scholarly journals National Identity and the Quest of Ethnic Authorship in Sarawak

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-90
Author(s):  
Awang Azman Awang Pawi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
National Language ◽  
National Literature ◽  
National Perspective

This article discusses aspects of identity building in the national literature of Sarawak. The author argues that the presence of a variety of authors in Sarawak is quite unique in expressing the ethnic diversity of Sarawak. This is because some of the ethnic writers include local colour in their writings. The situation is different in Peninsular Malaysia; although there are various ethnic groups such as Javanese, Banjar Bugis, Malaysian aborigines and Minang, there is little foregrounding of this in their writings, unlike what can be found in Sarawak. The ethnic diversity in Sarawak brings with it a number of ethnic issues, while at the same time representing problems that exist within these ethnic societies. The use of the national language in the works produced in Sarawak provides a national perspective without neglecting local issues that authors attempt to deal with. Authorship, theme and thinking, as well as the authors’ attitudes in the works are also discussed in order to look at the dimension of national authorship in the context of local knowledge. Keywords: national identity, ethnicity, authorship, national literature

scholarly journals SASTERA NASIONAL: ANTARA SASTERA INGGERIS DAN SASTERA MELAYU[NATIONAL LITERATURE: BETWEEN THE ENGLISH LITERATURE AND MALAY LITERATURE]

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Hashim Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
National Identity ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Comparative Methods ◽  
National Language ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Global Language

Malay literature is hoped to unite the multi-racial Malaysian through the use of Malay Language which is the national language of the country. However, the recognition of Malay literature as national literature is not free from criticsm. This national identity began to be contested with the arrival of postmodernism. This qualitative research employed descriptive and comparative methods to provide insights into the importance of having national literature that is written in Malay language. This paper also discusses whether literature written in English should be recognized as the national literature since the language emerges as the global language used by people from different backgrounds. The main data sources are the views of two national poets -Muhmamad Haji Salleh and Wong Phui Nam - which were critically compared and synthesized. This paper concludes that Malay literature should remain as national literature whilst literature written in other languages should be allowed to flourish in their own unique ways. Keywords: National literature, Malaysian literature, sectional literature, Malay literature, contemporary Malay literatureCite as: Ismail, H. (2017). Sastera nasional: Antara sastera Inggeris dan sastera Melayu [National literature: Between the English literature and Malay literature]. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 2(2), 178-187. AbstrakSastera Melayu sebagai sastera yang menyatukan semua kaum sama ada kaum bumiputera atau bukan bumiputera adalah sudah jelas, namun pandangan untuk mencabar kedudukan sastera Melayu sebagai sastera kebangsaan sentiasa muncul dalam bentuk polemik. Setelah globalisasi menjadi satu bentuk perubahan pemikiran pascamoden, persoalan berteraskan satu kaum dipertikaikan atau mula disemak kembali. Kajian kualitatif ini menggunakan kaedah deskripsi dan perbandingan untuk membincangkan kepentingan penggunaan Bahasa Melayu dalam sastera kebangsaan.  Kajian ini juga membincangkan sama ada kita wajar menerima sastera berbahasa Inggeris yang dipandang oleh setengah pihak sebagai bahasa penyatuan baharu dunia sastera. Sumber data utama adalah hujah-hujah yang dilontarkan oleh dua orang ahli sastera negara iaitu Muhmamad Haji Salleh dan Wong Phui Nam. Kajian ini menegaskan bahawa Sastera Melayu perlu kekal sebagai sastera kebangsaan manakalan sastera bukan berbahasa Melayu boleh berkembang dengan sendirinya mengikut acuan masing-masing.Kata Kunci: Sastera kebangsaan, sastera Malaysia, sastera etnik, sastera Melayu, sastera Melayu mutakhir

Locating Translation: On the Question of Japanophone Literature

PMLA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 126 (3) ◽  
pp. 701-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis Workman
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
National Language ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Francophone Studies ◽  
The West ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language And Literature

Adding-Phone to the name of a National Language Entails an Expansion of Geographic and Historical Perspective. This expansion of perspective in the national-literature departments of the West was initially made possible by decolonization and the collapse of the European empires, when scholars in francophone studies and anglophone studies rethought the relation between language and culture in the postcolonial moment. While the move to -phone studies brings with it some potential to reinstate the national-literature paradigm in a different form, it can just as easily mean a departure into questions of transnationalism, transcoloniality, translation, and old and new creolizations. To study literature in terms of -phone is to assume no longer that language and literature follow the tidy dictates of national sovereignty, national identity, and realpolitik, as these were articulated during the age of high imperialism.

Governing ethnic diversity in rainbow nations

Focaal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (44) ◽  
pp. 89-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Giordano
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Specific Model ◽  
Peninsular Malaysia ◽  
Complex Situation ◽  
Plural Society ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Western European ◽  
Set Up

The present article analyzes how, after its independence in 1957, Malaysia has been able to manage the difficult coexistence among its three numerically most relevant ethnic groups (Malay, Chinese and Indian). This complex situation, a legacy of the British colonial-like plural society, has been governed via a specific model of multi-racial citizenship, which is significantly unlike the Western European ones in which, as a rule, the equivalence between nationality and citizenship predominates. Starting from the specific example of Penang in Peninsular Malaysia, the article intends to highlight two points. Firstly, that citizenship must be perceived as an agonistic process with competition, tensions and conflicts as well as permanent negotiations. Secondly, that the Occidental agenda, based on liberal principles, can no longer be regarded as the only valid one. Therefore, believing that the Western type of citizenship could be a universalistic institution exportable anywhere is misleading. Consequently, citizenship ought to be analyzed instead as a 'concrete abstraction' that is set up in strict correlation with the specific historical contexts and with particular circumstances of a sociological nature, relative to the characteristics of each society.

ANALISIS DASAR HUKUM BAHASA INDONESIA SEBAGAI BAHASA NASIONAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Neneng Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
National Development ◽  
National Language ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Language ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

This article was written to describe the legal analysis of the Indonesian language as a national language. Indonesian is the language of unity, national language, and national language. The Youth Pledge of the Indonesian Youth Congress on October 28, 1928 was a crystallization of Indonesian nationalism. Indonesian as one of the contents of the youth oath plays an important role for Indonesian nationalism. Indonesian language is a flourishing nationalism in our society that inhabits thousands of islands in the archipelago with various ethnic groups and languages. The language of an area is motivated by different socio-cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Based on this, language will not hamper communication between regions and between cultures, because of the national language or language to avoid misunderstanding with each other due to differences in socio-cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Language as a National language, Indonesian is a dynamic language along with the dynamics of community progress as a result of national development. In order that Indonesian language is used is always good and right, we as speakers of language are required to always be open and dynamic following the development of Indonesian. As an effort to foster Indonesian language, the community must always be positive about Indonesian and Indonesian. Fostering Indonesian language also fosters national nationalism because Indonesian is the national identity of the Indonesian people.

Specificity of Value Orientations of Native Speakers of French and Russian and Their Representation in Proverbs (Based on Dictionaries)

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Nataliya Yu. Nelyubova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Quantitative Composition ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Common Features ◽  
French Culture ◽  
Subjective Factor

This paper presents a linguo-axiological analysis of French and Russian proverbs based on identifying value orientations and creating their hierarchy by studying the names and quantitative dominance of various thematic groups in authentic paroemiological dictionaries. Identification of value orientations allows us to reveal both common features of ethnic groups, which are of interest in the era of globalization and mutual influence of languages and cultures, and specific ones, contributing to the preservation of national identity. The novelty of this research compared to the author’s previous studies lies in the use of two additional lexicographic sources (one French and one Russian). The examined material of the four dictionaries includes more than 30,000 proverbial units. The analysis revealed the presence of a large number of common topics (which can occupy different positions in the value hierarchy of the ethnic groups under study) not only in dictionaries of the same language, but in all four sources. The names of the categories and their quantitative composition allow us to define French culture as individualist, while Russian culture, as collectivist. When constructing a hierarchy, it is important to turn to a larger number of dictionaries and identify common proverbial units in them to avoid the influence of the subjective factor, which is the case when naming and forming categories, as well as of the researcher’s individual approach to the proportion of category names to their corresponding values. The expanding vocabulary and studies on evaluativity in proverbs aiming to identify value and anti-value components within various topics can be used for further research.

Introduction to the Tirap Area

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meenaxi Barkataki-Ruscheweyh
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Final Section ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
National Socialist

The second chapter is a general introduction, both geographical as well as historical, to the ‘Tirap’ area where the Tangsa live in Assam. It also contains a description of the ethnic diversity of the area, where tribal groups such as the Tangsa, the Singpho, the Sema Naga and the Tai Phake live together with other communities such as the Nepali, the Ahoms and the Tea-tribes; Also discussed are the problems that the older tribal groups face as a result of the large number of new settlers coming to the area, the consequent gradual polarisation that is taking place there, and the state’s reaction to the prevailing situation, which finds expression in two events—first in the organization of the annual state-sponsored multi-ethnic Dihing-Patkai Festival in that area and secondly in the recent formation of a Development Council for eight ethnic groups (including the Tangsa). The coming of Baptist Christianity amongst the Tangsa and a brief summary of militant activities of the two insurgent organizations, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) and the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), active in the region, are also discussed. The final section introduces the problems that arise due to the Assamese hegemonic attitudes towards the smaller ethnic groups living in Assam.

Problems of preserving the norms of Adyge khabz in the context of globalization (based on the materials of a sociological study)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-93
Author(s):  
Z.Kh. Guchetl ◽  
◽  
O.I. Kuskarova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Ethical Codes ◽  
The North

In this article, the authors comprehend the moral and ethical phenomenon of "Adyge habz the problems of its preservation and development in modern society in the context of globalization. The study of traditions is undoubtedly relevant in modern conditions, when many ethnic groups persistently retain interest in past values, their origins and prospects. The authors note that this problem is relevant not only for the Adygs, but also for other peoples of the North Caucasus, which have their own analogues of national moral and ethical codes. Based on the results of the conducted sociological research, it is concluded that the role of Adyghism (adygag) in the system of traditional ethno-cultural values of the Adyghes has decreased, and therefore there is a need to revive and develop the national identity of the Adyghes.

scholarly journals Will Saudi's 2030 Vision Raise the Students’ Awareness to National Literature? Saudi Literature and Identity

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
Mubarak Altwaiji ◽  
Majed Alenezi ◽  
Sajeena Gayathrri ◽  
Ebrahim Mohammed Alwuraafi ◽  
Maryam Naif Alanazi
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Modern Identity

Forming national identity is placed on top of the seven aspects of High-Impact Educational Practices (HIEPs) in Northern Border University. Similarly, the concept of academic awareness to national literature has been one of the main challenges to national literature in the Middle East. Just as the strong presence of national identity in Saudi’s 2030 vision has initiated re-evaluations of how national identity is shaped, Saudi novel has similar concerns that inform social constructs of national identity through overarching themes and comprehensive representations of cultural issues. This study investigates the ways in which two Saudi novelists interrogate the intertwined issues shared by 2030 vision and national novel which address the archetypal Saudi identity: first, that the construction of modern identity requires much cultural openness with the world; second, that construction of Saudi identity needs exclusion of otherness; and third, that national identity depends on the rich history of two historical regions – Najd and Hijaz - that binds identity to a unified territory. The study focuses on how these novels give visibility to issues that are at the core of 2030 vision’s social and cultural aspect such as life style, appearance behaviours, attitudes, accepting differences and willingness to work and volunteer. Drawing on this narrative analysis, the study advocates for the utility of introducing national novel for undergraduate students to help them perceive identity as a position and support their identity enactment.

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