scholarly journals Incredulity Towards Metanarratives: A GenderBased Study of Sultanas Dream by Roqeyya Begum

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (II) ◽  
pp. 78-82
Author(s):  
Mehwish Malghani ◽  
Mehwish Ali Khan ◽  
Hina Naz
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
Power Center

Patriarchy has always been a dominant metanarrative among different societies, hence controlling all other power centered notions too. The ones affected, for instance, women started retaliating against dominance but postmodernism gave them a platform. Roqqeya Sakahwat Hussein in 1905 wrote a short story Sultanas Dream A qualitative based study, utilizing textual analysis has been done to look at Sultanas dream through the lens of Postmodernism based on Lyotards theory of Incredulity towards grand and metanarratives. The analysis shows Husseins (1905) rejection of grand narrative, i.e gender here, in her short story Sultas Dream. She presented a land where women are assigned roles based on power, logic and reasoning. They are rulers, scientists and educationists and males were not even visible in the story. They were barbarious, and bound to stay in boundaries. It is thus highlighted that Hussein (1905) has shown incredulity towards the power center and metanarrative, which is gender here.

The concept of baxt in the bilingual short-story collection glücksmacher - e baxt romani by Samuel Mago and Károly Mágó

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-241
Author(s):  
LORELY FRENCH
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Story Collection

This article presents a close reading of the Romani characters and their actions in five stories by Viennese Romani writer and activist Samuel Mago and in two stories by his brother, Hungarian award-winning journalist Károly Mágó, in their bilingual Romani and German collection glücksmacher - e baxt romani. Brief biographies and an outline of the history of Roma and antiziganism in Austria provide background to textual analysis that focuses on how characters in the stories engender baxt/“Glück,” which means both happiness and luck. This dual meaning has inspired philosophical, psychological, economic, and anthropological studies, but literary scholars have rarely examined the concept in texts by Roma. For the protagonists in the brothers’ stories, happiness and luck become based less on monetary fortunes than on other means to live and survive in dark times of persecution and discrimination. The characters’ decisions unveil perceptions of baxt that rely largely on acquiring food, preserving and passing down family heirlooms, receiving an education, and freeing oneself and one’s family from persecution.

scholarly journals Decoding the Thematic Imagery in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Katherine Mansfield’s “Bliss”

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Nidhi Angurala
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Thematic Framework ◽  
The Yellow Wallpaper

This paper deploys the methodology of textual analysis to re-read and undertake an exegesis of the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Bliss” penned by modernist writer Katherine Mansfield. The exploration of the symbols and imagery that abound in the texts reveal and underscore the thematic framework of the short stories. While the colour, animal and food imagery add richness to the story of Bertha Mason in “Bliss”, the multifarious symbols are symptomatic of the protagonist’s mental make-up and the descent into madness of her creative propensity in “The Yellow Wallpaper”.

scholarly journals Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Woman: An Analysis of Alice Munro’s “Nettles” from the Perspective of an Initiation Story

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Xiaohui Xue
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Aged Woman ◽  
Middle Aged Woman

<p>“Nettles” is a short story by the famous contemporary Canadian female writer Alice Munro. It is a multi-thematic story since many scholars have done research on its themes from such angles as love and marriage, the perplexity about life and feminism, etc. Nevertheless, few critics have studied it as an initiation story. Thus, by employing textual analysis as the research approach, this article studies “Nettles” from the perspective of an initiation story in terms of its content, characters and structure. Finally, the research draws the conclusion that “Nettles” is a typical initiation story about a middle-aged woman, depicting how she turns from a spiritually immature woman into a mature one.</p>

scholarly journals Whose Vision Is It Anyway? The “Free Internet” in Chinese State Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-38
Author(s):  
Stefan Brehm
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Strategic Narratives ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
Global Affairs

This study seeks to explain how Chinese state media bolster the use of visions in global internet governance. The empirical data for the article consist of 1,158 internet-related articles published in the Global Times between 2009 and 2018. I develop a theoretical perspective that distinguishes between grand and strategic narratives. Based on a mixed-methods approach, I show that “internet sovereignty” has qualified as a grand narrative since the second half of 2013. State media facilitate this shift with strategic narratives that push the content and context of “internet sovereignty” from domestic political rationales towards a matter of global affairs. The article contributes to theoretical and methodological advancement in textual analysis.

scholarly journals Contesting Imagi-Nations of Nation and Region Through the use of Language in Saadat Hasan Manto’s Toba Tek Singh

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Prakriti Arora
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The People ◽  
Mixed Modes ◽  
Partition Of India

Purpose: This research paper is an attempt to examine the themes of colonialism, diaspora, and sufferance caused by the partition of India and Pakistan through the lens of language and conflict in identities. The paper also seeks to delve deeper upon the consequent breakdown of language as depicted in the short-story Toba Tek Singh. Methodology/ Approach: Textual analysis of mixed modes of reading.  Findings: The short story effectively traced the turmoil and clamour enveloping the people afflicted by the events that followed the partition. Rich with the themes of colonialism, diaspora and the horrors of the partition, the text brought the issues being faced by the people in a way that they were subtly intermeshed within the discourses of the inmates of the mental asylum, which was where the story was situated. The text, characteristically a short story, reflects the feelings of the people that sprouted during and after the partition in a nonchalant way. This subtlety and novelty of expression questions the basis of a ‘nation’. Conclusion: The short-story revolves around the accounts of a number of inmates who are seemingly devastated by the new changes and the new ways of labelling lands. Even if they are able to make sense of this imposed change, they refuse to reason with it completely as a few of them must be relocated, which would consequently distance them from their friends.

scholarly journals Nuevas dinámicas literarias, nuevos retos teóricos. La teoría de la literatura y la minificción

2016 ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Darío Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Face ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
Theory Of Literature

Ante el desarrollo contemporáneo de la minificción y, en concreto, de géneros como el microrrelato, la Teoría de la Literatura debe revisar ciertos parámetros de análisis textual y de clasificación genérica, asumiendo así los nuevos retos críticos que estas innovadoras tendencias le han impuesto.      In the face of the contemporary development of microfiction and, in particular, of genres such as short-short story, the Theory of Literature should review certain parameters of textual analysis and generic classification, thus taking into account the new critical challenges that these innovative trends has imposed to it.

scholarly journals Narasi-narasi Kecil (Mikronarasi) dalam genre Fiksi Pedesaan Pendekatan Posmodernisme terhadap Cerpen Menghilang Bersama Angin karya Xing Qingjie

Bambuti ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-85
Author(s):  
Stevani Konistiawati ◽  
Hin Goan Gunawan, SS, M.TCSOL
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Lu Xun ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Famous People ◽  
Postmodern Fiction ◽  
Modern Fiction ◽  
Village People ◽  
Main Basis

The short story text Disappearing with the Wind by Xing Qingjie as a representation of the rural fiction genre in Chinese Literature attempts to refute the grand narratives of modern fiction. For the author of the text, the power of modernity is not eternal, but can be subverted or deconstructed by giving acknowledgment to the small voices represented by Mr Zou, Sha Xiaobao, and the idiot woman in Disappearing with the Wind. This study uses a postmodernism approach to map the elements of disorientation, abnormality and small voices in that short story. Affirmation of the micronarrative is a way of working of postmodern fiction in challenging the power of modernity with the grand narrative as its main basis. For Xing Qingjie, reality does not always depend on big people, famous people, but can also be celebrated by village people, unusual people, including people who are marginalized in modern life. In his lawsuit, the presence of this text will emphasize that there is no central, no peripheral. All can be the center, and all can also be the periphery. Rural fiction pioneered by Lu Xun proves that denial of the power of grand narratives is possible in the same way that Xing Qingjie has done in a number of his works, including the short story Disappearing with the Wind.

scholarly journals Barthian Semiotics in Prince Bahram, In search of Gulandama

2017 ◽  
Vol II (I) ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
Liaqat Iqbal ◽  
Irfan Ullah ◽  
Reena Khan
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Cultural Code ◽  
Almost All

The paper aims at finding Ronald Barthes’ codes in the short story Prince Bahram, In Search of Gulandama. Using textual analysis, the short story was is analysed in the light of Ronald Barthes five codes. It is found that almost all of Ronald Barthes’ codes: hermeneutic, proairetic, semantic, symbolic and cultural codes are present in the short story. The story has puzzles and enigmas which inspire the readers to read the story in order to answer the unanswered questions. Like other stories, in this short story too, sequence is created through proairetic code. There are implied meanings, which bring forth the semantics code. Paradoxes, where binaries are the most import elements, are represented through symbolic codes. Lastly, there are many cultural elements, showing the cultural code. These different aspects gives a comprehensive narrative structure to the story.

scholarly journals MAINTAINING THE SELF-EXISTENCE THROUGH SHORT STORY “JALAN SUMUR MATI”

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-162
Author(s):  
Dessy Wahyuni ◽  
Yeni Maulina
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Physical Development ◽  
The Self ◽  
Practice Elements ◽  
Discourse Practice

Riau is a wealthy region where physical development appears everywhere. However, many people are marginalized and neglected by this development. Due to this fact, most Riau Malay people tend to have negative prejudice and not accept the presence of foreign immigrants, including Indonesian Chinese. However, Olyrinson can blend in with the local community through his work, which often raises topics about humanity and his real-life. Using a three-dimensional framework of Fairclough (1989; 1992a; 1992b; 1995a; and 1995b), this study critically explores the various efforts made by Olyrinson in the short story "Jalan Sumur Mati" to defend his existence by changing prejudices. In this case, the author analyzes relevant texts and explores dialectical relationships between literary works and other social practice elements, which will be presented through textual analysis, discourse practice, and social practice.

scholarly journals Ideological Fantasy of an Indonesian Absurdist in Danarto’s Short Story Godlob

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Asep Anugrah
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Objective Analysis ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Ideological Criticism ◽  
Critical Form ◽  
Ideological Fantasy

Reasoning about ideological criticism through literary work can be seen from how the literary work represents the ideology of the author as a critical form of social dominated ideology. The matter is when the criticism exactly shows paradox with what the author delivered, so the type of ideological criticism has been described by the author with real literary work which uses language as a medium. Therefore, the author's subjectivity of literary work is just symbolization which forms as post-ideology and it is termed by Žižek as cynicism which only appears on the level of ideological fantasy. This matter is applied by the researcher to analyze Danarto’s short story Godlob. This research focuses on Danarto’s ideology which is offered as radical acts by the characters. This research method leads to textual and objective analysis to detect radical action in Godlob Short Story. The result of the textual analysis is presented with the subjectivity of the author, which produces harmony as well as the paradox of radical action. This is what described in the discourse of Danarto's short story Godlob about; (1) how the radical actions of the characters are depicted in the Godlob short story, and (2) how ideological fantasies are generated through the encounter of both literary subjects in the Godlob short story. The goal is to see that ideological criticism through literary works is not only through the phenomenon but also through the reality itself. In other words, by analyzing radical action textually and then confronted with the author's subjectivity, the paradox of ideological criticism can be embedded in the discourse of this study. Based on the analysis, literary works as a criticism shows how ideological fantasy comes as a result of the cynicism of the author. Danarto seemed to be immersed in an ideology that he criticized in his work.

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