, in all Shakespearean plays). The scientific concept of ‘entropy’ which carries the meanings of disorder and uncertainty will be discovered on a metaphorical level. Hence, it will be relevant to represent the entropic historical context of the play, the entropic world of Scotland after the murder of King Duncan, the entropic characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth after committing the crime and the entropic language that characterizes the play.
Keywords: disorder, entropy, pessimist, metaphorical level, entropic historical context, entropic world of Scotland, entropic characters, entropic language.
(Volume 6, Issue 2, September 2019)
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I am so glad to present Volume 3, Issue 4 of the International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies (IJHCS). The IJHCS has moved to its more advanced and technically rich website through the use of the popular Open Journal System. This, of course, reflects the depth of the work being done in our journal.
The journal keeps faith in multidisciplinary perspective. Articles published in this issue, reflect different theoretical and applied concerns in humanities, cultural studies, management, linguistic studies among other disciplines. As a matter of fact, this new issue includes works of the research scholars from different countries which reflected the international nature and scope of the journal.
As usual, I sincerely thank our respected authors for selecting the IJHCS, our reviewers for reviewing the selected articles for this issue and the Administrative Board for its contribution to helping the IJHCS achieve this success. Next issue will be published in June 2017 and your valuable contributions are welcome till 20 May 2017.
With Best Regards,