scholarly journals Figura del otro en la novela "El cartero de Neruda"de Antonio Skármeta. Un estudio analístico

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (126) ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Hanan Younus Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Love Poetry ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Antonio Skarmeta ◽  
The People

The aim of this study is to research in figure of the “other” and his relationship to the “ego” and sometimes the “other” with “we” for the purpose of continuing living in life in the novel “The Postman of Neruda” the novel presents a lot of topics like friendship and the struggle of the people of Chile but the topic of love is the main one, all these are presented by the author through the events and dialogues which were simple in language and display in the work. In addition to that there are a lot of elements that moved the events in the work, although the characters were few but they have got a huge effect in their structure, with that we can say that these elements: love, poetry, women, struggle, nature and real historical events. “The Postman of Neruda”  it is a research on sensations and human feelings through his relation with all these elements.

scholarly journals Poetic Frameworks and Narrative Procedures of Bosnia and Herzegovina Novels about Kulin Ban

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4(17)) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Melida Travančić
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This paperwork presents the literary constructions of Kulin Ban's personality in contemporary Bosnian literature on the example of three novels: Zlatko Topčić Kulin (1994), Mirsad Sinanović Kulin (2007), and Irfan Hrozović Sokolarov sonnet (2016). The themes of these novels are real historical events and historical figures, and we try to present the way(s) of narration and shape the image of the past and the way the past-history-literature triangle works. Documentary discourse is often involved in the relationship between faction and fiction in the novel. Yet, as can be seen from all three novels, it is a subjective discourse on the perception of Kulin Ban today and the period of his reign, a period that could be characterized as a mimetic time in which great, sudden, and radical changes take place. If the poetic extremes of postmodernist prose are on the one hand flirting with trivia, and on the other sophisticated meta- and intertextual prose, then the Bosnian-Herzegovinian romance of the personality of Kulina Ban fully confirms just such a range of stylistic-narrative tendencies of narrative texts of today's era.

scholarly journals The Compability of Islam with Pluralism: Two Historical Precedents

ICR Journal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 613-628
Author(s):  
Maher Y. Abu-Munshar
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
The Other ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Intercultural Relations ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
The People ◽  
The City

For Muslims, Islam is a religion of peace and harmony. For many non-Muslims today, it appears as a religion that promotes hatred and violence. Sadly, terrorist attacks, often carried out by Muslims, have exacerbated prejudices against Islam and Muslims in general, leading many non-Muslims to believe that Muslims are inherently militant and irrational people who neither tolerate nor accept living and cooperating with the followers of other religions and that Islam does not believe in pluralism and diversity. In this article, two important historical precedents will be elaborated and critically analysed. The first is the ‘Constitution of Medina’ (Sahifat al-Madinah), while the other is ‘Umar b. al-Khattab’s ‘Assurance of Safety’ to the people of Aelia - Byzantine Jerusalem - which he granted to them upon his conquest of the city in 637, guaranteeing their security and religious freedom. By studying these two historical precedents, the author attempts to demonstrate that Islam - as outlined in the Qur’an and exemplified by the life of Muhammad and his Companions - actually accepts, celebrates and even encourages diversity and pluralism. Although documents and historical events can certainly also be interpreted differently, the author’s views are somewhat representative for the standard Muslim perspective on intercultural relations.  

Volavérunt

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Antonio Larreta ◽  
Malcolm Coad
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
Francisco Goya ◽  
Police Report ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Aristocratic Culture

‘Impossible not to think of Russian dolls,’ writes Antonio Larreta in the prologue to this novel The book juxtaposes different kinds of testimony to cast varying lights on historical events. The novel turns on the death in July 1802 of Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva y Alvarez de Toledo, the 13th Duchess of Alba and the subject of several paintings by Francisco Goya, notably the famous pair of pictures, La Maja Vestida ('La Maja clothed) and La Maja Desnuda (‘La Maja nude’), the second of which caused a major scandal in Spanish society when it was exhibited The novel is constructed around two apocryphal testimonies regarding her death, one supposedly by Goya himself, and the other by Don Manuel Godoy, Duke of Alcudia, a friend but political enemy of the Duchess. The first of these is recounted by Godoy as part of his own statement written in 1848. Both testimonies, plus a police report about the death and a letter sent to Godoy by another participant in the events, are purportedly found by the author in 1980 among papers in a house in Paris belonging to his Uruguayan mother's third husband, Lorenzo de Pita y Evora, Marquess of Peñadolida. There are notes added throughout the text written notionally by Pita y Evora in 1939 and by Larreta himself. The issue throughout is whether the Duchess died naturally, was poisoned or committed suicide. The novel is concerned with the corruption of a luxurious and decadent aristocratic culture, preoccupied with political intrigue and artistic show. The figure of the Duchess, a brilliant schemer, hostess and cocaine addict, is central to this world; her death throws it into crisis, setting up reverberations which echo down the ensuing 150 years. The extract of Volavérunt which follows is from Goya's description of the soiree after which the Duchess is found dying. The paragraph in parentheses is comment by Godoy, and the notes are by Larreta drawing from Pita y Evora (notionally, of course). Goya, it should be pointed out, was substantially deaf by the time of the events he describes.

Revealing the Social Stratums of Castesim in Aravind Adiga’s Between the Assassinations

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1063-1068
Author(s):  
V. Chithra Devi ◽  
Dr. V. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Story Line ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Town

Aravind Adiga’s novel, Between the Assassinations offers a picturesque presentation of the implications of castes and religions in our country. The author through the novel explains, how religious and caste activists are exploiting the marginalized people in India. The manipulation is showcased, realistically in the form of life situations through his characters. Between the Assassinations is a collection of short stories that spellout historical events that happened during the seven years lapse of time, between the assassination of Former Prime Minister Indra Gandhi, and her son Rajeev Gandhi. The seven stories highlight the dynamics of multicultural, multiethnic and multireligious practices that are prevalent in India.  Each story line is independent from the other, while the setting of each story and its character sprung up from the town Kittur. The story’s milieu, portrays the hindrances, characters face and how they overcome such hazards from the religious activists.

scholarly journals A Motivator’s Act of Persuasion on Dynamic Characters in Les Miserables Novel’s Victor Hugo

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Helmita Helmita ◽  
Mutiara Medina
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Victor Hugo ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Psychological Analysis ◽  
The People ◽  
Les Miserables

The problem in this analysis is the motivator character from the story that he can change a lot of people around him. This motivator has brought the most of characters in the novel to become the better person. Not only have the people who love and respect him, but he also changed the people that hate him through his act of persuasion. In this study, the researcher applies the psychological analysis and genetic structuralism, it has a role to explain literary work as structure base on the elements that formed them, which are society and social life. The motivator has changed his character because the kindness of Bishop Myriel, Fantine has changed her character because the evil of Thénardier couples. Meanwhile, the other three characters, Javert, Cosette, and Marius, all of them have changed because the actions of Motivator through the act of persuasion. There are a lot of way to persuade others, and Motivators’ act of persuasion proves to be successful on this novel.

scholarly journals Train to Pakistan: A Saga of Unsalvaged Suffering

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Dr. Alka Bansal
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
The People ◽  
Partition Of India ◽  
The Village ◽  
Human Tragedy

The torments of the colossal human tragedy of the partition of India and its aftermath are still being borne by the people of India in some way or the other. The fissured social and emotional spirit of the people is still not healed. The horrific scenes of partition still haunt the psyche of the Indians. Millions were massacred and those that were alive were like live corpses moving around. Their sufferings are unfathomed. They not only suffered physically but also mentally and emotionally. Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan is a novel that unfolds all aspects of suffering and pain which were endured by the people at that time. Singh has been successful in communicating to his readers the tribulations of the partition days, the harrowing experiences, grossness, the madness and the bestial horrors.The displacement of people from one country to another became the root cause of the whole holocaust. The village which bustled with activity turned into a kenopsia. Singh’s rankling at the idea of partition can be perceived in the novel. In the novel, Singh has vehemently written about every aspect of the dreaded violence to which women were subjected. It is quite obvious from the conditions prevailing in India that this splitting of the country was a futile effort. It sowed the seeds of communal discord permanently. People are still suffering they have not fully recovered from this psychosomatic trauma. The seeds of harmful weeds that were sown by the partition are still being reaped by the Indians.

Nature as myth, symbol and action: notes towards a historical understanding of development and conservation in Kenyan Maasailand

Africa ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan N. Knowles ◽  
D. P. Collet
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Structural Form ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Structural Framework ◽  
The People ◽  
Colonial Encounter ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Causal Sequence ◽  
Historical Accounts

Opening ParagraphHistory is often presented as a unilineal process whereby events follow on from each other in a causal sequence: A gives rise to B which in turn leads to C. While this structural form is extremely compelling as explanation, it has limitations when applied to the colonial encounter. The differences between the beliefs and practices of the people involved in this encounter, and the consequent variety in perceived significances of individual events, make it almost impossible to construct a unified history. The diversity of perceptions in historical events has been recognised and is most clearly seen in those historical accounts of the colonial encounter written from the perspective of the ‘other’ (Sahlins, 1981; 1985). However, these analyses, by focusing on events, still maintain the structural framework of conventional history.

Time and Affect After 9/11

2019 ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Anna McFarlane
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Alternate History ◽  
The Status ◽  
Main Protagonist

Lavie Tidhar’s Osama (2011) cannot be categorised unproblematically as an alternate history novel, it does however use alternate history as a discourse to explore the status of history and alternate history in the aftermath of 9/11 and the other terrorist attacks referenced throughout the novel. Osama shows that historiography itself has changed in the aftermath of 9/11 and now demands that the emotional impact of historical events be taken into account by historians, a demand that I argue is recognised by the rise of affect theory in academia. Through the trauma of the main protagonist alternate history and history itself become narrative practices undermined by Tidhar’s refusal to anchor the action of his plots to specific dates and names. The time of trauma is non-linear and affective, and this chapter asks how political action or narrative sense can be made possible in such a milieu.

scholarly journals REALISME MAGIS DALAM NOVEL SIMPLE MIRACLE DOA DAN ARWAH KARYA AYU UTAMI

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Sandra Whilla Mulia
Keyword(s):  
Magical Realism ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Magic Realism ◽  
Dead Person ◽  
The People ◽  
Modern Era

This study are intend to reach some goals. First, this aimed to uncover the magic realism which is narrated in Ayu Utami’s novel, entitled Simple Miracle DoaDan Arwah. Second, this study aimed to discover socio cultural context which form the background of the emerging of magic realism of narrative in Ayu Utami’s novel entitled Simple Miracle Doa dan Arwah. This research utilizes magic realism narrative theory on the book Ordinary Enchantments Magical Realism andRemystifiction of Narratives written by Wendy B. Faris (2004). This is a qualitative study which employed textual analysis to analyze the obtained data. The results of 2 this study were magic realism which was narrated in the novel were not only loaded by the characteristics of Faris’ magic realism by showing the exquisite existence of myth in this modern era, but also written to be in charge of bracing and reorganizing people’s believe in Javanese myth. Socio cultural context which form the background of the emerging of this novel was Javanese culture that still exist in this modern era. This was also added by the comeback of traditional ambience which made its existence popular nowadays. From the analysis this had emerged two issues, social issues and signification issues. The emerging social issues are the Javanese culture in which the people tend to fancy mystics. These mystics are related to ghosts. In addition, the other issue is about acculturation of religions in Java Island. Besides the issues, the signification obtained were: (1) Javanese will always hold their believe in ghost; (2) in Java, shaman and spirits or ghost are correlated to the second alternative to realize dreams; (3) shaman identity is identical with someone who has an ability to see and communicate with spirits or ghosts; (4) there is a believe that spirits and ghosts are everywhere; (5) Javanese believe that every dead person will soon become spirits and ghosts and they will eternally live around them; (6) atheist will rarely be seen in Java; (7) religions in Java Island will always blend themselves with the culture.

scholarly journals A construção do personagem Sinésio no Romance d’A Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta, de Ariano Suassuna, e na minissérie A Pedra d’o Reino, de Luiz Fernando Carvalho

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-184
Author(s):  
Fernanda Cristina Araújo Batista
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Poor People ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Eightieth Birthday ◽  
Local Elite ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The People ◽  
Communist Revolution ◽  
The One

Resumo: Nosso objetivo neste trabalho é analisar a minissérie A Pedra d’o Reino (2007), produzida pela Rede Globo em parceria com a Academia de Filmes, e dirigida por Luiz Fernando Carvalho, em relação à obra literária que lhe deu origem, o Romance d’A Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta (1971), de Ariano Suassuna. A análise diz respeito, principalmente, à construção do personagem Sinésio, primo e sobrinho do narrador-protagonista, que em ambas as obras é uma figura ambígua: considerada messiânica pelo narrador e pela população pobre do sertão da Paraíba, que a comparam ao Rei Dom Sebastião e a Jesus Cristo, e, em contrapartida, vista como impostora e perigosa pela elite do local, a qual acredita que ele, a mando de Luís Carlos Prestes, quer ludibriar o povo a fim de mobilizá-lo para que venha a desencadear a Revolução Comunista. Carvalho concebeu a minissérie como uma homenagem aos oitenta anos de vida de Suassuna e, apesar de ter toda a liberdade para transformar o que considerasse necessário no romance para transpor sua narrativa para o formato minissérie, optou por manter a essência e os aspectos principais do texto fonte, ao também dialogar aberta e ricamente com outros textos e gêneros do discurso.Palavras-chave: Ariano Suassuna; Luiz Fernando Carvalho; minissérie; A Pedra do Reino; Sinésio.Abstract: The aim of this paper is to compare the miniseries A Pedra do Reino (2007), co-produced by Rede Globo and Academia de Filmes and directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho, and the literary work that originated it, Ariano Suassuna’s novel Romance d’A Pedra do Reino e o príncipe do sangue do vai-e-volta (1971). The analysis concerns the portrayal of Sinésio, a character who is the narrator’s cousin and nephew and who preserves his ambiguous nature in both pieces, miniseries and book. On the one hand, he is seen as a Messiah by the narrator and the poor people in the backlands of Paraíba, who compare him to Portuguese king Dom Sebastião and to Jesus Christ. On the other hand, he is seen as an impostor by the local elite, who believe that he is trying to get the people to fight for the Communist Revolution on behalf of Luís Carlos Prestes. Carvalho conceived the miniseries as a homage to Suassuna’s eightieth birthday and, although being able to change whatever was needed when adapting the novel to the screen, he chose to keep the essence and the most important aspects of the source by, at the same time, making various references to other texts and discourse genres.Keywords: Ariano Suassuna; Luiz Fernando Carvalho; miniseries; A Pedra do Reino; Sinésio.

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