Via a qualitative methodological approach, this article uses hermeneutic phenomenology to study how the two narratives Exit West and The Last White Man reflect and reinforce the way an alienated nonwhite literary man can escape his suffering and humiliation in a white Western society. It interprets what forces this colored man to imagine inanities as the only way to escape. It explores how these fictional texts help the reader understand many key issues like escapism, racism, migration and alienation throughout narrative hermeneutics. It elaborates on how the British Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid"s ordinary routine and personal interest and concern affect his understanding and interpretation of society and how these understanding and tieretereretni are also related to the reader"s daily experiences and responses. In addition, this study shows how the rhetorical triangle as well as the hermeneutic circle are necessary to interpret and understand the meaning of the text.

The purpose of this article is to manifest how a psychological realist text through the techniques of stream of consciousness and internal monologue via an interlocutor narrator can depict what Jean-Paul Sartre calls 'existential angst' that has become popular in the age of modernism. To accomplish this, the current article uses the psychological analysis research method to analyze the American Jesse Andrews's debut novel and shows how the protagonist suffers from his existential angst, the trauma of the other and the inability to form his identity and, therefore, essence. Andrews's recluse protagonist is shown as responsible for his deeds since he creates free choices to form his essence. Existentialism is regarded as the opposite of nihilism. Therefore, considering himself a nihilist or absurd, as well as suffering from low self-esteem, Andrews's protagonist tries to resist his meaningless life and, then, finally exists. Soren Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety, Sartre's modern existentialism, and Erik Erikson's identity development are briefly examined throughout the study, in addition to other concepts like nihilism, absurdism and trauma of the other. It is necessary, too, to explore the literary genre 'realism' and the sub-genre 'psychological realism' as well as the techniques of stream of consciousness and internal monologue, used by the novelist to achieve his goal.

This paper explored school bullying as reflected in two narrative texts of two different cultures: the western American novel, Nineteen Minutes (2007), by Jodi Picoult, and the eastern Egyptian novel, Scarab (2019), by Tareq Basem Helal. Attention was paid to how school bullying is conceptualized, particularly according to the role that is attributed to power. Regard will be taken to the power of the bully and the resistance of the victim or bullied. This paper claimed that anti-bullying in schools is a new genre in the Egyptian narrative fiction. It examined how school bullying began to invade eastern literature as a new phenomenon in the Egyptian novel. The analysis highlighted various relationships; parent-child, boyfriendgirlfriend, peers, and sibling rivalry. It also

To save your life and stay alive you have to use your power and hegemony over others. Explaining the connection between human activities and the web of life and how human activity has led to climate change which in turn has led to water scarcity thus leading to privatization of water, this paper aims to show social unrest arousing from hydro-capitalism, unveiling how third world countries face a lot of struggles out of their poor resources and how the powerful humiliates the powerless, the West imperializes the East and the self subjugates the other. This study joins water scarcity and its privatization in a speculative hydro-fiction text to the dominant features of biopower, hydro-capitalism and imperialism. Analyzing Mindy's narrative text Not a Drop to Drink, this paper shows the problem of ruling Western paradigm and discourse, like capitalocene and how water scarcity may drive the overwhelming powers of a society to conquer and subjugate the other; the weak. In addition, the study examines the dam projects which are integral to the thrilling hydrological regimes of independence in several post-colonial countries, like the Aswan Dam in Egypt and the Grand Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, shedding light on the biospheric turning point during the 21 st century in which the forces of nature are extended to affect the output of human being activities.