scholarly journals Conflicting and Challenging Patriarchal and Liberal Feminist Ideologies and Norms in Afghanistan: Critical Stylistic Study of Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aziz Ahmad ◽  
Rab Nawaz Khan
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
Epistemic Modality ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Liberal Feminism ◽  
Subordinate Clauses ◽  
Feminist Ideology ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology ◽  
The Status ◽  
Stereotypical Image ◽  
Patriarchal Social Structure

The study unveils the Afghan patriarchal ideology and norms that are in conflict and challenge with liberal feminist ideology in Khaled Hosseini’s (2013) And the Mountains Echoed, depicting the cultural and socio-political context of Afghanistan. Tools of critical stylistics, developed by Jefferies (2010), have been used to delve into the conflict as mentioned above. The conflict in ideologies leads to gender differences, and inequalities. Patriarchs view liberal feminism and its motive as a threat to patriarchal social structure. The study reveals how women challenge the monopoly and status-quo of patriarchs to raise their voice for their emancipation and free will in matters of their life. Women in Afghanistan are the nang (pride) and namoos (honor) of their families. Men, especially patriarchs, misperceive the status and image of women as damaging their reputation if they are granted full freedom in matters and walks of life. Nila Wahdati, a liberal feminist character in the novel, challenges the stereotypical image of women as fragile, fickle, and prone to sex. She even resists and negates the imposed traditional, conservative ideology and supremacy of her father. Through the use of language, women challenge the Afghan patriarchal thinking. The novelist has manipulated verb processes to represent the patriarchal ideology of the Afghan men, while the discourse-producers utilize nouns and modifications to indicate patriarchs’ contrary thinking towards women. Linguistic tools, like nouns, pronouns, pre-modifiers, negative evaluative words, epistemic modality, and subordinate clauses, describe the conflict and challenge between patriarchal and liberal feminist ideologies.

scholarly journals Conspicuous Invisibility: Votive Offerings from Female Dedicators on the Athenian Acropolis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Stacey Wellington
Keyword(s):  
Working Women ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Significant Extent ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Votive Offerings

<p>The mechanics of Athenian society in many ways empowered citizen women as essential components of their community. This reality, being at odds with Athens’ pervasive patriarchal ideology, was obscured by men anxious to affirm the status quo, but also by women who sought to represent themselves as ‘ideal’ examples of their sex. Using the votive offerings dedicated by women to Athena on the Athenian Acropolis in the Archaic and Classical periods as a basis, this thesis explores such tensions between the implicit value of Athenian women, which prompted them to engage meaningfully with their wider community, and the ideological edict for their invisibility. This discussion is based primarily on two points: firstly, that the naming of a male family member in votive inscriptions denotes female citizen status, thus articulating citizen women’s independent value and prestige within the polis; and secondly that the ubiquity of working women among the dedicators, and value of the offerings themselves, reveals women as controlling financial resources to a more significant extent than other sources would have us believe. In both cases, the actual value and authority of the female dedicators is concealed as the women aimed for a perception of conspicuous invisibility to legitimise their engagement with the public sphere.</p>

scholarly journals Who We Are Is What Makes Us Laugh: Humour as Discourse on Identity and Hegemony

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Ylagan
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
The Status ◽  
Popular Representations

There exists a sociocultural function to humour that is geared towards maintaining order through a subversion (or inversion) of the more serious, structured status quo, and while there is a pragmatic side to the dispensation of humour across any given society, humour can also serve a fundamentally ontological function in determining and representing a group’s identity. Though notions of social organization and culture exist and are perpetuated primarily within a group’s literary canon, as espoused for example in the privileging of genres such as the epic or the novel as loci of national identity, this paper argues that such identities can be just as effectively – if not better – constructed through popular representations in humour, especially in satirical content found in “ephemeral” mediums such as comic strips. Such representations in turn can be mobilized to complement or even dismantle the status quo and offer alternative paradigms of understanding national identities and cultural affiliations.

Perspectivas ecocríticas y tensiones narrativas en El padre de Blancanieves de Belén Gopegui

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-171
Author(s):  
Iulia Bobăilă ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Ecocritical Perspectives and Narrative Tensions in Belén Gopegui’s Snow White’s Father. The relationship between literature and ecology has come to the fore in the last few decades and has encompassed several dimensions approached within the evolving framework of ecocriticism. In this context, our purpose is twofold: to explore the possibilities of an ecocritical reading of Belén Gopegui’s novel Snow White’s Father and to highlight the way in which the characters’ uncomfortable questions, the fully-articulated answers and those still latent make up an intricate network of narrative tensions. At the core of the novel lies an all-pervading need of self-questioning and collective reassessment of values, interactions and ethical limits. Its characters are marked by doubt and hesitations regarding the reasons that make them strive for a change or defend the status quo they are fond of. Gopegui is able to perform a delicately-balanced walk on a tightrope between stern anti-capitalist principles and complex human motivations. Keywords: system, ideology, capitalism, ecocriticism, collective subject

scholarly journals Flight to Safety: COVID-Induced Changes in the Intensity of Status Quo Preference and Voting Behavior

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
JAMES BISBEE ◽  
DAN HONIG
Keyword(s):  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Investor Behavior ◽  
Primary Elections ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Status ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Induced Changes ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between anxiety and investor behavior is well known enough to warrant its own aphorism: a “flight to safety.” We posit that anxiety alters the intensity of voters’ preference for the status quo, inducing a political flight to safety toward establishment candidates. Leveraging the outbreak of the novel coronavirus during the Democratic primary election of 2020, we identify a causal effect of the outbreak on voting, with Biden benefiting between 7 and 15 percentage points at Sanders’s expense. A survey experiment in which participants exposed to an anxiety-inducing prompt choose the less disruptive hypothetical candidate provides further evidence of our theorized flight to safety among US-based respondents. Evidence from 2020 French municipal and US House primary elections suggests a COVID-induced flight to safety generalizes to benefit mainstream candidates across a variety of settings. Our findings suggest an as-yet underappreciated preference for “safe” candidates in times of anxiety.

scholarly journals NOVEL-FILM INTERFACE AND POSTCOLONIAL DYSTOPIA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TSITSI DANGAREMBGA’S NOVEL AND FILM, NERVOUS CONDITIONS AND NERIA

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-59
Author(s):  
Shadreck Nembaware
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tsitsi Dangarembga ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Sex Role Stereotyping ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The Status ◽  
Film Interface

This paper comparatively and contrastively explores two art forms, the novel and film, by the same artist, Tsitsi Dangarembga, with a view to gauging their effectiveness in con­figuring Zimbabwe’s postcolonial dispensation. What is gained and what is lost when an artist shifts from one art form to another? Dangarembga belongs to the protest tradition of Zimbabwean postcolonial artists and the conceptual fibre of this tradition is notably the dystopian themes like disillusionment, cultural confusion, sex-role stereotyping, as well as social power relations. Dangarembga’s canonical novel, Nervous conditions (1988), and the highest grossing film in Zimbabwean history, Neria (1993), are both sterling at­tempts within the feminist tradition. The film and novel mirror a society in the throes of an epochal transition, the sense of impending change giving the works the commonality of an apocalyptic vision. Against a backdrop shaped by the interplay of historical, cul­tural and colonial forces, the works become perceptive anthropological windows into a society replete with multiple contradictions. In both her novel and her film, Dangarembga equips her protagonists, Tambudzai and Neria respectively, with a self-defining voice that questions and subverts the status quo. Salient manifestations of toxic masculinity in this patriarchal society account for the subtlety with which Dangarembga critiques gender relations within and without the boundaries of race and class. The protagonists in both works undergo rigorous struggles from which they ultimately emerge as different persons. This paper focuses on the nature of this struggle and its concomitant change.

scholarly journals „Wieczna zabawa”? (Dmitrij Głuchowski, Futu.re)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 127-140
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Zywert ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Time ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Way

The paper aims at analyzing Dmitry Glukhovsky’s novel Future in the context of spending leisure time. The writer presents a society, which has overcome death. It gives rise to the question if “leisure time” still exists in such a situation; and if it does, what importance and functions it has in comparison with the life before “the era of everlasting life”. Glukhovsky indicates that overcoming death in an unnatural way freezes civilization in time, which leads to the dwindling of human creativity and, which is confirmed by the way human beings spend their free time in the novel, degeneration. Instead of making progress humankind focuses on maintain the status quo, In light of the abovementioned the only solution is restoring death perceived as the reconstruction of the natural order of things.

Lebanese-American Allies of the Bush Administration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadejda K Marinova
Keyword(s):  
Bush Administration ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

Utilizing firsthand interviews with activists and Lebanese diaspora leaders, the chapter centers on the active role of a coalition of Lebanese-American organizations who advanced their positions and those of the Bush administration in promoting, before UN diplomats, members of Congress, the public, and the media, the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1559 (2004). UNSCR 1559 mandated Syrian withdrawal from Lebanese territory and militia disarmament. The chapter also analyzes the involvement of Lebanese-American organizations in lobbying for the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act (2003). The novel relationship between US policymakers and their junior Lebanese-American allies was in contrast to the 1990s, when Washington was interested in preserving the status quo with Syria and doors had been closed for the Lebanese diaspora activists. The relationship upholds the theoretical model central to this work, and it traces the interaction between the Bush administration and Lebanese-American organizations from 2001 until 2005, when Syria withdrew its troops from Lebanon.

scholarly journals Conspicuous Invisibility: Votive Offerings from Female Dedicators on the Athenian Acropolis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Stacey Wellington
Keyword(s):  
Working Women ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Significant Extent ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Votive Offerings

<p>The mechanics of Athenian society in many ways empowered citizen women as essential components of their community. This reality, being at odds with Athens’ pervasive patriarchal ideology, was obscured by men anxious to affirm the status quo, but also by women who sought to represent themselves as ‘ideal’ examples of their sex. Using the votive offerings dedicated by women to Athena on the Athenian Acropolis in the Archaic and Classical periods as a basis, this thesis explores such tensions between the implicit value of Athenian women, which prompted them to engage meaningfully with their wider community, and the ideological edict for their invisibility. This discussion is based primarily on two points: firstly, that the naming of a male family member in votive inscriptions denotes female citizen status, thus articulating citizen women’s independent value and prestige within the polis; and secondly that the ubiquity of working women among the dedicators, and value of the offerings themselves, reveals women as controlling financial resources to a more significant extent than other sources would have us believe. In both cases, the actual value and authority of the female dedicators is concealed as the women aimed for a perception of conspicuous invisibility to legitimise their engagement with the public sphere.</p>

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