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Colloquium: New Philologies / Tracing the lost bodies: testimony, witnessing, and trauma in Billydéki
Get PDFKamelia Talebian Sedeh
Dara, Kamelia: Klassischer persischer Gesang
No full textGraz, Univ. für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Diplomarb., 201
Speaking characters in Possessing the Secret of Joy
Get PDFThis paper is a study of Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy in light of Julia Kristeva’s speaking subject. This novel deals with the issue of circumcision and its negative psychological effects on a woman’s mind. Moreover, it criticises female genital mutilation. In this novel, each character expresses his/her feelings, thoughts and emotions about female circumcision. In Julia Kristeva’s view, the speaking subject does not have a fixed identity but is in the process of being. The speaking subject's identity is shaped through using language and interaction with other people. This article applies Kristeva’s notion of the subject in process to Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy and primarily indicates Tashi’s opinion of circumcision. The findings of this study demonstrate that, through sisterhood, women can achieve their goal which is to abolish female circumcision. It indicates that although women are oppressed in African patriarchal societies, they can improve their life through sisterhood. It advises future female generations to stand up for their rights and reject the circumcision which hurts women physically and psychologically
Witnessing, testimony and trauma in indian school days
Get PDFResidential schools functioned from 1876 to 1996 in Canada in order to assimilate Indigenous children to Euro- Canadian culture. By implementation of Indian Act (1876), the Indigenous children were taken away from their parents and sent to these schools. The trauma that these kids underwent as a result of physical, mental and sexual abuse at these residential schools has been reflected in Basil H. Johnstons' Indian School Days. The novel will be analyzed based on Judith Herman's concept of trauma and Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub's concept of witnessting and testimony since the literary work can be a witness to the historical incidents that happened at residential schools in Canada. However, the novel also reflects the incidents that remained non-documented within various narratives within the selected novel
Upsurges of Consumer Brand Loyalty towards Online Travel Websites: Case of booking.com
Get PDFKamelia Chaichi - ORCID: 0000-0001-7204-0659
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Cultural identity in K. S. Maniam's Ratnamuni
Get PDFIn his fiction, the Malaysian-Indian author, K. S. Maniam depicts the identity and culture of Malaysian-Indian. This is shaped with a collection of materials that are vital to keep the trace of ancestral identification marks, of retaining the status of being Indian, even though the land they live in is not India. In the new land the Indian community invests its new narrative of existence with a power structure to support the Diasporic Indian “self”. In Maniam’s reconstruction of the Indian immigrant experience in Malaysia, there are the difficulties that the community faced when trying to recreate this world. Maniam depicts the rites of the complicated cultural issues in a Diasporic Indian community. In his reconstruction of the Indian immigrant experience of Malaya, One can see these previously peripheral characters as the agents of the Diasporic identity that the present day Malaysian-Indian has inherited. The passage of such identity formation, however, is demonstrated to be filled with the many snares of both colonial and postcolonial experiences. The present study examines Maniam’s short story, Ratnamuni, from a Diaspora perspective. This study shows the way in which Maniam symbolically depicts the culture of a nation in Diaspora
Image segmentation of repetitive patterns / Kamelia Kamel
Get PDFImage segmentation is a challenging task in the area of image processing and has been researched for the last four decades. There are many research conducted on image segmentation, but a special attention needs to be focused on segmentation of images with repetitive patterns, as it involves grouping the repeated patterns in a meaningful structure. The objectives of this study is to propose a method to segment the repetitive patterns image and grouped the images based on its shape features. For this purpose, 7 Pua Kumbu images is selected. There are several steps involved throughout the proposed method
Aliens' Arrival and the End of the World — An Apocalyptic Reading of Childhood's End
Get PDFScience fiction is a literary genre which provides the ground for scientific discoveries. One of the subgenres of science fiction is apocalyptic literature, which deals with the end of the world. Arthur C. Clarke is considered one of these apocalyptic writers whose Childhood’s End indicates an alien invasion and the outcome of their interference with the affairs of human beings. This article intends to emphasize the apocalyptic elements within Childhood’s End and, further, it will highlight how the writer uses this genre in order to deal with the delineation of religion and science, the mutation of children and the destruction of Earth
Melancholic celie in the color purple
Get PDFIn her theory of the melancholic subject, Julia Kristeva asserts that the melancholic subject
has a sense of loss, but she cannot share this feeling with others as she considers it as private.
Although the melancholic subject is stranger to her mother tongue, she should use language
to get rid of her sense of loss. In The Color Purple, Alice Walker devotes herself to the
plight of black people’s lives in white society. She believes that the black feel a sense of
loss as they are subject to racism, sexism and gender discrimination in white society. These
black people, especially black women, should use language to express their sense of loss
and deal with their traumatic experiences. This article intends to focus on Julia Kristeva’s
melancholic subject and apply it to Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
Cultural representations in foreign language textbooks: A comparative analysis of English and French language textbooks designed for Algerian state middle schools.
No full textThis research is the first comparative analysis of the cultural representations (including images of culture, society, and the world) in the recently published English and French language textbooks used in Algerian state middle schools. This qualitative research employs content analysis and Critical discourse analysis informed by Risager’s (2018) theoretical framework to question the cultural representations of four language textbooks (two English and two French language textbooks). In addition to textbook analysis, supplementary data was collected from few policy documents and semi-structured interviews with a sample of teachers to provide an in-depth and triangulated understanding of the philosophy surrounding cultural representation in Algerian foreign language education. The findings show that the English and French language textbooks have similarities and differences in their approach to cultural representation. Both English and French language textbooks’ cultural representations are dominated by essentialist, nationalist, and simplistic representational discourses. The English language textbooks have an emphasis on representing cultural knowledge about different countries (including English speaking countries), but the French language textbooks have no focus on representing countries. The findings reveal that the sociocultural content of the textbooks is predominantly Algerian-centred, and both language textbooks prioritise the development of national identity and pride. Algerian national history is represented in both English and French language textbooks via narratives of anti-colonial resistance, but the French textbooks have more emphasis on representing a negative image of France. As a former French colony, Algeria adopts a political approach to the representation of history and France in the French language textbooks. The findings of the textbook analysis are consistent with the guidelines of the Algerian education policy documents which heavily promote national identity and history. The interviewed foreign language teachers do not feel the need to question or challenge the nationalist orientation of the cultural representations of the language textbooks
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