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Choudhary, Preeti. "East Meets West In the Fiction of Kamala Markandaya." Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education 15, no. 7 (September 1, 2018): 92–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.29070/15/57801.
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Mok, Olivia. "Translational migration of martial arts fiction East and West." Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 13, no. 1 (November 8, 2001): 81–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/target.13.1.06mok.
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This paper explores the translational phenomenon of why so little of martial arts fiction has been translated into Western languages, compared to the copious amount into other Asian languages. Investigation into the translational migration of martial arts fiction demonstrates that the “normal” position assumed by translated literature tends to be a peripheral one. However, different patterns of behaviour can be observed, depending on the hegemonic relations between source and target cultures. In the West, martial arts fiction in English translation is being relegated to an extremely peripheral position. But martial arts fiction is able to make inroads into Asian countries, to the extent of stimulating a new literary form or (re)writing martial arts fiction in some indigenous languages.
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Brodersen, Ingke. "East-West clash in publishing non-fiction." Publishing Research Quarterly 14, no. 2 (June 1998): 53–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12109-998-0024-5.
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Rauwerda, Antje. "East, West Fiction is Best: Rushdie Writes Community." South Asian Review 23, no. 2 (December 2002): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2002.11932279.
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Dr. Allah Yar Saqib and Dr. Saira Irshad. "Mustafa Karim’s as a Fiction Writer: An Overview." DARYAFT 15, no. 01 (June 22, 2023): 96–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.52015/daryaft.v15i01.293.
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Mustafa Karim is an epoch-making fiction writer of Urdu who, while maintaining the tradition of fiction, has also given new freshness to the eastern and western perspective of fiction. His fictions are excellent in terms of technical, artistic and thematic aspects, while the themes are East and West society, World War I and II, partition of India, migration problems, violence in religions, human tolerance, class division and psychology, problems of immigrants. , made the theme of sexual freedom and promiscuity. Most of his fiction depicts the life of immigrants and emigrants. Echoes of the past, consciousness and narrative style have been adopted in these legends. Every Short story is a manifestation of tragedy, sorrow, and suffering. This article gives a brief overview of his short stories.
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Davis, Rocío. "SALMAN RUSHDIE'S EAST, WEST: PALIMPSESTS OF FICTION AND REALITY." Passages 2, no. 1 (2000): 81–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156916700745874.
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Ahmed, Hazhar Ramadhan. "The Formularization of the East Simulacrum in the Poetic Consonance of Walter De La Mare." Journal of University of Raparin 7, no. 1 (January 9, 2020): 563–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.26750/vol(7).no(1).paper29.
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The desideratum of this paper is to pageant of the formularization of the East simulacrum in the poetic consonance of Walter De La Mare, De La Mare always been known as a writer of fantasy, imagination world and supernatural fiction in English literature, it is proposed here that he is, in fact concerned with exploration of the conscious and unconscious selves.
His inspection is more philosophical than psychological in that he makes no use of Freud formulas. He follows rather the intuitive path of Jung but uses the media of fiction; Display and formulation the simulacrum theme in two sonnets of De La Mare ''Arabia & Listener '' characterize the imagination world of the East.
East fantasy for De La Mare is pure and marvelous creation which seemed he merged the fantasy cosmos of the East, even supposing Walter De La Mare wants to involving and remain in the nature of the East not in the West creation by virtue of him in distinction to the West, according to his verses of Walter De La Mare ''Arabia &Listeners '' there is no ambiguity that nature in the East more applicable for live than nature in the West.
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Prasad, Amar Nath. "The Non-fictions of V.S. Naipaul: A Critical Exploration." Creative Saplings 1, no. 8 (2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.56062/gtrs.2022.1.8.168.
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V. S. Naipaul is an eminent literary figure in the field of modern fiction, non-fiction, and travelogue writing in English literature. He earned a number of literary awards and accolades, including the covetous Nobel Prize and Booker Prize. His non-fiction e.g., An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization, The Loss of El Dorado, India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief are a realistic portrayal of the various types of religion, culture, customs, and people of India. As an author, the main purpose of V. S. Naipaul is to deliver the truth; because poets are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind. The fact that V. S. Naipaul has presented in his non-fiction is more authentic and realistic than that of his fiction. Nonetheless, it is fictional work that is elaborately explored, discussed, and analyzed in abundance. On the other hand, his non-fiction, by and far, remains aloof. In the last few decades, non-fictions are also taking the ground strongly. Now non-fiction writings are being analyzed, elucidated, and explored based on various theoretical principles of literary criticism. V. S. Naipaul carried the new genre to new heights and achievements. He is of Indian descent and known for his pessimistic works set in developing countries. He visited India several times, like Pearl S. Buck and E. M. Forster. So, his presentation of Indian religion, society, culture, and politics are very realistic. His vision and ideas are very close to the modern thoughts and visions of both the east and the west.
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Kopf, Martina. "Encountering development in East African fiction." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 54, no. 3 (May 25, 2017): 334–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989417707801.
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In this article I address how East African writers have responded to and conceptualized the encounter with development in works of fiction. The article combines two lines of enquiry: first, a historical perspective on “development” as a history of changing and conflicting meanings and practices in planning and controlling social and economic change, and, second, a narrative studies perspective on fiction as a source of knowledge in social and political research. The article presents an analysis of two novels and a short story from Uganda and Kenya: Akiki Nyabongo’s The Story of an African Chief (1935), Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road (1976), and Binyavanga Wainaina’s Discovering Home (2003). The texts are from three different historical periods from the colonial past to the present. Bringing them into dialogue with institutional discourses relevant to their respective periods, I argue that these works of fiction open up a unique understanding of key issues and problems in development thinking and planning. Furthermore, my analysis sheds a different light on critical debates that perceive the “development encounter” as a story of the “West versus the rest”. Instead, this essay links recent trends in writing to more entangled histories of development.
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Zabus, Chantal, André Viola, Jacqueline Bardolph, and Denise Coussy. "New Fiction in English from Africa: West, East, and South." World Literature Today 74, no. 2 (2000): 339. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40155586.
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Aravamudan, Srinivas. "East-West Fiction as World Literature: The Hayy Problem Reconfigured." Eighteenth-Century Studies 47, no. 2 (2014): 195–231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2014.0001.
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Avarvarei, Simona Catrinel. "When West Met East and Bloomed its Cherries." Linguaculture 13, no. 2 (December 31, 2022): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2022-2-0311.
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This paper builds itself on the story of Collingwood Ingram as elaborated by the journalist and non-fiction writer Naoko Abe in her book The Sakura Obsession - The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms published in the United States, in March 2019, after it had been first launched in Japan, three years earlier, in the same spring month of 2016. This is the Story, with capital S, as C.S. Lewis would have referred to it, in that that it bestows upon the reader “unexpectedness . . . that delights” (Lewis, On Stories), describing an epiphanic encounter of East and West which restored the fading colours of cherry blossoms on the ‘woodblock prints’ of the realm of the Rising Sun.
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Karim, Dr Asim. "Reason, Enlightenment and Religion: An Evaluation of the Conditions of Lisa Lu's "Re-Orientalism" in Contemporary Pakistani Anglophone Fiction." Bahria University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 6, no. 1 (June 27, 2023): 39–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.58800/bujhss.v6i1.160.
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Orientalism by Edward Said is the standard explanation of determining the West in relation to the East. However, Lisa Lu has reinvigorated it through her notion of re Orientalism, which aims to redefine West/East binaries in order to revitalize the image of the East. In contrast to Said's "Orientalism," which focuses on how the West builds the "Orient" and the "Occident," this theory looks at how eastern cultural producers respond to an "Orientalized" East and whether they choose to conform to or subvert the expectations of Western readers.In this perspective, the research interprets a selection of Anglophone Pakistani fiction. The major theoretical area of the critical debate here is to see where Pakistani writers practice re-orientalist discourse and where they are taking the burden of independent representation (the core element of re-Orientalism). The paper argues that most Pakistani fiction as for instance The Wasted Vigil by Nadeem Aslam fails to reorient the narratives along the lines mentioned below. First, it fails to reorient incompatible views of religion, reason, logic, and contemporary enlightenment. Second, it fails to reorient the beliefs linked with fanaticism and Muslimness by submitting to a stereotyped interpretation of religious extremism. Thirdly, it fails to distinguish between religious and Islamic attitudes and the cultural and political marginalization of Pakistani minorities.
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Wang, Jijia. "Analysis of Historical Views in The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary." Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 11 (November 22, 2023): 110–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/fhss.v3i11.5752.
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As a highly regarded Chinese-American science fiction writer, Liu Yukun’s science fiction The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary published in 2012 combines science fiction elements with historical event against the background of Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army’s violent behavior in Harbin, showcasing the views of the East and West on Chinese traumatic history. This article combines new historicism to examine the relationship between history and individuals within the text, as well as the historical views upheld by all parties.
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Cooke, Brett. "Dystopian Fiction East and West: Universe of Terror and Trial (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 50, no. 2 (2004): 534–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2004.0024.
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Nakhjavani, Bahiyyih. "Fact and Fiction." Journal of Bahá’í Studies 10, no. 3-4 (September 1, 2000): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31581/jbs-10.3-4.449(2000).
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We have inherited an uneasy legacy of tension, in the East and West, between “fact” and “fiction,” between objective history and our many relative and subjective “stories,” between art as the representation of reality and faith based on the Word of God. Depending on how this tension has been “read” and “written” into action, our civilizations in the past have produced beauty or horror, high culture or blind prejudice. But while we may have inherited “facts” like these from the past, our future can only be created by the power of the imagination to believe, by the spiritual force of our lives which material civilization calls “fictions.” As Bahá’ís and believers in the cycle of Divine Unity, we have inherited a weighty responsibility to resolve this tension creatively and our common future, as a dynamic, diverse, and spiritual civilization, depends on it. The task of distinguishing “fact” from “fiction” in an age of maturity is a shared one. The question that must shape our words and deeds at the present hour, therefore, is not only who will write the future but also who will read it.
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Witkowsky, Paul. "If Prairies Had Trees: East, West, Environmentalist Fiction, and the Great Plains." Western American Literature 28, no. 3 (1993): 195–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wal.1993.0166.
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Ben-Ami, Naama. "Arab Representations of the Occident." American Journal of Islam and Society 25, no. 2 (April 1, 2008): 128–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v25i2.1481.
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In his Orientalism (Vintage Books: 1978), literature teacher and culturalcritic Edward Said claimed that the entire corpus of academic, literary, andartistic knowledge about the Orient in general and theMuslim world in particularthat the West had accumulated and shaped was built up solely toserve its desire to conquer, control, and subjugate the Orient. His thesis waswidely discussed and influenced the study of the Middle East and the attitudesof numerous scholars.According to Said, theWest depicts the Orientas stagnant, static, exotic, submissive, and retarded, in contrast to the supposedlyenlightened and superior West. Some thirty years after the furor caused by this book, Rasheed El-Enany’s Arab Representations of the Occident: East-West Encounters inArabic Fiction challenges Said’s theory, at least with respect toArabic literature.El-Enany claims that Said only presented the western perspective andignored the Oriental resistance to it. In response, he presents the East-Westencounter through his own eyes, those of anArab intellectual who was bornand raised in Cairo and moved to Great Britain in 1977 during his twenties ...
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Soumya Samanta. "East-West Dichotomy in Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle." Creative Launcher 6, no. 4 (October 30, 2021): 198–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.4.30.
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Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle is a historical novel that is set during the Ottoman reign. The novel presents the metaphysical opposition of East and West, self and the other, intuition and reason, mysticism, science and global and local, and the recurring issues of conflict of civilization, identity crisis, and cultural variations. Orhan Pamuk as a postmodern writer tries to bridge the gap between the East and the West through his writings. Although Turkey is at the backdrop in most of his novels, the treatment of themes is universal. The paper proposes the theory of Orientalism by Edward Said, which represents the encounter and treatment of the "Orient." The concept of identity expressed by Pamuk in his wide range of novels also can be related to the “Orient” and “Occident.” The culture of the East has always been portrayed as the binary opposite of Europe in history and fiction. The loss of identity of the East reflected in the works of Pamuk is an outcome of the clash between East and Europe, further leading to chaotic contexts and dilemmatic protagonists. Individuals unable to choose between the traditional self and the fashionable West mourn the lost identity of a country and their self.
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Jarkas, Najla. "West Meets East as Monks Purge 'Infidels' in The Historian." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 9, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 37–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.9.1.3.
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One more time, a work featuring the grotesque figure of the vampire emerges from the shackles of the Middle Ages to top the list of recent fiction best sellers. Already being translated into thirty-five languages and having been purchased for two million dollars from its first time novelist even before its publication, The Historian (2005) by Elisabeth Kostova entraps its readers in a series of breath-taking events promising to unravel deeply hidden ancient secrets and crucial truths. This paper looks at these so-called deeply held secrets showing that through the genre of the fantastic, rather than escape and evade reality, the writer has negotiated contemporary cultural anxieties and conflicts. These are referred to in the title of this article, the age old battle between West and East and how the West perceives this clash in the form of an exonerating battle between Good and Evil, or in this case between Monks and ‘Infidels’..
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Buitenhuis, Peter. "Dystopian Fiction East and West: Universe of Terror and Trial by Erika Gottlieb." ESC: English Studies in Canada 28, no. 4 (2002): 761–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esc.2002.0021.
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Ichim, Mihaela. "Cultural Images of the East and West in Elif Shafak's Novels." Linguaculture 13, no. 2 (December 31, 2022): 75–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/lincu-2022-2-0316.
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This article is intended to discuss the images of the East and West as they are portrayed in Elif Shafak’s novels, with emphasis on the ethnic cliches and stereotypes which are often engendered in and disseminated through fiction. More specifically, it examines how the novelist depicts Turkish and Oriental culture, often in contrast with its Western counterpart, through the complex and insightful images she skillfully creates. The theoretical part of the article relies on the seminal works of imagologists such as Joep Leerssen and Manfred Beller, who have laid the foundations for the study of cultural images, with emphasis on their shifting, dynamic and context-dependent nature, as well as on David Katan’s logical levels of culture, which are used as a starting point for the analysis of the similarities and differences between the East and the West as represented in Shafak’s work.
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Shumaila Fatma. "Treatment of History in Select Contemporary Indian English Novels." Creative Launcher 5, no. 4 (October 30, 2020): 60–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2020.5.4.11.
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History and fiction share one trait in common and that is recording of events past, incidence, personalities, movements, etc. the difference between history and fiction is that history takes an objective view of the events whereas fiction takes a creative sweep. Both chronicle formation, development and evolution of nations in their own way. History fiction interface therefore becomes a virgin track to till for the Indian English novelist. Shashi Tharoor in The Great Indian Novel (1989), Geeta Mahta in Raj (1988) and Kiran Nagarkar in Cuckold (1997) explore this interface in their unique ways. Tharoor tries to atone himself with his present retrospectively with the help of history. Geeta Mehta tries to coalate east –west encounter along with cultural issues, historical facts and fantasy, realism and socio-political features at the time of independence. Kiran Nagarkar tries to achieve a transformation in the history or the lack of it.
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Coates, Oliver. "New Perspectives on West Africa and World War Two." Journal of African Military History 4, no. 1-2 (October 26, 2020): 5–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00401007.
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Abstract Focusing on Anglophone West Africa, particularly Nigeria and the Gold Coast (Ghana), this article analyses the historiography of World War Two, examining recruitment, civil defence, intelligence gathering, combat, demobilisation, and the predicament of ex-servicemen. It argues that we must avoid an overly homogeneous notion of African participation in the war, and that we should instead attempt to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, as well as differentiating in terms of geography and education, all variables that made a significant difference to wartime labour conditions and post-war prospects. It will show how the existing historiography facilitates an appreciation of the role of West Africans in distinct theatres of combat, and examine the role of such sources as African war memoirs, journalism and photography in developing our understanding of Africans in East Africa, South and South-East Asia, and the Middle East. More generally, it will demonstrate how recent scholarship has further complicated our comprehension of the conflict, opening new fields of study such as the interaction of gender and warfare, the role of religion in colonial armed forces, and the transnational experiences of West Africans during the war. The article concludes with a discussion of the historical memory of the war in contemporary West African fiction and documentary film.
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Aman, Mashaal, and Shamaila Dodhy. "ESSENTIALIZED REPRESENTATION OF THE EAST: A REORIENTALIST STUDY OF SELECTED PAKISTANI DIASPORIC ANGLOPHONE FICTION." Pakistan Journal of Social Research 04, no. 01 (March 31, 2022): 921–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v4i1.984.
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The present study is oriented to sift the theory of reorientalism that the Pakistani diasporic writers use as a tool to represent an essentialised and glorified picture of their native land. Unlike orientalism, reorientalism deals with how the East is presented as a spectacle of consumption in the West by the Eastern writers themselves. This study examines the issue of literary representation at the global level which goes through Western gatekeepers for publication. Pakistani diasporic writers are instigating a simulated truth instead of a holistic portrayal of 21st century Pakistan by culturally appropriating and mimicking their native cultural and regional aspects. This study proposes that these writers are marketed as insiders by the West but in actuality, they are outsiders as they have lost touch with their roots. The critique of the selected text highlights that contemporary Pakistani fiction requires radical epistemic delinking from the colonial matrix of power and aims to highlight the establishment of epistemic pluriversality and calls for an end of cultural and epistemic exploitation and hierarchies among several epistemologies Keywords: commodification, cultural appropriation, epistemic pluriversality, essentialism, mis-representation, reorientalism
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Casini, Lorenzo. "Arab Representations of the Occident. East–West Encounters in Arabic Fiction, by Rasheed el-Enany." Middle Eastern Literatures 12, no. 2 (August 2009): 200–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14752620902951249.
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Snigireva, Tatyana A., and Alexey V. Podchinenov. "“But There Is No East and Also No West”: Overcoming National Barriers in Akunin’s Way." Izvestia of the Ural federal university. Series 2. Humanities and Arts 25, no. 1 (2023): 111–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/izv2.2023.25.1.007.
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This article analyses Boris Akunin’s writing concept of national identity and the possibility or impossibility of overcoming cross-national non-communication. The analysis is based on Akunin’s texts of different genres (the Erast Fandorin’s Adventures project, Tales from All Over the World, and Russian Man in England, a self-study book on fiction). It is noted that the “solution of the national question” during the thirty years of the writer’s work in literature has undergone certain changes. The authors demonstrate that in the Fandorin project, Boris Akunin focuses on modelling and describing three barriers that exist in the perception and evaluation of the unfamiliar (the barrier of a foreign language, the barrier of a foreign way of life, and the barrier of foreign mentality). In Tales from All Over the World, the writer takes a different perspective of understanding the national complex. He is interested in the correlation between the national and the universal. This book is about the fact that national identity is nothing but a variant of an invariant, it comprehends universal values in a national arrangement. The self-study book on fiction Russian Man in England can be read as Akunin’s final reflections on the possibility or impossibility of cross-national understanding. The analysis of this work demonstrates that it is a book of professional and national self-identification at the same time. Akunin does not simplify the possibilities of interethnic dialogue. According to the writer’s concept, it is necessary not to adapt to a different national way of life, but to understand it. Only then does the formula “they are like me” begin to “work” realising itself extremely rarely and always incompletely. An attempt to understand a different mentality presupposes a whole complex of personal qualities, which is based on the ability for dialogue, analytics, intellectuality, cultural baggage and, most importantly, humanity.
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Uzma Munir and Memoona Asif. "Racism and Alienation in Postcolonial Context: A Study of Tariq Rehman’s Short Story “BINGO”." ANNALS OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND PERSPECTIVE 5, no. 1 (March 29, 2024): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/assap.v5i1.347.
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Referring to the phenomenon of racism and alienation in Pakistani literature, it is first advantageous to examine Pakistan’s Postcolonial democracy. Pakistan was colonized under British rule for 90 years and got its independent recognition in 1947. In 1971, the political and social conflicts fueled the armed forces to start a third war between India and Pakistan. Consequently, East Pakistan (i.e., present Bangladesh) formally separated from West Pakistan. This paper focuses on two major dimensions of postcolonialism i.e., Racism and Alienation, in Tariq Rehman’s short fiction Bingo. Postcolonialism is used as a theoretical framework to postulate the formation and fragmentation of East and West Pakistani nations in 1971. The conventional treatment of colonial hegemony by West Pakistan to East Pakistan is analyzed through the characters of Tajassur and Safeer. The outcome of the hegemonic scenario gives birth to some toxic substances of civil war such as brutality, mass destruction, deprivation, hatred, and family loss, which are couched through the diction and style opted by Tariq Rehman. This study is exclusive in a way that it elucidates the social and emotional estrangement of the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) towards a minority (i.e., Bengalis) before the independence of Bangladesh. This work further examines the text to mediate all the scenarios of West Pakistan’s power shift from being under British raj to rule over Bengalis. To interpret the orientation and worthiness of data; thematic analysis is used as a more flexible yet influential tool; to discuss the hegemonic foundation after partition in Pakistan
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YAQIN, AMINA. "Truth, Fiction and Autobiography in the Modern Urdu Narrative Tradition." Comparative Critical Studies 4, no. 3 (October 2007): 379–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e1744185408000086.
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From its various beginnings in the nineteenth century and ever since the rise of print capitalism on the Indian subcontinent, the Urdu novel has become a prime medium of expression for writers seeking to fuse the narrative traditions of both the East and the West. As a hybrid genre which took shape during the nineteenth century, the Urdu novel's early beginnings were associated with the theme of historical romance; this eventually gave way to the influence of realism in the first half of the twentieth century. By and large, the Urdu novel incorporates influences encompassing the fantastical oral storytelling tradition of the dastan or the qissa (elaborate lengthy heroic tales of adventure, magic and honour), the masnavi (a form of narrative poem), Urdu grammars, religious pamphlets and journals, and the European novel.
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Piazza, Simone. "Zenith Lighting in Christian Places of Worship Between Reality and Fiction (West-East, 4th-13th centuries)." Hortus Artium Medievalium 26 (May 2020): 213–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.ham.5.121706.
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Goreva, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna, and Marina Yurievna Kotova. "Reception of the creative work of the Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem in German-speaking countries." Philology. Issues of Theory and Practice 16, no. 10 (October 16, 2023): 3540–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/phil20230545.
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The paper aims to identify the chronology and specifics of translations and studies of the creative work of the Polish science fiction writer, futurist and philosopher Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) in Germany in the aspect of imagology. Until now, the problems associated with the translation of his works into German have rarely attracted the attention of Russian scholars. The study is original in that it is the first in Russian philological science to trace the history of translations of Stanisław Lem’s works into German and their reception in German-speaking countries. Stanisław Lem’s place in the German book market is viewed from two perspectives – firstly, in the context of Polish literature popularisation, and secondly, within the framework of the science fiction genre. In addition, the paper provides a list of German-language editions of his books with a brief information about translators. The research findings show that the cross-cultural ties between Poland and German-speaking countries influenced publishers’ interest in Lem’s works, mainly at the stage when his books were being first published in German, after which the writer’s reputation as an original science fiction writer and strong ties with individual publishers, namely “Volk und Welt” in East Germany and “Suhrkamp Verlag” in West Germany, played a major role. It is the first time that the factors clarifying the process of translation and publication of Lem’s works in German have been revealed.
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Asadova, Dilbarkhon. "POSTMODERN ELEMENTS IN ORHAN PAMUK'S NOVEL “MY NAME IS RED”." CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES 04, no. 03 (March 1, 2023): 40–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/philological-crjps-04-03-07.
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This scientific article reveals the postmodern elements in the novel "My name is red" by Orhan Pamuk, one of the leading representatives of Turkish postmodern literature. The main idea of the work is to end the conflict between Eastern and Western cultures and to harmonize the two with each other. In the novel "My name is red", Orhan Pamuk skillfully uses the elements of detective fiction, East-West conflict in art, and melodrama in terms of the processing of old motifs and the development of events. The article emphasizes that the novel "My Name is Red" is a detective fiction and a love story. The novel tells about the colorful world of miniaturists, which is divided by East-West conflicts and is also the scene of fierce debates. The composition of the novel and the way of looking from a polyphonic point of view determine the individual style of the novel. The novel "My name is red" is a novel comprising 59 chapters, which analyze the paradoxes and parallels between history and today through the lives of various people, and reflect the complex reality. If we compare the novel "My name is red" with other novels by Orkhan Pamuk in a postmodern spirit, this novel can be called a novel full of deep symbols, diverse characters and a chain of interesting events. The novel differs from Pamuk's other novels by its comprehensive themes such as situations, characters, their inner world, ordinary and scary dreams, sexual desires, history, art, and crime. At the same time, this work can be considered a historical, romantic-adventure, and detective novel.
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Azmi, Mohd Nazri Latiff. "East Meets West: The Reader Response Theory in Thriller Fictions." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 174 (February 2015): 58–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.01.626.
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Shehzad, Umar. "Accounting for the Unaccountable: The Problem of Evil in the Post 9/11 Fiction with Special Reference to Don DeLillo’s Falling Man." International Journal of Linguistics and Culture 3, no. 2 (December 16, 2022): 81–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.52700/ijlc.v3i2.121.
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An account of evil is an oxymoronic construction because, as Terry Eagleton puts it, evil is like “boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor” i.e. incomprehensible by its very nature. However, evil has variously been described as the underbelly of religion, the backyard of morality, and inassimilable waste and byproduct of existence. In the post 9/11 fiction, problematics of evil have been dealt in three distinct and mutually contradictory ways: as a fissure in the cosmic order, as an inevitable fallout of power politics on the international stage, and finally as part of the normal human condition and thus a continuation of average everydayness. Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, an important post 9/11 work of fiction, stages all three strategies. Therefore, when the novel starts with taking up the big questions – Man vs God, good vs evil, determinism vs free will, east vs west, the narrative soon descends to the depiction of the average dailiness of the daily and the little emotional dramas it entails, leaving the fundamentals to fend for themselves.
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Gohar, Saddik. "The Distortion of the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Contemporary American Fiction: A Study of The Haj." International Journal of Arabic-English Studies 8, no. 1 (January 1, 2007): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.33806/ijaes2000.8.1.3.
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Approaching The Haj (1984) as a colonial novel which views the Palestinian people as a barbaric race threatening the existence of Israel, the paper aims to undermine critical assumptions which categorize the book as historical representation of the Middle East conflict. Published at a time in which sympathetic American voices were raising a debate over the legitimacy of Israel’s imperialistic policies in the Arab world, particularly after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, The Haj deployed a counter-discourse aiming to degrade the image of the Palestinians and the Islamic religion. The paper argues that The Haj, which depicts Palestine, prior to colonization, as a primitive country inhabited by nomadic barbarians coming from neighboring desert communities, is not a historical portrayal of the Middle East conflict but a replication of racial representations integral to American cultural mythology about a pre-colonial America populated by an inferior people. The paper also points out that the author's vision of the Arab-Israeli conflict is integrated into hegemonic/racist discourses incorporating narratives of barbarism and Orientalism perpetuated by the American culture industry since the 1980’s when controversy in the West about radical Islamic movements and political Islam reached culmination..
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KOVTUN, Elena. "SLAVIC SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY IN INTERFACULTY COURSES AT LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY (2013-2020)." Ezikov Svyat volume 20 issue 3, ezs.swu.v20i3 (October 20, 2022): 422–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v20i3.13.
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The article shares the author’s experience of teaching interfaculty science fiction (sci-fi) and fantasy lecture courses at Lomono-sov Moscow State University, attended by students of all departments. In the period between 2013 and 2020 six such courses were taught, the number of students varying from 250 to 450 each. The courses comprised sci-fi and fantasy theory, sci-fi and fantasy status among other types of fiction narratives, the main stages of Russian and foreign sci-fi and fantasy history, the creative activity of outstanding sci-fi and fantasy writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Apart from the Russian, West European and North American writers, works by East European (Slavic) authors were thoroughly examined. The article contains neat observations on the degree of Slavic sci-fi and fantasy writers’ popularity among young Russian readers and on the most inter-esting fiction texts for students. The data obtained through the analysis of the students’ assignments comprise their answers to the questions about their favorite sci-fi writers and books lists, on the reasons of certain fantastic worlds’ attractiveness, on their preferences in sci-fi or fantasy. The article also clarifies the principles of writers and their works selection for the lecture cours-es, it characterizes the creative activity of Slavic writers and reveals the interrelation between Slavic writers’ fiction works and the general scope of problems discussed at interfaculty sci-fi lecture courses. Taking into account the students’ interest in works by Karel Čapek, Stanislaw Lem, Andrzej Sapkowski and other Slavic authors, we suggest some ideas about the potential structure of a specialized lecture course focusing on science fiction and fantasy in Slavic countries.
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Tabačková, Zuzana. "The thousand and one tries: Storytelling as an art of failure in Rabih Alameddine’s Fiction." Journal of Language and Cultural Education 3, no. 3 (September 1, 2015): 112–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2015-0025.
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Abstract The paper discusses experimental fiction of Rabih Alameddine, an American writer of Lebanese origin, whose literary pursuits subvert Orientalist discourse based on the East/West dichotomy by focusing on the commonalities of the two. The recurring motif of searching for one’s identity (while being trapped in-between two mutually distant and at the same time similar worlds) is reflected in the subversion of the traditional understanding of the narrative which is destined to a constant failure. Alameddine’s storytelling is, in reality, a “story-trying.“ By employing multiple narrators, intertwining plots, genres and languages, the author is striving hard to tell “hisstory” about American homophobia, Lebanese sectarianism as well as the physical and psychological outcomes of war - a story which turns up to be a narration of the thousand and one failed beginnings.
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Abbas, Ahmed. "Lʼimage de lʼAutre entre l’imaginaire et la réalité dans " Voyage en Orient" Recherche présentée par." Kufa Journal of Arts 1, no. 47 (April 27, 2021): 577–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.36317/kaj/2021/v1.i47.243.
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The present research (The Image of the Other between Fiction and Reality in the Book "Journey to the East" by Gerard de Nerval) seeks to clarify the circumstances that contributed to the formation of image of the other in the literary work of Gerard de Nerval, who tried to present an atypical image of the other Egyptian which is free of the rules based on his observations during his stay in Cairo in 1843 and to clarify aspects of the social, historical, cultural and artistic life in Egypt during the first half of the nineteenth century, which witnessed the flourishing literature of the journey to the East. It is found that Nerval was able to present an objective picture of the other different from the other images contained in the literary achievement of other writers and also reached the influence of Nerval on Islam in a number of axes that were discussed in the research as well as his role in the formulation of a new speech recognizes the other and its cultural, in order to promote the desired human interaction between East and West.
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Mazumder, Tanmoy. "Exploring the Eurocentric Heart: A Postcolonial Reading of Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 3, no. 8 (August 30, 2021): 113–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.8.17.
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A literary text can be a propagator of values- both explicitly and implicitly. As Edward Said claims in his book, Orientalism (1978), for centuries Eurocentrism pervades Western literary pieces; they somehow justify and/or uplift European values and perspectives as superior ones while portraying lands, people and cultures of the colonized nations elsewhere, especially in the East. Sometimes, it may become more oblique as the apparent issues dominating the text seem to be something very different, but the writing, however, in the undercurrent, portrays things in a Eurocentric way, often by “othering” the non-Europeans. Said famously terms, this process of creation of an alter ego of the West in the East as “Orientalism”. Graham Greene’s novel, The Heart of the Matter (1948), set in West Africa’s Sierra Leone, a then British colony during WWII, summons rethinking of its presentation of the non-White people and the land of Africa. This study would like to take the focus away from the dominating themes of religion, sin, pity, mercy, responsibility, love, etc. in this piece of fiction to assess its underlying colonial issues which often go unnoticed. The novel portrays a variety of characters- both the British colonizers and the colonial subjects- though the roles and space occupied by the non-British characters are mostly marginal. The “Whites” are portrayed sympathetically, whereas the “non-Whites” are presented as evil, naïve, weak and mystic. This study, thus, argues that the portrayal of Africa (Sierra Leone), the Africans, and the major “non-White” characters in the novel, in contrast to the empathetic presentation of the major “White” European characters, indicate an obvious “othering” of “non-Whites” and the marginalization of non-Europeans in the narrative of the novel. The paper further opines that this process of “othering” and marginalization underlines the operation of an underlying Eurocentric attitude in the representation of the Europeans and non-Europeans in Greene’s fiction.
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Briel, Holger. "SinoAsian Futures between Economic Forecasting, Science Fiction, Sinofuturism and Creativity." IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies 9, si (June 7, 2024): 83–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.9.si.05.
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For many years futurology and forecasting have been a growing field and it seems that this trend is continuing. This article will therefore discuss forecasting, but will claim that it is in need of an important corrective: a kind of self-reflective Science Fiction (hereafter: SF) and the specific critical creativity associated with it. This approach is especially yielding when looking at the case of China. If for the longest time, Science Fiction has been thought of as a western genre, the following suggests that with new movements such as Asian Futurism, Sinofuturism, Afrofuturism or Gulf Futurism, one can observe a new multilateralism taking hold when it comes to the projection and description of possible futures. The Sinofuturism movement will here function as a case study, as it is well suited to point to the innovative power of non-traditional SF. Already one of its forerunners, 1980s Cyberpunk introduced a changing power differential between the east (Japan at the time) and the west, retiring older orientalist and colonial dreams of dominating Asia. This article suggests that this changing power differential can be updated and re-read via the rise of Sinofuturism, its visions and its politics and that it has already become an important socio-political phenomenon to study with which to study cultural Asian-western interactions for times to come.
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Petrosyan, D. V., and T. R. Danielyan. "The Translational Fiction Literature in the Armenian Magazines of Tiflis (1860–1881)." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 22, no. 6 (August 22, 2023): 47–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2023-22-6-47-59.
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The article analyzes the tendencies of the development of Armenian translated fiction and its importance as a communication channel in the genesis of national identity. The magazines under study published those works in which the collective image of the nation and its axiological system were embodied, and parallels were drawn between its past and present. Under the influence of socio-political and cultural factors, translated literature developed both in intralinguistic and inter-lingual directions and turned into one of the main catalysts for the formation of the modern Armenian language. The literature translated into Armenian improved the structure of the modern Armenian literary language and replenished its vocabulary with neologisms and borrowed words. Quantitative and qualitative analysis indicates that the thematic vector is shifting from social problems to patriotic content. Compositions of patriotic themes, in addition to aesthetic perception, awakened the national dignity of the Armenian people, faith in the revival of the Homeland, and Their own future. Comparison with the Russian newspaper “Kavkaz” (“Caucasus”) of the same period confirms the directly opposite thematic preferences of the editors: the literary geography in the Russian newspaper covered the South-East, and in the Armenian magazines – the North-West.
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Nikolaev, D. D. "Train Travel as the Basis of the Plot in Bunin’s Works Part one: East and West." Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology 15, no. 2 (2020): 355–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2410-7883-2020-2-355-370.
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Train travel is one of the most frequently used motives in I. A. Bunins’ works. In the center of the plot of the “Zapisnaya knizhka” (“Notebook”) (“Novaya Russkaya Zhizn” (Gelsingfors), 1921, April 2), subsequently reworked into the story “Tretiy klass” (“Third Class”) is the voyage on the train on Ceylon. Train ride in France becomes the basis of the plot of the story “Notre-dame de la garde”, published in the newspaper “Vozrozhdenie” (“Renaissance”) (Paris) on October 17, 1925. These works are united not only by the same fiction method (we see another country and its inhabitants through the eyes of a Russian passenger on the train), but also by direct textual parallels in newspaper publications. In both cases, the train becomes a ‘mirror’ of the country: the first is the train of the East and the second is the train of the West. The contrast between East and West is most clearly pointed in the “Zapisnaya knizhka”, where it is associated with the ideological struggle of 1921. In the newspaper Bunin wrote about the West no less than about the East. The main characters of his work were the British. But in the story “Tretiy klass”, published in 1926 in “Illyustrirovannaya Rossiya” (“Illustrated Russia”), the actual publicistic pathos becomes unnecessary. A similar tendency towards a decrease in the concrete historical publicistic pathos we can find in the history of the text of the story “Notre-dame de la garde”. Here, the changes are also associated with the reduction of the universal-social that played an important role in the newspaper and its replacement with the simply universal. The plot allows Bunin to show France from different sides, as well as declare his attitude towards the country. The system of oppositions in the newspaper version of the story “Notre-dame de la garde” is more complicated than in the one in the collected works – later Bunin renounces the class characteristic. The poster-ideal West turns out to be a deception, but the destruction of external, advertising harmony does not mean the absence of beauty and internal harmony. The types created by Bunin in the story have both a national and universal character.
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Keerthi Rajalakshmi, V., and K. Sankar. "Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace and Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red: A Comparison." Shanlax International Journal of English 11, no. 2 (March 1, 2023): 29–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v11i2.6101.
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The paper aims to form a comprehensive and in-depth study of the theme of multiculturalism as portrayed within the selected novels of Orhan Pamuk and Amitav Ghosh. The reputed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh has carved a distinct segment for himself within the world of fiction even as Orhan Pamuk who writes exquisite novels won the Nobel award. Pamuk’s work often touches on the deep rooted tensions of spiritual conflict between East and West, tradition and modernism or secularism. Loss of identity occurs in an alien land within the novel owing to the colonial impact within the postcolonial context. These are the ideas that involve relationship between individuals belonging to the identical or to different communities that sometimes transgress and transcend the shadow lines of political borders. Depicting meticulously the lives of Indian diaspora in Burma, this novel has taken a lot of time for Ghosh, travelling between the boundaries of south Asian countries as to incorporate the events of this novel. Ghosh tells the story of colonizer-colonized relationship through the temporal and spatial journeys of his characters. Pamuk and Ghosh talkabout the national identity, oppression, diaspora, exile and a host of such factors which influence the construction of a nation. Both as novelists deals with culture, nationality, tradition, the conflict between the east and the west, communication, defending individual’s rights of expression and belief and arguing against religious and nationalism.
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Gough, Noel. "Narrative and Nature: Unsustainable Fictions in Environmental Education." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 7 (January 1991): 31–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0814062600001841.
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We live… lives based on selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation of reality is based on a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed. (Durrell 1963)Environmental education owes its very existence to a particular interpretation of reality. My purpose here is to examine critically the “selected fictions” on which that view of reality is based — to examine the ways in which our perceptions of environmental problems and issues are “conditioned by our position in space and time”. I will argue that some of these perceptions constitute unsustainable fictions and will consider some ways in which we might work towards living lives based on more sustainable constructions of human interrelationships with their environments. I will begin with an illustration of how an interpretation of reality can be changed by taking (to coin Durrell's metaphor) two paces east or west — by glimpsing something familiar from an unusual vantage point.
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Mallan, Kerry. "Everything You Do: Young Adult Fiction and Surveillance in an Age of Security." International Research in Children's Literature 7, no. 1 (July 2014): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2014.0110.
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Espionage, surveillance and clandestine operations by secret agencies and governments were something of an East–West obsession in the second half of the twentieth century, a fact reflected in literature and film. In the twenty-first century, concerns of the Cold War and the threat of Communism have been rearticulated in the wake of 9/11. Under the rubric of ‘terror’ attacks, the discourses of security and surveillance are now framed within an increasingly global context. As this article illustrates, surveillance fiction written for young people engages with the cultural and political tropes that reflect a new social order that is different from the Cold War era, with its emphasis on spies, counter espionage, brainwashing and psychological warfare. While these tropes are still evident in much recent literature, advances in technology have transformed the means of tracking, profiling and accumulating data on individuals’ daily activities. Little Brother, The Hunger Games and Article 5 reflect the complex relationship between the real and the imaginary in the world of surveillance and, as this paper discusses, raise moral and ethical issues that are important questions for young people in our age of security.
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Wahab, Mohammed Osman Abdul, Mohammed Nurul Islam, and Nisar Ahmad Koka. "Dimensions of Literature and Journalism, History, Ideology and Culture." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 12 (December 1, 2019): 1474. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0912.02.
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Literature is a hugely loaded term that brings within its ambit a variety of concerns ranging from philosophy to journalism as there is almost a photo finish between what is construed as journalism and what is commonly and widely presumed literature. Adding interactive or writing multi-platform stories/literature/fiction is quickly becoming a new craft of publishing onto itself and a tool for writers to use. The media field could be very different in coming years---or it could still be just a bunch of promotional tie-tins. The dimensions of literature breach boundaries to conform to the possibilities of generating discourses on issues of humanitarian concerns. Hemingway, Dos Passos, Dickens and Thackeray came to the writing of fiction through journalism. Psychology and Philosophy have given the edges to literature as the likes of James Joyce, Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf. Journalism aided the growth of imperial culture and simultaneously provoking a debate between the East and West, between the Fascist and the Liberals and between the Diary of A young Girl and Tin Drum and again between what Bertolt Brecht did in Germany to stave off the last remains of Nazism though diced up in ruins. The difference lies in the manner of treating its shades and colors.
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Jadoon, Aisha, and Maria Noureen. "A Re-Orientalist Critique of Moni Mohsin’s The End of Innocence." World Journal of English Language 14, no. 3 (March 13, 2024): 319. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v14n3p319.
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The complicity of Western intellectuals in optimizing the oppression of the Orient even after the end of European empires is a much-debated issue within postcolonial literary circles. This argument is mostly centered around the critiques of European modernity doctrine which is held as a new face of the Imperialist project. West maintains its superiority over the East through different modes, among them diasporic fiction is identified as serving this project by Lisa Lau. In particular, Lau’s idea of re-orientalism reveals the involvement of migrant writers who highlight the inferiority of their indigenous cultures in their fiction. By considering the re-Orientalist perspective with its attention to the suspicion of meta-narratives and repetition of the stories already popular among Western readers, this paper points out the subtle ways in which formulaic representation of characters, emplotment of the story in specific socio-cultural Pakistani society and the narratorial references to historical and political happenings of the Pakistani society re-construct the orient as ‘other’. This paper concludes Moni Mohsin’s The End of Innocence as a cultural construct serving the European agenda of colonization, wherein the novelist has depicted the backward, sensual and illiterate Pakistani culture through the stereotyping of the indigenous population.
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Nuratikah, Nuratikah, and Wiyatmi Wiyatmi. "The West Hegemony and the East Resistance in Fictions Entilted “Semua Untuk Hindia” and “The Dan Pengkhianat” By Iksaka Banu." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 4, no. 5 (May 30, 2021): 206–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.5.22.
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Colonialism exerts its influence on the colonized in the fields of economy, politics, and ideology. Iksaka Banu, a well-known Indonesian writer, takes colonialism issues as the topic in his works. This qualitative descriptive research implemented postcolonial approach to uncover and explain various forms of the West hegemony and the East resistance in fictions entitled “Semua Untuk Hindia” and “Teh dan Pengkhianat”. The research results reveal that: (1) there are forms of hegemony carried out by the colonizer (West) in perpetuating its power in the colonized (East), (2) there are forms of resistance carried out by the colonized (East) to resist the power domination carried out by the colonizer, (3) The forms of hegemony carried out by the colonizer include torturing, restricting access, and degrading the natives, and (4) the forms of resistance carried out by the colonized include performing both passive and active resistances such as learning a language, wearing traditional clothes, building schools, building painting studios, performing coolie rebellion, and kidnapping the colonizer.
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Lam, Melissa. "Diasporic literature." Cultural China in Discursive Transformation 21, no. 2 (July 5, 2011): 309–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.21.2.08lam.
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Only since the 1960s has the Asian Diaspora been studied as a historical movement greatly impacting the United States — affecting not only socio-historical cultural trends and geographic ethnography, but also culturally redefining major areas of Western history and culture. This paper explores the reverse impact of the Asian America Diaspora on Mainland China or the Chinese Motherland. Mainland Chinese writers Ha Jin and Yiyun Li have left China and today teach in major American universities and reside in America. However, the fiction of both authors explores themes and landscapes that remain immersed in Mainland Chinese culture, traditions and environment. Both authors explore the themes of “cultural collisions” between East and West, choosing to write in their adopted English language instead of their mother Putonghua tongue. Central to this paper is the idea that ethnicity and race are socially and historically constructed as well as contested, reclaimed and redefined
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Morey, Peter. "“Halal fiction” and the limits of postsecularism: Criticism, critique, and the Muslim in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53, no. 2 (February 13, 2017): 301–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989416689295.
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This article examines Leila Aboulela’s 2005 novel Minaret, considering the extent to which it can be seen as an example of a postsecular text. The work has been praised by some as one of the most cogent attempts to communicate a life of Islamic faith in the English language novel form. Others have expressed concern about what they perceive as its apparent endorsement of submissiveness and a secondary status for women, along with its silence on some of the more thorny political issues facing Islam in the modern world. I argue that both these readings are shaped by the current “market” for Muslim novels, which places on such texts the onus of being “authentically representative”. Moreover, while apparently underwriting claims to authenticity, Aboulela’s technique of unvarnished realism requires of the reader the kind of suspension of disbelief in the metaphysical that appears to run contrary to the secular trajectory of the English literary novel in the last 300 years. I take issue with binarist versions of the postsecular thesis that equate the post-Enlightenment West with relentless desacralization and the “Islamic world” with a persistent collectivist and spiritual outlook, and suggest that we pay more attention to fundamental narrative elements which recur across the supposed West/East divide. Historically simplistic understandings of the secularization of culture — followed in the last few years by a postsecular turn — misrepresent the actual evolution of the novel. The “religious” persists, albeit transmuted into symbolic schema and themes of material or emotional redemption. I end by arguing for the renewed relevance of the kind of analysis of literary “archetypes” suggested by Northrop Frye, albeit disentangled from its specifically Christian resonances and infused by more attention to cultural cross-pollination. It is this type of approach that seems more accurately to account for the peculiarities of Aboulela’s fiction.