scholarly journals An analysis of the writings of female short story writers of Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-46
Author(s):  
Rahat Afshan
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Urdu Literature ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
The Way

The age of Short Stories in Urdu may be shorter than other branches of Urdu literature, but even though of its short-lived life, but the success and accomplishments of short stories is unlike any other form of the Urdu Literature. There is no doubt in the fact that Urdu Short Stories may have a root from English Literature, but our Writers of the short stories included the country and society and hence the true identity of the short stories came up to the surface. The way the female writers of Urdu Short Stories highlighted the new topics with new techniques is beyond compare and deserves appraise. They have presented their feelings and emotions in a way unique and new manner, which highlights the reference of their specific thinking, and they presented it in a highly spontaneous manner. Through their Short Stories, they have highlighted the presence of Women, their Value, their mental and emotional complexities, their needs and their silences are voiced. The women writers not only through their abilities to discover wrote about the political and societal difficulties, rights and equalities, women issues and against the cultural mindsets, but also through their works, they highlighted the time to time changing aspects of life. We are rightful to say this that the women taking part in the success and development of the Short Stories in Urdu Literature. Looking at their thoughts, it is not difficult to say that in the upcoming times, the women short story writers and their new and unique thoughts will account for the success of this branch of Urdu Literature.

scholarly journals INTERPERSONAL MEANING IN THE SHORT STORIES OF WILLEM ISKANDER’S SI BULUS-BULUS SI RUMBUK-RUMBUK

LINGUISTICA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
ULFA YOZA SALSABILA ◽  
ELIA MASA GINTING ◽  
WILLEM SARAGIH
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

This study aimed to analyze the mood and modality used in the short stories of Willem Iskander’s Si Bulus-Bulus Si Rumbuk-Rumbuk, elaborating and explaining the interpersonal meaning realized in each short story. The source of data was taken from a book authored by Willem Iskander, entitled “Si Bulus- Bulus Si Rumbuk-Rumbuk”. This research showed that : (1) there were 157 clauses in the short stories with three mood types and two degrees of modality. (2) interpersonal meaning is realized based on the order of the subject and the finite. (3) the reason why the interpersonal meaning is realized in the way they are is that the author wants to share his thoughts and experiences of Mandailingnese by classifying each clause and finding the dominant use of declarative mood as the most direct and soft way of conveying the author’s thought

scholarly journals Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women

1970 ◽  
pp. 100-101
Author(s):  
Tania Tabbara
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Palestinian Women ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Mixed Feelings ◽  
Female Writers

I’ve always had mixed feelings concerning anthologies on women writers. It seems to me that classifying writers by their nationality and their gender does not really do justice to the creative originality of their stories. By classifying them in that way the stories are somehow assumed to reflect a certain social and political reality, which might not at all be intended by the writers.Especially regarding female writers from the Middle East, one expects to find stories that reflect upon the suppression of women in a patriarchal society that is determined by Islamic culture. Palestinian women writers have to fight this cliché as much as the expectation that their writing is (merely) informed by their status as refugees or occupied people (which of course might be the case but not necessarily so, or maybe only partially so).

Culture, detention and exile

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Jorge Musto
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
The Way

Among the exodus of Uruguayan artists and intellectuals described by Hortensia Campanella (p 29) is Jorge Musto. whose short story ‘Pale Browns and Yellows’ we published in Index on Censorship 2/1981. As actor, theatre director and journalist, Jorge Musto was associated with the two best-known standard bearers of the rich cultural movement which blossomed in Uruguay before the 1973 military coup: the El Galpón theatre company (Index on Censorship 2/1977 and 2/1979) and the weekly magazine Marcha (4/1974 and 2/1979). He has published several novels and short stories, and now works as a translator in Paris, having fallen victim in 1972 to the repression which paved the way for the final military takeover. It was in Paris that the following interview was carried out in February 1981 by Index on Censorship's Latin America researcher. Our apologies for having held it over for so long, for reasons entirely of space. The interview is translated from Spanish.

scholarly journals A CONDIÇÃO FEMININA EM MORNAS ERAM AS NOITES, DE DINA SALÚSTIO

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Demétrio Alves Paz ◽  
Mithiele Da Silva Scarton
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
African Literature ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
First Person ◽  
Cape Verdean ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Broad View

O presente trabalho, relacionado ao estudo desenvolvido pelo projeto de pesquisa intitulado Mulheres fortes: O conto africano de língua portuguesa de autoria feminina (PROBIC/FAPERGS), tem por objetivo analisar a condição feminina presente em nove contos da obra Mornas eram as noites, de autoria da escritora cabo-verdiana Dina Salústio. A partir da leitura de obras críticas de especialistas nas literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa, como Maria Aparecida Santilli (2007), Manuel Ferreira (1987), Pires Laranjeira (1995) e Simone Caputo Gomes (2006; 2013), assim como em artigos publicados em revistas acadêmicas, revisamos a fortuna crítica da autora com o intuito de conhecer seus temas. Nas nove narrativas, observamos que há figuras femininas diferenciadas, representando um amplo apanhado de todas as classes sociais e de diferentes idades. A grande maioria das histórias é narrada em primeira pessoa, o que aproxima o leitor da condição feminina e também funciona como uma espécie de pedido de cumplicidade por parte das narradoras para sentir-se parte desse emaranhado de sentimentos e situações em que elas se encontram.Palavras-chave: Literatura de autoria feminina. Conto. Literatura cabo-verdiana. Dina Salústio. Condição feminina.ABSTRACTThis article, related to the study developed in the research project Strong Women: African short stories written by women writers (PROBIC/FAPERGS), aims to to analyze the women’s condition in 9 (nine) short stories in Warm were the nights, by the Cape Verdean writer Dina Salústio. From the reading of critical works by scholars of African Literature in Portuguese Language such as Maria Aparecida Santilli (2007), Manuel Ferreira (1987), Pires Laranjeira (1995) e Simone Caputo Gomes (2006, 2013), as well as articles in academic journals, we revised the critical works about the author to get a better knowledge of her themes. In the nine narratives, we noted that there are differentiated feminine figures, representing a broad view of all social classes and different ages. The majority of stories were narrated in the first person, which connect the reader to the women’s condition as well as it works as a kind of asking for partnership by the narrators to feel part of this connection of feelings and situations in which the characters are involved. Keywords: Women’s writing. Short story. Cape Verdean Literature. Dina Salústio. Women’s condition.

scholarly journals Social Themes in Saudi Women Short Stories: Making the voice of Women Heard

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulrahman Mokbel Mahyoub Hezam
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Saudi Women ◽  
Arabic Speakers ◽  
The Social

Few studies in English have been carried out to explore the realm of Saudi short stories in general and women writers' works in particular. The aim of this paper is to examine how Saudi women short story writers used a western literary form to depict the realities of their country. It also delineates the magnificent representation of social themes through storytelling and provides non-Arabic speakers with an insight into the writings of Saudi female writers. It tries to present a vivid picture of how these stories reflect the social reality in Saudi Arabia in the last few decades of the 20th century and the challenges facing women in this transitional period. Moreover, the study tries to examine how women writers participated in the contentious debates regarding women that dominated the Saudi society especially on questions like marriage, divorce and women education. The present study is basically a text-based research that involves an analysis of major primary sources chosen. Selected short stories written by Saudi women writers are examined from a thematic perspective to reveal the ways in which women writers incited social change by defining notions of gender and social space and how they give voice to the Saudi women.

scholarly journals Grotesque in The Vey Short stories of Palestinian Female Writers

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
Samah Khoury
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
The Grotesque

This research aims to study the application of the Grotesque technique on the characters of the very short story written by Palestinian female writers. The study includes three examples of very short stories by Palestinian female writers from different sectors: Israel, West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the diaspora. It attempts to find the connection between the grotesque reality that emerged after the war in 1948 and its effects and changes in society, politics and economics. Therefore, we will monitor the topics written by Palestinian female writers in the very short story because of the preferences that this genre achieves that do not exist in other literary genres such as reduction, brevity, intensification. We reveal the extent to which the Grotesque technique is used to express marginalized feminist issues, and to find similarities and differences between stories in the application of the Grotesque technique on the characters. We found That the Grotesque technique used in the stories to distort the contours of the characters. The characters do not behave as normal but are somewhat willful, and act as a mechanism. The character of the woman is absent and invisible and her voice is inaudible. Women's personality in various situations is a negative recipient.

scholarly journals کلیم خارجی کے افسانوی مجموعے"گھٹیا آدمی" کا تجزیاتی مطالعہ

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Awais Qarni
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urdu Literature

Kaleem Khariji is a prominent figure of short stories in contemporary Urdu literature. He has evaded from the symbolical style and technique, which is a literary fashion amongst the contemporary Urdu short stories writers. The formation of his short stories is totally different from classical short story writers as well. He does not use symbols, but his characters are capable of symbolical depth. Ghatiya Aadmi—a book comprised of his short stories—has a philosophical and social background. The themes and subject matter of the stories in this book are derived from the social and political circumstances of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The researcher has critically analyzed the characters and subject matter in the short stories of Ghatiya Aadmi.

scholarly journals ASOSIASI WACANA “ALUN-ALUN SERIBU PATUNG” DENGAN SITUASI POLITIK KEBANGSAAN DI INDONESIA PADA MASA DAN PASCAREFORMASI

Aksara ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Natal P. Sitanggang
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Advanced Technique ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Pragmatic Analysis ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
Linguistic Approaches

From a linguistic point of view, short stories are classified into the type of discourse. Therefore, the tracing of everything on the authors’ intentions can be done through linguistic approaches, among them through discourse and pragmatic analysis approaches. Furthermore, since short stories also classified as works of art (literature), so a semiotic approach can be relevant to support the approaches of discourse and pragmatics analysis. The data in this study comes from the text of a short story titled “Alun-Alun Seribu Patung” by Danarto.  The data was obtained by using observation method through recording technique as a basic technique and note-taking technique as an advanced technique.   Through text deconstruction, at least there are 16 derivative text constructions selected as the data which reflect the association of  the short story with the political reality at the reformation and post-reformation periods (1998—2006). The description of data becomes the clues that actually the author pragmatically did a number of actions, namely reflecting, associating, predicting, evaluating, and criticizing something related to the political and natural events during the reformation and post-reformation periods. 

scholarly journals The Teacher as Performer and Activist in Assia Djebar’s “La femme en morceaux”

1970 ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Christa Jones
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Francophone Literature ◽  
Assia Djebar ◽  
The Political ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
Political Stance

Francophone literature from the Maghreb has been characterized as littérature d’urgence by Maghrebian novelists and critics alike, a term that has also been used by Assia Djebar (Bonn & Boualit, 1999; Chaulet-Achour, 1998; Djebar & Trouillet, 2006). In Sartrian terms, it is a littérature engagée, writing that takes a political stance by addressing a variety of critical societal issues, including female oppression, patriarchy, education, religion, terrorism, mono-versus multi-linguism, and violence – in this case the murder of a French teacher in 1990s Algeria. In keeping with postcolonial theory, it is also a literature of resistance and rebellion by taking up the cause of Arab women writers, many of whom have fought to make themselves heard in what remain largely patriarchal societies that view women writers with suspicion (Ireland, 2001; Segarra, 1997; Morsly & Mernissi, 1994). I propose to explore the political, societal, and educational stances played out in “La femme en morceaux” (1996), a piece of Assia Djebar’s collection of short stories titled Oran, Langue Morte.

scholarly journals Amos Oz e Avraham B. Yehoshua à luz de Walter Benjamin

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Juliano Klevanskis Candido
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Single Text ◽  
The Way

Resumo: Este artigo analisa os contos “O caminho do vento” e o “O nômade e a víbora”, publicados por Amos Oz em 1965, e o conto “O casamento de Gália”, publicado por Avraham B. Yehoshua em 1970, à luz de alguns aspectos teóricos postulados por Walter Benjamin como “alegoria”, “narrativa”, “obra épica”, entre outros. Os três textos surgem no Brasil na coletânea O novo conto israelense (1978), organizado por Rifka Berezin. Nas narrativas é possível vislumbrar algumas imagens surrealistas e expressionistas, bem como um sentido de personagem moderno que demonstra a crise do homem no século XX, tal como proposto por Benjamin. Como isso acontece em um só texto? As reflexões sobre os contos de Oz e de Yehoshua, lidos à luz de Walter Benjamin e de suas proposições sobre a vanguarda europeia, se revelam apropriadas, assim, para seavaliar essas e outras questões presentes nas narrativas.Palavras-chave: Amos Oz; Avraham B. Yehoshua; Walter Benjamin.Abstract: This article examines the short stories “The way of the wind” and “Nomad and viper”, published by Amos Oz in 1965, and the short story “Gallia’s wedding”, published by Avraham B. Yehoshua in 1970, in the light of some theoretical aspects postulated by Walter Benjamin as “allegory”, “narrative”, “epic work”, among others. The three texts appeared in Brazil in O novo conto israelense (1978), organized by Rifka Berezin. The narratives show some surrealist and expressionist images, as well as a sense of modern character that demonstrates the crisis of man in the 20th century, as proposed by Benjamin.How does it happen in a single text? The reflections on the tales of Oz and Yehoshua, read in the light of Benjamin’s propositions on the European vanguard, are appropriate, therefore, to evaluate these and other issues present in the narrative.Keywords: Amos Oz; Avraham B. Yehoshua; Walter Benjamin.

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