scholarly journals Way of the Warrior: Battling Issues of Interlok with the Sword of Wisdom

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-230
Author(s):  
Lalita Sinha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
The Novel

Abdullah Hussain’s novel, Interlok, has been the source of discussion and conflict among various factions in the multi-ethnic and multi- religious community of Malaysia. As an alternative to some of the current negative impressions of the book, and accusations directed at the author, this essay presents a view of the novel and of the author’s motivations. It draws on two elements, evidences from the text itself, and an inward level or esoteric interpretation of the text. From an approach of Hindu religious and spiritual doctrines, and universal metaphysical truths from a Traditionalist perspective, it concludes that a fair and unbiased textual analysis which foregrounds Truth allows a genuine reader to understand what the author actually wrote, and to see beyond the conflict and accusations. Keywords: Hindu esoterism, discernment, Traditionalist perspective, human integration

scholarly journals A Stylistic Investigation of the Act of Murder in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ujjal Jeet ◽  
Keyword(s):  
White Woman ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
White Community ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
Theoretical System ◽  
Nature And Nurture

This paper is a functional stylistic study of a selected passage from Doris Lessing’s novel The Grass is Singing. In the novel The Grass is Singing, a white woman in Rhodesia is killed by her black servant but surprisingly the murder instead of bringing a stir spreads a silence in the local white community. Further, the text on an intuitive reading seems to absolve the murderer of the crime which forms the research question of the paper. Thus, close and systematic textual analysis of the text representing the murder scene was conducted and it was found that the linguistic choices of the text does create a semantic universe where the murder and the murdered are allegorical figures representing nature and nurture in a mutual conflict. The methodology for linguistic analysis of the selected text is borrowed from Michael Halliday’s theoretical system Systemic Functional Linguistics. The text is analysed by means of transitivity system which provides the investigative tools to study the representational choices of the text.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF LIBERAL FEMINISM IN THE NOTEBOOK NOVEL (1996) BY NICHOLAS SPARKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Pande Made Gunawati ◽  
Dewa Komang Tantra ◽  
Putu Adi Krisna Juniarta
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Liberal Feminism

In The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, Allison Nelson was characterized as an inspiring woman who fought for her dreams. Meanwhile, Noah Calhoun was described as a loving man that respected Allison as a woman. This novel contained traits of rich liberal feminism. The purpose of the present research was to find out the traits of Noah Calhoun and Allison Nelson as the main characters that represented liberal feminism in the novel. The method of this research was textual analysis to analyze the traits. Data collection was linguistics unit corpora recorded in written forms. The finding of this research can be stated that Noah Calhoun and Allison Nelson were categorized as liberal feminists. Their traits were a combination of positive feminine and masculine traits. The traits of the main characters as liberal feminists were appreciative, forceful, strong, devoted, firm, sensitive, confident, patient, carefree, responsible, and independent.

scholarly journals Achiever of Higher Self: A Humanistic Study of Celie’s Character in the Novel, Color Purple

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 373
Author(s):  
Qurratulain Sardar ◽  
Rafique A. Memon
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Alice Walker ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Hierarchy Model ◽  
Humanistic Study ◽  
The One ◽  
Color Purple

A. Maslow in his book Motivation and Personality (1954) presents the five-stage hierarchy Model, emphasizes on the fulfilment of needs to achieving higher self. Based on textual analysis, the study demonstrates how the protagonist Celie, from the novel Color Purple written by Alice Walker, follows the gratification of needs in edict to connect the higher self. The evolution of character’s personality has been appraised thoroughly at each level, gives an equal attentive of new visions into her conduct and relationships with other characters. The Colloquial African-American dialect of the text is taken metaphorically, formulates the scarcity of needs created by external milieu. It is inimitably distinguished to identify the one of the major forces after her unusual, capricious and incoherent behaviors are usual social human drives.

scholarly journals Silent Struggles: Women in Salma’s The Hour Past Midnight

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
Dr. Shayequa Tanzeel
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Culture Tradition

The paper intends to analyse the heroic lives of Muslim women, who are oppressed in the name of culture, tradition, and religion through a textual analysis of the novel The Hour Past Midnight, written by the Tamil writer Salma and translated by Lakshmi Holmstrom. The paper explores the struggles faced by the hero(in)es in the novel. Originally written in Tamil, and entitled Irandaam Jaamathin Kadhai, the novel depicts the challenging lives of Muslim women living in a cloistered space. The novel narrates the incidents in the lives of Rabia, her mother Zohra; Rahima, Wahida, Firdaus, Mumtaz, Farida and some other women of the neighbourhood. All of them are victims of the misogynist and patriarchal mind-set of their community. Some of these women stay silent, and endure every kind of pain and suffering with extreme patience and resilience. Others choose to defy the norms which are set for them and live on their terms. They stand up for their individuality, rights, and dignity. Each of these women, nonetheless, demonstrates heroic courage, fortitude, resilience, and resistance. By facing the predicament of their lives boldly, and by challenging the patriarchal institutions, these characters demonstrate that each of them is an individual full of potential.

scholarly journals Lyotardian Language Games: A Postmodernist Critique of Our Lady of Alice Bhatti

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (IV) ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Ayesha Ashraf Awan ◽  
Munawar Iqbal Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Language Games ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Master Narratives

This research seeks to analyze Our Lady of Alice Bhatti in the light of Lyotardian language games. The novel is written by Muhammad Hanif who is arenowned Pakistani novelist and writer. The novel, through language games, subverts the master narratives of nation, science, justice, culture, and faith. This research explores the role of language to interpret, understand and communicate in the postmodern world as in todays world every idea exists in the form of signs or language. This reading explores the novel through textual analysis, and it is qualitative and exploratory. It ends with the findings and recommendations for further research.

scholarly journals Women’s Political Status: Female Difference and Public Involvement in Diamela Eltit’s Fuerzas especiales

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-110
Author(s):  
Denisse Lazo-González ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
State Repression ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Political Status ◽  
The Way

This article analyzes Fuerzas especiales’ representation of women’s political status and public involvement. From a close reading of the protagonist-narrator’s role as the breadwinner of her family and drawing insights from feminist political theory, this work conducts a theoretically-informed textual analysis of the novels’ view of female public involvement at work in a context of state repression. It aims to unveil the way in which the novel engages critically with the ambiguities of a model of women’s political participation based on female difference and the politics of motherhood.

THE SPASE OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CREATIVE HISTORY OF M.A. BULGAKOV’S NOVEL THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Kolysheva
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Library ◽  
The Master And Margarita ◽  
Master And Margarita

This article is devoted to the development of the space of light and darkness in M.A. Bulgakov’s novel «The Master and Margarita». The author explores the different stages and artistic devices of Bulgakov’s work on these images in the context of the creative history of the novel. The article, based on an extensive archival research in the Manuscript Collection of Russian State Library, follows the development of the space of light and darkness through a textual analysis of the whole corpus of manuscripts of this novel

Pemanfaatan Al-Qur’an dan Hadith Dalam Novel Ketika Cinta Bertasbih Karya Habiburrahman El-Shirazy

Sains Insani ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-54
Author(s):  
Mohd Adi Amzar Muhammad Nawawi
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Important Principle ◽  
Islamic Literature

Ketika Cinta Bertasbih’s novel that’s wrote by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy is a leading Islamic pop novel in Indonesia and also received very encouraging enthusiasts in Malaysia. This is caused by the morality practice and responsibility values those applied by author when it produces the novel by focusing on the utilization of the Qur'an and Hadith as an important principle to the formation of Islamic tasawur. Indeed, this paper aims to study and analyze the utilization of the Qur'an and Hadith conducted by the author of the novel Ketika Cinta Bertasbih. This study used their forms by applying content analysis approach and used analysis of documents as data collection and textual analysis as analyzing textual method. The results of this study have shown Habiburrahman as the author of this novel has been utilizing the highest sources of Islam ie the Qur'an and Hadith through the utilization of fiction and maintain the sanctity of the nature both of the highest sources.Keywords: Islamic literature, Ketika Cinta Bertasbih, expansion, Habiburrahman El-Shirazy Abstrak: Novel Ketika Cinta Bertasbih karya Habiburrahman El-Shirazy merupakan novel pop Islami yang terkemuka di Indonesia dan juga mendapat sambutan yang amat menggalakkan daripada peminat-peminat di Malaysia. Hal ini disebabkan oleh pengamalan moraliti dan nilai-nilai ketanggung jawaban yang diaplikasikan oleh pengkarya ketika menghasilkan novel ini dengan menitik beratkan pemanfaatan Al-Qur’an dan Hadith sebagai asas penting kepada pembentukan tasawur Islami yang syumul. Justeru, makalah ini bertujuan untuk merungkai dan menganalisis pemanfaatan Al-Qur’an dan Hadith yang dilakukan oleh pengarang dalam novel Ketika Cinta Bertasbih. Kajian ini menggunakan reka bentuk analisis kandungan dengan mengaplikasikan pendekatan analisis dokumen sebagai kaedah pengumpulan data dan analisis tekstual sebagai kaedah penganalisisan data. Hasil kajian ini telah memperlihatkan Habiburrahman selaku pengarang novel ini telah memanfaatkan sumber tertinggi Islam iaitu Al-Qur’an dan Hadith melalui pemanfaatan rangka fiksyen yang berhemah dan menjaga hakikat kesucian kedua-dua sumber tertinggi tersebut.Kata Kunci: sastera Islam, Ketika Cinta Bertasbih, pemanfaatan, Habiburrahman El-Shirazy

scholarly journals Descriptive and Normative Norms in Film Adaptation: The Hays Office and the American Film Noir

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 167-188
Author(s):  
Patrick Cattrysse
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Film Noir ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Film ◽  
Written Text

The study of the normative and descriptive rules of adaptation in the American film noir replaces the usual textual analysis with an intersystemic analysis of the process of adaptation. Avoiding in this way an evaluation of the accuracy of the film with respect to the novel makes it possible to examine how certain social norms and certain narrative models will determine the passage from the written text to the screen.

scholarly journals Unveiling Women Marginalization in Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
Saira Siraj ◽  
Muhammad Tahir Anjum ◽  
Abdus Samad
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
The West ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
The Status ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Status Of Women ◽  
Better Than

The present study pursues the primaeval customs of patriarchy and its tormenting effects happening in the lives of women in Pakistan. The purpose of this research is to explore how patriarchal traditions, class differences, and their triple marginalization in the novel played chaos in the lives of females. Though the existing status of women is traditionally much better than that of women in the West but still they are not empowered and are deprived of basic rights. GC Spivak provides the theoretical foundations for this research through her theory, can the subaltern speak (1988). This research is based on qualitative textual analysis. The present study explores the status of women in Pakistan through the characterization of various female characters in the novel. This study concludes that they are portrayed as compliant and deserted beings deprived of every kind of individualism.

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