Grafting Eco-Diasporic Identity in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Selected Novels

Almutairi, Areej; Hashim, Ruzy Suliza; Raihanah, M M

doi:10.17576/gema-2017-1704-12

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“…The conceptual foundations of good education, like pedagogical methodology, are important for preschool and feminist education. The establishment of extra-curricular activities will broaden the scope of students' ethical perspective via literature (Almutairi, 2017). In Duffy's The World's Wife, "Anne Hathaway" exemplifies the utmost denotation of the mother as the safe logging for her sons.…”

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The Role of Poetry in Gender Equality Awareness Education among Youth

Mhana,

Al_Sadiq

2023

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Modern educational methods, in general, and literary texts, in particular, have played immensely important roles in bringing awareness to young students concerning the notion of the female-male binary relationship in society. This objective has been fulfilled through women’s literary works, which are considered powerful materials contributing toward female empowerment in the culture of masculinity. Post-1980s, feminist works are used in education as a part of the teaching curriculum to address gender equality imbalance in society. The analysis of feminist writers’ texts and their discourses is at the core of ongoing debates and the evolving pedagogical methods of the contemporary educational sphere. Accordingly, Carol Ann Duffy, a most notable feminist poet, known for her poetics dexterity, has worked on addressing gender and female identity. Her poems have been published and referred to in academic works, magazines, and internet forums. At the same time, her poetry has been instrumental in improving the themes and goals of educational syllabuses at the primary and secondary school levels as well as those of higher education institutions at the national level. This paper sought to reveal the vital role of literary language and mainly feminist literary works in radically enhancing educational syllabuses. The study will be conducted through examining the main themes of

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The Role of Poetry in Gender Equality Awareness Education among Youth

Mhana,

Al_Sadiq

2023

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“…For Kanafani, the need to secure a financially stable life in another land was perceived as individualistic and perhaps even selfish. The notion of home being equated to the homeland or land of birth has been studied by Almutairi et al (2017) who state that land and home remain inseparable in the minds of young Palestinians.…”

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The Dialectics of ‘Home’ in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun

Shamallakh

Vengadasamy

Sulaiman

2021

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Since the Palestinian Nakba in 1948, the definition of home in diasporic Palestinian literature has become a central issue among literary scholars. However, this concept of home has been addressed mainly from a mono-dimensional perspective, that is, either the concrete attachment or the abstract affiliation of home. Based on the significance of the interplay of both dimensions and the lack of focus on the duality of home in previous studies of Palestinian literature, this paper explores the abstract and concrete dimensions of 'home' as depicted in the novel Men in the Sun written by Ghassan Kanafani, a Palestinian diasporic writer. This study investigates the paradoxes of home for Palestinians in the aftermath of the Palestinian Nakba, with a special focus on Kanafani's perception of home. The study adopts Georg Hegel's dialectics of thesis, antithesis and synthesis in the discussion of the abstract and concrete perceptions of home. Our findings disclose that Kanafani projects the many spaces that the refugees seek shelter in, such as the refugee camp, as the antithesis of home and that they are attached to poverty, humiliation, and death. Not only does Kanafani deny any mediating solutions for home, but he also assures us that such mediating solutions, other than the original home, will lead to additional aggravation to the original problem of displacement. Therefore, the synthesis of home, in both its concrete and abstract dimensions, remains as Palestine. It is hoped that this paper will pave the way to a better understanding of the concept of a Palestinian home.

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“…In particular, female issues have been the focus of many current studies in literary criticism: for example, the issue of engendered violence against women (Zabihzadeh et al 2015, Chua et al 2016, Dodhy et al 2017, Salih et al 2018, the dilemma regarding cultural, ethnic and religious identities (Al-Karawi & Ida Baizura Bahar 2013, Nur Fatin Syuhada Ahmad Jafni & Ida Baizura Bahar 2014, Al-Karawi & Ida Baizura Bahar 2014, Farahanna Abd Razak et al 2016, Almutairi et al 2017, Ida Baizura Bahar 2019, Ida Baizura Bahar et al 2019 and the prospect of outgrowing the sense of rootlessness in diasporic texts for immigrant female characters (Noraini Md. Yusof et al 2012, Krishnamoorthy & Krishnamurthy 2016.…”

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The Fluid and Transcultural Self: Renegotiating the East Asian Female Identity in The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho

Shamsuddin

Bahar

2020

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This paper examines how the contemporary Chinese-American author Minfong Ho (b. 1951) portrays Dara, the female protagonist of The Clay Marble (1991), in her practice of culture in Cambodian society in order to explore the Western perspective of the East Asian female identity as voiceless, submissive and hypersexual. Using the concepts of identity fluidity as proposed by the sociologist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall (2011) and his views on the decentring of the individual, the paper aims to investigate how the three concepts of the enlightenment subject, the sociological subject and the postmodern subject interact with Arianna Dagnino's (2015) concept of transculture/ality, or intermingling of cultures, in The Clay Marble through Dara's practice of culture in Cambodian society and how she is decentred as her identity evolves. Ho's portrayal of Dara reveals an East Asian female who experiences identity fluidity in her thinking, attitude and behaviour while her stable, regular and fixed self in the enlightenment subject phase becomes decentred through transculture/ality at the sociological subject phase. Here, through transculture/ality, or her interaction or communication within her culture, she links herself to society and transforms as she finds her voice and manifests individual agency. By doing so, Dara enters the third phase, the postmodern subject, where her thinking, attitude and behaviour are constantly changing as are the ways in which she is defined and addressed in her Cambodian culture.

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Grafting Eco-Diasporic Identity in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Selected Novels

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

The Role of Poetry in Gender Equality Awareness Education among Youth

The Role of Poetry in Gender Equality Awareness Education among Youth

The Dialectics of ‘Home’ in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun

The Fluid and Transcultural Self: Renegotiating the East Asian Female Identity in The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho

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