Leisure as a Space of Political Practice in Middle East Women Life Writings

Asl, Moussa Pourya

doi:10.17576/gema-2019-1903-03

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“…This means that the principal method of data collection will be a textual analysis of the selected works. The advantage of this approach is that it bases the interpretations on evidence from the text (Asl, 2019, Ying et al, 2021, leaving the context aside as a secondary matter of importance (Asl, 2018(Asl, , 2020. Hence, the reading will be limited to identifying and analysing examples of behaviour patterns of major characters to make sense of the underlying motives in ways that lead for likely interpretations.…”

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Grotesque, Shadow and Individuation: A Jungian Reading of Selected Short Stories by Tunku Halim and Edgar Allan Poe

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Ramli²

2021

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In examining Malaysian literature in light of the global canon, one cannot miss the numerous parallelisms between literary works by Tunku Halim bin Tunku Abdullah and Edgar Allan Poe. Both writers are preoccupied with grotesque realities of mentally deranged individuals, and similarly visualize the darkness and animality of human consciousness. This article aims at conducting a comparative analysis of the dynamics of personality and of the psyche of fictional characters in selected short stories by the two writers. To this end, the study draws upon Jung’s notions of the Shadow and the Individuation to explore the key psychological motives behind the characters’ behaviour patterns, as well as to examine their level of subjectivity and agency in harnessing the same motives. Notwithstanding the seemingly different ways of presenting the narrative patterns of the characters’ journey towards Individuation, the selected stories are marked with similar examples of characters’ failures in the process of self-realization. While some characters remain trapped in the obscure and perplexing world of the Shadow, others achieve a minimal level of maturity as they begin to realize their own being. In the case of Halim’s stories, however, the characters are additionally held back by cultural and structural forces that constantly affect their realities. It is concluded that this particular difference accounts for Halim’s uniquely hybrid style of writing that merges Western horror genre with more local folklore.

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Grotesque, Shadow and Individuation: A Jungian Reading of Selected Short Stories by Tunku Halim and Edgar Allan Poe

Asl¹,

Ramli²

2021

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“…On the one hand, a systematic rise of a new security-oriented political discourse has helped to mobilize certain discursive-ideological policies such as legitimization and valorisation of America's past and present militaristic interventions around the globe. On the other hand, it has criminalized individual and collective associations with any ideologies-not least Islamic fundamentalism and Communism-that pose a potential threat to mainstream American liberal way of life (Asl, 2019). It is this dominance of Americanization of world order that can be related to the current study on Vietnamese diasporic literature.…”

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The Politics of Space: Vietnam as a Communist Heterotopia in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees

Asl

2020

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Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Refugees (2017) explores hardships and aspirations of non-Communist Vietnamese led between two contradicting geographical imaginations. This article draws upon Foucault's theories of "other spaces"-heterotopia, utopia and dystopia-to examine the socio-political constructs of space in the manufacturing and diffusion of desired knowledge(s) throughout the collection. It is argued that the particular arrangement of spaces together with the strategic monopolization of knowledge-producing practices throughout the stories produce the effects of regulatory and disciplinary power with the aim of naturalizing certain discursiveideological policies. The analyses of selected stories unravel the ways in which the Communist Vietnam is ideologically signed as a heterotopia, or a rupture of a decent society. The study also reveals that such negative depictions of the country are in compliance with mainstream epistemic perspectives in the West that aim to maintain a similar discursive regime. Hence, it is concluded that the juxtaposition of two irreconcilable spacesthe heterotopic representation of Vietnam in relation to the utopianised picture of America-feeds into the contemporary discourse of war on terror by reflecting the Cold War register of anxiety about an insidious Communist threat.

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“…Research demonstrates that casual leisure can result in balance in life/regeneration in life (MacCosham et al., 2015), relaxation (Patterson, 2004), and interpersonal relationships/friendships (Stebbins, 2020), and project‐based leisure can result in meaning and happiness (Bailey & Fernando, 2012). In addition, the SLP has been used as a vehicle to address diversity and social justice issues, such as nurturing diversity through the critical lens of feminist communitarianism (Gallant et al., 2013b), countenancing Middle East women's active participation in resisting against socio‐political impositions and constraints (Asl, 2019) and sustaining indigenous culture (Tsung‐Chiung et al., 2012). The development of an optimal leisure lifestyle results in the attainment of core AHC principles and has been applied in medicine and healthcare design as a way of decreasing patient stress and burnout among medical professionals (Dieser et al., 2017) and in mental health counseling (Dieser & Christenson, 2017; Dieser et al., 2015).…”

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Advancing the association for humanistic counseling principles through the serious leisure perspective

Dieser

2023

J Humanistic Counseling

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The serious leisure perspective (SLP) aligns with humanistic counseling principles. A most significant professional implication is that humanistic counselors can create optimal leisure lifestyle strategies linked to the AHC principles of discovering meaning and purpose, developing deep connections with people and nature, moving toward growth and change, maintaining a holistic approach to humanity, and developing creativity. Future research implications and practical steps that humanistic counselors can use in professional practice to connect the SLP to humanistic counseling principles are elucidated.

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Leisure as a Space of Political Practice in Middle East Women Life Writings

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

Grotesque, Shadow and Individuation: A Jungian Reading of Selected Short Stories by Tunku Halim and Edgar Allan Poe

Grotesque, Shadow and Individuation: A Jungian Reading of Selected Short Stories by Tunku Halim and Edgar Allan Poe

The Politics of Space: Vietnam as a Communist Heterotopia in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees

Advancing the association for humanistic counseling principles through the serious leisure perspective

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