Re-reading Do Haath as an Intersectional Text: Ismat Chughtai and Dalits

2022 ◽  
pp. 003802292110631
Author(s):  
Rafia Kazim
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Intersectional Theory

Even though scholars and feminists have accused intersectional theory for being superficial, inadequate, context bereft and fashionably more populist than academic, its applicability in addressing multi-layered forms of discrimination cannot be ignored. It is against this background that the article, through a deconstructive reading of an Urdu short story, Do Haath, highlights the challenges of the protagonist, the Dalit household, comprised primarily of women. Besides discussing the intersectional subjects of the story, this article questions the deliberate omissions of the multiply disadvantageous people such as the Dalit-Muslim women, also known as the Pasmanda women from feminist, Dalit and subaltern discourses. Furthermore, this article foregrounds intersectionality framework to understand the multiplicative nature of oppression and discrimination that Pasmanda women are subjected to, and how by excluding them from their respective agenda, feminist and Dalit activists have contributed towards their perpetual marginality. Finally, the article suggests that intersectionality framework should be used to understand moments of celebratory resilience in the lives of intersectional subjects.

scholarly journals Representasi Ideologi Islam dalam Cerita Pendek: Analisis Semiotika

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Euis Evi Puspitasari ◽  
Ahmad Rifai
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
New Order ◽  
Military Operation ◽  
Analysis Tools ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Interpretive Methods ◽  
The Status

AbstrakPenelitian ini menganalisis cerpen berjudul Jaring-jaring Merah sebagai wacana yang dikonstruksikan oleh penulis ceritanya, Helvy Tiana Rosa. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui tanda-tanda yang digunakan Helvy Tiana Rosa dalam mewakili pesan ideologi Islam pada cerpennya. Peneliti menggunakan metode interpretif dengan pendekatan kualitatif dan alat analisis semiotika dari Roland Barthes. Hasil penelitian menúnjukkan bahwa pada teks ditemukan beberapa tanda yang digunakan untuk mewakili ideologi Islam. Ideologi Islam yang mendominasi cerpen ini merepresentasikan tentang keadilan, akhlak perempuan muslim, dan persaudaraan umat Islam. Selain itu, terdapat perspektif fundamentalisme -untuk membedakannya dengan liberalisme- yang dilatarbelakangi oleh dua peristiwa sosial penting, yaitu runtuhnya pemerintahan Orde Baru dan pencabutan status Aceh sebagai Daerah Operasi Militer (DOM). Kedua peristiwa tersebut mendorong Helvy Tiana Rosa selaku pengarang, memunculkan wacana tandingan terhadap hegemoni wacana pada masa itu. Sehingga, pesan yang ditonjolkan memiliki kecenderungan dan pola yang berpihak kepada kaum tertindas. Kata kunci: Akhlak, Ideologi, Islam, Keadilan, Semiotika AbstractThis study analyzed the short story titled Red Nets as a discourse constructed by the author of the story, Helvy Tiana Rosa. The purpose of this study is to determine the signs used Helvy Tiana Rosa in representing the message of Islamic ideology in the short story. Researchers use interpretive methods with qualitative approach and semiotics analysis tools from Roland Barthes. The results showed that the text found several signs used to represent the ideology of Islam. Islamic ideology that dominates this short story represents about justice, morality of Muslim women, and the brotherhood of Muslims. In addition, there is a fundamentalist perspective - to distinguish it from liberalism - underpinned by two important social events, namely the collapse of the New Order government and the abrogation of the status of Aceh as a Military Operation Area (DOM). Both events encouraged Helvy Tiana Rosa as the author, bringing counter discourse to the hegemony of discourse at that time. Thus, the message highlighted has a tendency and pattern that stands for the oppressed.Keyword: Akhlak, Ideology, Islam, Justice, Semiotics

The Relationship of Interrogative Suggestibility to Memory and Attention

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.C. Howard ◽  
A. Chaiwutikornwanich
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Oddball Paradigm ◽  
Memory Processes ◽  
Memory And Attention ◽  
Irrelevant Distractors ◽  
Alternative Hypotheses ◽  
Visual Oddball Paradigm ◽  
Interrogative Suggestibility ◽  
Task Irrelevant

This study combined an individual differences approach to interrogative suggestibility (IS) with ERP recordings to examine two alternative hypotheses regarding the source of individual differences in IS: (1) differences in attention to task-relevant vis-à-vis task-irrelevant stimuli, and (2) differences in one or more memory processes, indexed by ERP old/new effects. Sixty-five female participants underwent an ERP recording during the 50 min interval between immediate and delayed recall of a short story. ERPs elicited by pictures that either related to the story (“old”), or did not relate to the story (“new”), were recorded using a three-stimulus visual oddball paradigm. ERP old/new effects were examined at selected scalp regions of interest at three post-stimulus intervals: early (250-350 ms), middle (350-700 ms), and late (700-1100 ms). In addition, attention-related ERP components (N1, P2, N2, and P3) evoked by story-relevant pictures, story-irrelevant pictures, and irrelevant distractors were measured from midline electrodes. Late (700-1100 ms) frontal ERP old/new differences reflected individual differences in IS, while early (250-350 ms) and middle latency (350-700 ms) ERP old/new differences distinguished good from poor performers in memory and oddball tasks, respectively. Differences in IS were not reflected in ERP indices of attention. Results supported an account of IS as reflecting individual differences in postretrieval memory processes.

Modesty Measure for Muslim Women

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aasim I. Padela ◽  
Shaheen Nageeb ◽  
Milkie Vu ◽  
Michael T. Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women

The Role of Muslim Women in Civil Society In Promoting Values and Principles for Building Peace: Action Guide from The Qur’ān

Sains Insani ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Che Amnah Bahari ◽  
Fatimah Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
Women And Children

The whole world, the Muslim in particular has witnessed conflicts in different areas, which have hindered the developmental efforts of the nations concerned. It should be learned that most victims of these conflicts are women and children. This article attempts to elaborate the role of Muslims Women as a crucial segment in civil society in initiating peace building through nurturing process. It maintains that the adoption of the principles and values derived from the Qur’ān and Sunnah of the Prophet is necessary as a process of lifelong learning.  Those identified values constituted the framework of this article and it adopts the textual analysis method.   This article concludes that through the implementation of those values and frameworks for peace building, women as one of the important segments of civil society are able to play significant role towards initiating peace building and promoting peaceful co-existence in pluralistic society. Abstrak: Dunia Islam khususnya telah menyaksikan konflik di pelbagai daerah yang berbeza. Konflik ini telah menghalang usaha kearah pembangunan Kawasan yang berkenaan. Kebanyakan mangsa konflik ini adalah wanita dan kanak-kanak. Artikel ini cuba untuk menghuraikan peranan wanita Islam sebagai segmen penting dalam masyarakat madani dalam membangun proses kedamaian dengan mendidik dan memupuk prinsip dan nilai murni janaan al-Qur’an. Penggunaan prinsip dan nilai yang dikutip dari ayat-ayat Qur'an dan hadis Rasulullah adalah keperluan yang mendesak sebagai wadah bagi proses pembelajaran sepanjang hayat. Nilai-nilai yang dikenal pasti merupakan rangka kerja artikel ini, dan metod yang dirujuk adalah analisis teks. Artikel ini menyimpulkan bahawa melalui pelaksanaan nilai-nilai dan kerangka kerja Islam bagi proses kedamaian, wanita Islam dalam masyarakat madani mampu memainkan peranan penting dalam memulakan pembinaan keamanan dan menggalakkan kehidupan yang harmonis, sejahtera dan saling bantu membantu dalam masyarakat majmuk.

Borrowing As A Tool To Fill The Ideological Thoughts: The Role Of Code-Mixing In An American Brat By Bapsi Sidhwa And The Escape By Qaisra Shiraz

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (II) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Native People ◽  
British Imperialism ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Bapsi Sidhwa ◽  
Code Mixing ◽  
Language And Literature

This research article highlights the temperament, inference, scope, and motives of code-mixing in Pakistani English works. One novel from Pakistani English novels namely, An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa, and one short story namely, The Escape by Qaisra Shehraz are being selected as an illustration of this reading. In this novel and short story, the writers have already dealt with the characteristics of postcolonialism. English language and literature pierced into the privileged civilizations of the sub-continent, after the end of British Imperialism. Pakistani writers in English are the best interpreter of the post-colonial communal language. In this study, I have hit upon code-mixing in English works written by Pakistani authors to a bigger echelon. These works are paragons of arts and the unbelievable mixture of rhetorical and fictitious study. In these works, the writers have not abased the confined diversities. They have tinted the value of Pakistani English in order to achieve the chatty desires of native people. These borrowings from the native languages are used to fill the lexical fissures of ideological thoughts. The reason of these borrowings is not to represent the English as a substandard assortment. Through the utilization of native words, we conclude that the significance of native languages has been tinted to question mark the dialect as well. The words of daily use also have an area of research for English people without having any substitute in English. That’s why in English literature innovative practices and ideas of code-mixing have been employed.

Deconstructive Analysis Of The Short Story “Saleema” By Daniyal Mueenuddin

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-125
Author(s):  
Omama Tanvir ◽  
Nazish Amir
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Male Character ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Power And Authority

The aim of this research is to apply deconstructive approach to a short story. For this purpose Daniyal Mueenuddin’s short story “Saleema” is selected and analyzed. Through deconstruction the feminist reading of the story is dismantled and the power dynamics of the patriarchal Pakistani society are subverted. The research is anchored in Derrida’s concept of unreliability of language and Cuddon’s idea of reversal of binary oppositions. The paper finds that the protagonist Saleema is not as weak and oppressed as she is perceived to be, rather she is a resilient, independent woman who uses any means possible to get what she wants. The power and authority reside with her and not with any male character. The study is purely qualitative and exploratory in nature.

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