scholarly journals Re-Writing Muslim Identity and Self against Western Discourse of Terrorism in Naqvi’s Home Boy

sjesr ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-75
Author(s):  
Abdul Rashid ◽  
Dr. Sarwat Jabeen ◽  
Sara Shahbaz
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Western World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Muslim Identity ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Third World

Since, the incident of 9/11, the identity of the Muslims across the globe have gone through serious misrepresentations by the western media. This paper provides the insights that how the Muslims have been treated as suspected ones by the westerns. The loyalties of the Muslims were suspected and doubted in America in response to the incident of 9/11. Muslims were victimized on account of their negatively perceived identity. In-Home Boy the Muslim immigrants consistently attempt to re-write and negotiate their identity in response to their misrepresentations of identity. For thematic analysis, theoretical insights have been taken from Almond’s The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard. The textual analysis of the novel reveals that the Muslims in the western world were already suspected due to the orientalist mind-set of the American society but the incident of 9/11 aggravated this situation in practical social settings. Naqvi speaks for the voiceless Muslims of the third world whose identities had been erased by blowing discursive discourse of 9/11. Naqvi provides readers the sufferings of the Muslims and extends the relevance of 9/11 from Euro-American context to the non-western i.e. the Asians.

scholarly journals Being Muslim Immigrants in America: Preservation, Resistance, and Negotiation of Identity in Ayad Akhtar’s “American Dervish”

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Rika Handayani
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Negotiation Of Identity ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
American Society

This thesis entitled ‘Being Muslim Immigrants in America: Preservation, Resistance, and Negotiation of Identity in Ayad Akhtar’s ‘American Dervish’ aims to analyze the depiction of Muslim immigrants identity in the context of diaspora. Through the lenses of Hall’s theory of identity and Clifford’s  diaspora, the analysis centered on how the Muslim immigrant characters in the novel interacted with other individuals with diverse backgrounds of race, gender, and religion. This contributed towards the construction of identity through the preservation and resistance of homeland culture, dominant culture or host land culture and the negotiation between Muslim immigrants and their state and American society. Therefore, the Muslim immigrant characters in the novel hold a non-essential and fluid identity as portrayed from the perpetual construction of identity.

scholarly journals NEGOSIASI BUDAYA DAN DIALEKTIKA KEKUASAAN DALAM DISKURSUS (POS)KOLONIAL: DISKUSI TENTANG A BACKWARD PLACE KARYA R. P. JHABVALA (Cultural Negotiation and Power Dialectics in (Post)Colonial Discourse: A Discussion on R. P. Jhabvala’s A Backward Place)

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Fitria Mayasari
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Power Relation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Third ◽  
Cultural Negotiation ◽  
The Third World ◽  
First World ◽  
World Image

Penyajian sejumlah teks sastra poskolonial berusaha mengubah citra dunia ketiga dalam dikotomi kaku dunia pertama/dunia ketiga, namun malah menunjukkan apa yang disebut Bhabha colonial mimicry di mana permasalahan ‘nativism’ justru mengasingkan isu identitas (origin) dan membentuk situs kekuasaan baru (Gandhi, 1998). Karya-karya Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, khususnya novel A Backward Place, mengindikasikan gejala tersebut. Esai ini membahas negosiasi budaya dan dialektika kekuasaan yang mengaburkan batasan-batasan biner kerangka pemikiran kolonial. Pendekatan yang  digunakan dalam analisis adalah pendekatan poskolonial. Analisis dalam esai ini berfokus pada persilangan kedua ideologi yang bertentangan pada ranah publik dan pada ranah domestik. Esai terlebih dahulu memetakan relasi kuasa di antara pribumi dan ekspatriat dalam narasi. Selanjutnya, negosiasi budaya dan dialektika kekuasaan dibahas berdasarkan pemetaan tersebut. Persilangan dua ideologi yang bertentangan dalam pemetaan kekuasaan yang sudah dianalisis menghasilkan narasi yang ambivalen.Abstract:  Many of postcolonial texts attempts to change the third world image within the rigid dichotomy first world/third world. However, their presentation ended up being what Bhabha called colonial mimicry in which the problem of ‘nativism’ alienates orginal identity and creates a new power site (Gandhi, 1998). Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s works, specifically the novel A Backward Place, indicate the exact symptoms. This essay discusses cultural negotiation that blur boundaries between colonial dichotomy using postcolonial approach. Analysis focuses on the crossings of two contradicting ideologies both in public and domestic spheres.  First, power relation between the natives and expatriats in the narrative is mapped. Second, cultural negotiation and power dialectics is discussed based on that power relation mapping. The crossings of two conflicting ideologies is making the narrative ambivalent.

scholarly journals The Portrayal of Traumatic Impacts of 9/11 in Fiction: A Counter Discourse of Third Worlds Female Trauma in Waldmans The Submission

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 10-17
Author(s):  
Abdul Rashid ◽  
Sarwat Jabeen ◽  
Samia Naz
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Third World Women ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Impact

The incident of 9/11 opened up new challenges for the Americans and people of the world. As the terrorists were men, the incident of 9/11 was generally seen as a masculine event thus erasing the traumatic sufferings of women. The present paper is aimed to trace the impact of Western culturally constructed trauma against the third world women. The major theoretical insights have been taken from Kaplan (2003)s Feminist Futures: Trauma, the Post-9/11 World and a Fourth Feminism. The analyzed data reveals that the identity of Asma Anwar as representative of third world women remains unstable. She has been represented as an object of no significance in the American society. We see that Asma Anwar as a woman of the third world had to bear the burden of history as well as her body

scholarly journals Manufacturing Consent

1990 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-94
Author(s):  
Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Third World ◽  
Comparative Investigation ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Western World ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Media Systems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Third World

With the increased efficiency of mass communication technology therehas been enhanced sophistication in its varied utilization. Correspondingly,a few fresher perspectives of mass media analysis have also appeared in recentyears.Wiebe's (1975) The Segmented Society offered a sociological interpretationof mass media contents which, according to him, aggravated the growingisolation of individuals from their social organizations. Williams (1982) wroteof serious dangers of the concentrated control of powerful media. In the sameyear, Berger (1982) dealt with the three types of media analysis techniquesfrom the perspectives of a) structural-functionalist; b) serniological; andc) Marxist. Berger sounded rather casual about the misuse of media by certainindividuals or groups. To him it seemed just a matter of varying perspectivesto find faults with each other's media systems in the tradition of inter-ideologicalrivalry among researchers subscribing to the three different schools of thought.Lowery and DeFleur (1983, 1988) identified the major milestone in theevolution of communication research. In this process, they discovered severalinstances of misuse of mass media and of media research for commercialand political purposes. But their disapproval of such practices in the Americansociety was relatively mild and subdued. Martin's and Chaudhary's (1983 )work seems to be the first comprehensive comparative investigation into massmedia systems currently operating in the world. They have compared andcontrasted modes of control, goals and roles of media in the Western,Communist, and the Third World nations. In relative terms, Martin andChaudhary are right in asserting that in the Western world "press freedombelongs primarily to the individual and secondarily to private groups." However,one needs to look deeper to be able to measure the extent to which the individualcontrols the Western media. It is this research concern that should lead usto a fuller discussion of the book under review here.Looking into the political economy of information in the global context,Mowlana (1988) justifies the "fear and frustration of Third World nations."He quotes Schiller (1981) to prove his point that the so-called 'free flow' ofinformation does not exist, for "There are 'selectors and controllers' who shiftand shape the messages that circulate in society." ...

MS. MARVEL AS A REPRESENTATION OF THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICAN IDENTITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Ashika Prajnya Paramita
Keyword(s):  
Minority Group ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Western World ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
American Society

In early 2014, Marvel Comics released a new series called Ms. Marvel. The main character of this series is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl named Kamala Khan. Her story is a breakthrough against the negative representation of Islam in the Western world, especially after 9/11. This research examines five issues taken from the first volume of the Ms. Marvel comic book series. The paper discusses the reason why this series is substantial in the struggle of Muslim immigrants to survive as a minority group in the United States. The results show that Ms. Marvel serves as a medium of communication for the under-represented American Muslim community. Furthermore, by accepting the new superhero, the American society itself has also transformed and it is beginning to adapt to the idea that Muslim immigrants are members of their society.Keywords: Muslim, superhero, comic book, identity, popular culture

scholarly journals PELIYANAN TERHADAP PEREMPUAN DUNIA KETIGA PADA RUANG SEKSUAL DALAM NOVEL PLATEFORME KARYA MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ

LITERA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-470
Author(s):  
Kafana Fityah Kayla Taqiyya ◽  
Wening Udasmoro ◽  
Aprilia Firmonasari
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Story Content ◽  
Michel Houellebecq ◽  
French Novel ◽  
General Aspects ◽  
The Third World ◽  
First World

Peliyanan merupakan salah satu permasalahan yang kerap muncul di dalam sebuah novel. Pada novel Prancis berjudul Plateforme karya Michel Houellebecq, peliyanan tidak hanya terjadi di ruang publik seperti pada umumnya, namun juga pada ruang privat, yakni ruang seksual. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan dan membahas bentuk-bentuk peliyanan pada ruang seksual yang terjadi di dalam novel Plateforme sehingga memisahkan Dunia Pertama dengan Dunia Ketiga. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis isi cerita. Aspek-aspek isi cerita yang dilihat difokuskan pada aspek-aspek peliyanan yang terdapat di dalam novel. Cara koleksi data dilakukan dengan menyeleksi kata, kalimat dan paragraf yang memuat aspek peliyanan tersebut. Data dimasukkan di dalam tabel data yang berisi aspek peliyanan secara umum. Data pada tabel data pertama yang terkumpul selanjutnya diidentifikasi dan dikategorisasi sesuai dengan bentuk peliyanannya masing-masing. Data yang telah dikategorisasi tersebut kemudian dianalisis dengan didialogkan dengan konsep subaltern dari Gayatri C. Spivak. Analisis terhadap data menghasilkan temuan bahwa terjadi tiga bentuk peliyanan pada ruang seksual di dalam novel Plateforme. Tiga bentuk tersebut adalah pertama objektivikasi terhadap perempuan, kedua adalah pembungkaman suara perempuan dan ketiga adalah eksploitasi terhadap tubuh perempuan Dunia Ketiga. Kata Kunci: Peliyanan, Subaltern, Ruang Seksual, Pascakolonial THE OTHERING TO THIRD WORLD WOMWEN IN SEXUAL SPACE IN PLATEFORME NOVEL’S BY MICHEL HOUELLEBECQAbstractOne of the most issues addressed in a novel is othering. In a French novel titled Plateforme by Michel Houellebecq, othering is not only happening in the public space, but also in the very private space, the sexual or intimate space. This article attempts to describe and reveal the forms of othering in the sexual space of Plateforme that separates the First World from the Third World. This research uses the story content analysis as a method. The aspects of the stories are focussed on the othering process in the novel. The data are collected from the novel based on the wordings, sentences and paragraphes containing the othering aspects. The date are listed in the table that contains general aspects of othering process. The data collected are then categorized according to each form of othering. The categorized data are then analyzed using the subaltern theory of Gayatri C. Spivak. The result reveals three forms of othering in Plateforme. Those three forms of othering are objectification, silencing attempt through representation and the exploitation of Third World women’s body. Keywords: Othering, Subaltern, Sexual Space, Postcolonialism

scholarly journals إسهامات الروائي الباكستاني نسيم حجازي في إسلامية الأدب: رواية "التراب والدم" نموذجاً (Pakistani Novelist Naseem Hijazi's Contributions in Islamic Literature: Novel "The Dust and Blood" as a Case Study)

1970 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
محمد علي غوري (Mohamed Ali Ghuri)
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urdu Literature ◽  
The Great Migration ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Islamic Literature

ملخص البحث:كان الاتجاه الإسلامي في الأدب ثالث أهم الاتجاهات التي تجاذبت الأدب، وخاصة في مجال القصة والرواية. و كان جل كتاب القصة الأوائل ذوي نكهة إسلامية إصلاحية، ومن هؤلاء نذير أحمد وسرشار وعبد الحليم شرر الذي كان له تأثير كبير في أهم الروائيين الإسلاميين في باكستان، وهو نسيم حجازي الذي تميز كأستاذه بالروايات التاريخية. وهذا النوع من الروايات هو الذي ميز الروائيين الإسلاميين أكثر من أي نوع آخر من الروايات، ومع ذلك كتب نسيم حجازي روايات واقعية ذات مستوى عالمي، وِمن أهم هذه الروايات الواقعية روايته "خاك أور خون" ومعناها: التراب والدم. وهذه الرواية كغيرها من الروايات الباكستانية التي كتبت بعد قيام باكستان عام 1947م تناولت موضوع الهجرة الكبرى والمشاكل التي نجمت عنها، فكانت محاولة نسيم حجازي والآخرين لتذكير المسلمين بما فعله الهندوس والسيخ في رجالهم ونسائهم وأطفالهم وشيوخهم، لذا فإن هذه الرواية ممنوعة من التداول في الهند التي لا تفتؤ تحاول القضاء على كل ما له علاقة بالإسلام، وما جريمة هدم المسجد البابري عنا ببعيد! ويقال عن رواية التراب والدم إنها سيرة كاتبها الذاتية، حيث أودعها أفكاره وآراءه ومواقفه من القضايا المختلفة، وقد انطلق في كل ذلك من منطلق إسلامي واضح، فأحيا بها –أي بهذا الرواية- كثيراً من المعاني الإسلامية التي كادت تغيب عن الساحة الأدبية اليوم، فهي بحق رواية إسلامية عالمية تستحق الدراسة والتحليل.الكلمات المفتاحية: الأدب الإسلامي-الأدب الأردي-رواية "خاك أور خون-المحتوى-روائع الأدب الإسلامي. Abstract:The trend of Islamic literature in the third world is the most important trends studied literature, in the area of the story and the novel. Most of novelists in the past were those with an Islamic flavor reform, as Nazir Ahmad, Sarchar, and Abdul Halim Sharar, whom had a significant impact on the most important novelists of the Islamists in Pakistan Nasiim Hijazi, who characterized as his teacher about historical novels. This kind of novels is distinguished novelists Islamists more than any other type of novels. However, Nasiim Hijazi wrote realistic novels in international level, the most important of which is “Khac or Khun” (the dust and blood). This novel, like other novels of Pakistan, was written after the establishment of Pakistan in 1947 and deals with The Great Migration and the problems that caused it. It was an attempt from Nasiim Hijazi and others to remind Muslims what the Hindus and Sikhs did with the Muslims. This novel was banned from trading in India that was trying to eliminate everything has relation Islamic. The crime of destroying the Babri mosque is not far away from the event.  It is said that the novel is as  a biography of  the author, where he includes  his ideas, his views and viewpoints from various issues, where his assumption was from an Islamic perspective, to  revive - through this novel - a lot of Islamic meanings which  are almost absent from the literary study nowadays . It is truly a global Islamic novel.ListenRead phonetically.Keywords: Islamic Literature- Urdu Literature- Novel "Khak Oor Khoon"- Contents- The Beauty of Islamic Literature. Abstrak: Pendekatan islam merupakan pendekatan ketiga yang penting yang paling mendapat perhatian dalam bidang sastera terutamanya dalam bidang penulisan cerita dan novel. Kebanyakan novel-novel yang terawal telah mendapat nafas baru menerusi pendekatan islam seperti yang yang telah dihasilkan oleh Nazir Ahmad Srchar, Abdul Halim Sharar yang telah memberi kesan yang mendalam kepada penulis-penulis yang beragama islam di Pakistan terutamanya Nasim Hijazi yang terkenal dengan penghasilan novel-novel sejarah. Genre novel berunsurkan sejarah islam Hal ini telah menaikkan nama penulis-penulis islam berbanding genre yang lain. Oleh itu, kebanyakan karya yang dihasilkan oleh Nasim Hijazi merupakan karya yang realistik bertaraf dunia terutamanya novel “Khac Orr Khan” yang bermaksud “Tanah dan Darah”. Novel ini sama seperti novel-novel lain di Pakistan yang menceritakan tentang kisah penghijrahan secara besar-besaran dan faktor-faktornya selepas penubuhan Pakistan pada tahun 1947. Penghasilan novel bergenre sejarah ini adalah satu usaha dari Nasim Hijazi dan seangkatan dengan beliau untuk mengingatkan orang islam tentang apa yang telah dilakukan oleh orang Hindu dan Sikh kepada rakyat Pakistan. Oleh yang demikian, novel ini telah diharamkan oleh kerjaan India daripada diterbitkan malah cuba menghapuskan apa-apa yang berkaitan dengan islam termasuklah merobohkan Masjid Babri. Justeru, novel “Tanan dan Darah” merupakan pengalaman penulis sendiri yang mana beliau telah melontarkan buah fikiran, pendapat dan pendirian beliau terhadap isu-isu yang berbeza dari sudut persepektif islam yang sebenar. Novel ini banyak mengetengahkan nilai-nilai islam yang sudah hampir dilupakan dalam bidang kesusateraan hari ini dan novel islam global ini layak dikaji dan dianalisa.Kata kunci: Sastera Islam – Sastera Urdu – Karya “Khak Oor Khoon” – Isi kandungan – Keindahan Sastera Islam.  

The Third World and the United States

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Ewing
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Third World ◽  
International System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western World ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Third World

The concept of the Third World emerged after 1945 as a way to refer to the developing regions of the world, most often encompassing Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. As a descriptive shorthand, the Third World entered common usage to contrast these regions from the capitalist “First World” and the communist “Second World,” even though some nations in these regions overtly aligned with one of the superpowers while others did not ascribe to such classifications. The term thus defies easy categorization and was used by historical actors to reflect different political and economic understandings of their geopolitical status. In the latter half of the 20th century, the Third World also gained purchase among some political leaders to describe non-Western, anti-imperialist, and anti-racist nations that had gained their independence from colonial rule and worked together to resist Cold War alignment. However, Third World leaders struggled to sustain their transnational solidarity, sometimes dividing along the lines of the broader superpower rivalry, regional or sectarian conflicts, and differing aspirations for world order. US relations with the Third World were often fraught and complex. The United States did not maintain a single policy toward the Third World as such, reflective of its enormous diversity in language, culture, and politics. Instead, the United States devised foreign policies toward Third World nations according to different perceived imperatives and interests. A major theme in the history of US relations with the Third World was the US government’s overarching effort after World War II to undermine the spread of international communism, against which it deployed a wide range of military, political, social, and economic tools. In kind, Third World political leaders often strove to evade direct control by the United States and entered into diplomatic relations cognizant of the power asymmetries at work in the international system. In the 21st century, scholars and policymakers continue to use the Third World term, though it is often used interchangeably with the Global South and the underdeveloped, developing, and non-Western world.

Waiting and the Legacy of Apartheid

Matatu ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Remi Akujobi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
The Third ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Third World

With debates about the issues of liberation, centering, and empowerment dominating the African literary landscape, particularly in works written by women, it is not surprising to find that the issue of ‘waiting’ occupies centre stage in Njabulo Ndebele’s novel The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003). Much, of course, has been written on this work, which focuses on the peculiar problems facing women in contemporary South Africa, but the object of this essay is to examine the theme of waiting as it is made manifest in the literary production of the Third-World level of South African life under apartheid. The background to this literature is infiltration, colonialism, and exploitation in the lives of simple people struggling for survival and meaning in a harsh world. Through complex negotiations, women are attempting to come to terms with their increasingly visible role as breadwinners in the absence of their menfolk. This produces unexpected reconfigurations, personal and familial. One question addressed is whether these reconfigurations represent a crisis in the relations of social reproduction or a transition to new forms of family life. The novel is characterized by elements of the fantastic and mythical woven into a deceptively simple story that scrutinizes society at its base in a state of post-apartheid hangover.

scholarly journals Noces sacrées de Seydou Badian: quand le roman traduit la décolonialité

Cahiers ERTA ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 27-41
Author(s):  
Yao Kobenan
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
The Novel ◽  
African Continent ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
The Third World

Sacred weddings of Seydou Badian: when the novel translates decoloniality In the name of a certain theory of race inferiority, the imperialist powers have instituted the slave trade which will annihilate the countries of the Third World, and mainly those of the African continent. They will impose their vision of the world through the universalization of a Cartesian philosophy which has considerably encroached on the local histories of subordinate peoples. Even today, categories of people continue to suffer from the depreciative stereotypes constructed by the settler. For African novelists, the historical truth must be recognized. They therefore write with the aim of restoring the authentic values of these peoples. It is in this perspective that Seydou Badian inscribes his work entitled Sacred Weddings where he magnifies an African tradition which only asks to be recognized as an absolute and autonomous value, through a decolonial writing.

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