scholarly journals Muslim Romance in Diaspora: Leila Aboulela’s “Minaret” (2005) and the Ethics of Reading in the West

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2 (6)) ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
John A. Stotesbury
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reception ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Western Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Ethics Of Reading ◽  
Main Components

The inclination of theorizing literary works published in the Diaspora and in the post-colonial period, that has been observed recently tends to turn the investigation of the main components of literary works into a side task. Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela’s work can be considered one of the examples of such pieces of work. The novel is based on existential alternatives which are experienced by Sudanese women living with Muslim values in western society. The ambiguous norms in the Minaret by Aboulela are examined in the light of Andrew Gibson’s critical reception and receptivity.

scholarly journals CITRA EKSOTIK DALAM NOVEL RONGGENG DUKUH PARUK

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Abu Bakar Ramadhan Muhamad
Keyword(s):  
Power Relationship ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Aesthetic Object ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
World Region ◽  
East Region ◽  
Rearrangement Process ◽  
Ambivalent Relationship ◽  
Material Conditions

Imaging of a discourse in the paradigm of postcolonialism is closely related to the issue of domination and subordination in terms of reference to imperialism or capitalization. The imagery is a project that develops special perceptions about "foreign" (East) regions. This project presupposes that the "foreign" (East) region is exotic "uncivilized" regions, standardized in a special "understanding", whose main purpose is to separate or dissolve it ("tame" the "foreign" region), so that different from or being "civilized". One area that is strongly embedded in this project is literature, with the novel as an aesthetic object. In connection with this issue, this article reveals how the East is presented in its exotic image, so how the image represents an ambivalent relationship between the East (colonized) and the West (invaders), especially in the Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk (RDP) novel by Ahamad Tohari.The results of the study show that the RDP novel is an urgent medium related to the conditions of postcoloniality. The postcoloniality is meant not only that the narrative that is displayed is the essence of what is obtained from the author about the exotic world region (the nature of Paruk dukuh) with all the signs attached to it, narration is also used as an affirmation of identity and historical existence, in the context of civilized culture. The culture in question is the source of identity that is championed as a filter and lifter, for the community that has been known and thought about, as an invitation for emancipation. Power and ability to tell stories, in this case, are used as weapons of the author in hopes of inspiring readers. The expected result is the hegemonic reader of the discourse displayed in the work of the author.In the post-colonial context, this method is inseparable from a combination where political and ideological power is interrelated, where the image represented is always still signifying the "emancipation" power relationship between the West and the East. However, like ideology, imaging must be realized other than as originating from and relating to material conditions and material effects, it is also a misrepresentation of reality and in its rearrangement process. Therefore, the potential, possibilities, and certain visions that follow, are full of content, values, or strategies for "mastering" (power). Especially in the Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk novel by Ahamad Tohari, exotic images give rise to ambivalent meanings for emancipation efforts (West to East).

scholarly journals An Analysis into the Travels of the Translated Self in V.S Naipaul’s Half A Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Gora Chand Das
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Life Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
The West ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The World

V.S.Naipaul expertly exhibited a great craftsmanship in literary pieces like fiction, travel and journalistic writing. His fictional world reveals a critical look on the world and also utilizes its traditions, customs and cultures. Naipaul’s writing express the ambivalence of the exile, a feature of his own experience as an Indian in the West Indies, a West Indies in England, and a nomadic intellectual in a post colonial world. Naipaul adhered to the form of the traditional narrative, and by doing away with the technical devices of the stream of consciousness; he exhibits his power of writing by making his readers share the inevitable irony and paradox of modern life form by its quintessential self-division and inner conflict. The protagonist of Naipaul’s fiction may be different persons but there may be sensed a thread of continuity in their fate and there “limbotic” status. He has described the theme of a quest for identity, a sense of displacement, alienation, exile of an individual in the backdrop of colonial and postcolonial period. The act of displacement, his trying efforts to organize his experience, and his gazing back to know about his roots and his continuing search for the desirable self can be clearly stated in his novel Half A Life (2001). In the novel Half A Life, Willie Chandran is a migrant from one place to another and then to another. And he keeps on doing that through both Half A Life, and its sequel Magic Seeds (2004).  

scholarly journals "But you're Indian!" Cultural Hybridity and Assimilation in The Namesake

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sura Mohammad Khrais
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Cultural Challenges ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Jhumpa Lahiri

This paper is a study of the cultural struggle and conflict survived by the protagonists in The Namesake (2003) by Jhumpa Lahiri as they move from their native land to America. It is an application of the theoretical concepts of hybridity and assimilation, as discussed in post-colonial criticism by critics such as Homi Bhabha. The researcher will discuss how the three main characters finally manage to develop new anti-monolithic models of cultural growth and exchange. As a result, they succeed in embracing a new culture while protecting their Bengali heritage. The novel depicts the life of an Indian couple (Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli) who settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1968. It describes the cultural challenges the heroine faces as she struggles to accommodate to a new Western society. Ashima clings tightly to her Bengali roots and identity, a fact which becomes apparent through the dilemma caused over naming their first baby. However, to survive the challenges of Massachusetts' society, Ashima welcomes its culture to a certain extent. Thus, she succeeds in overcoming feelings of loneliness and displacement. On the other hand, Ashoke's adjustment is less complicated. Although he copes with the new Western life faster, his respect for his native traditions is daily observed. His resentment of his children's attempt to give up their native identity is heartbreaking. Early in the novel, Gogol rejects symbols of his Indian culture, and later he repudiates his parents' style of life. Finally and after his father's death, Gogol's personal growth is associated not only with him welcoming his native culture, but also embracing both cultures in an excellent example of cultural hybridity.

scholarly journals Perepresentasian Liyan Dalam Novel Ushfur Min Ash-Sharq Karya Tawfiq Al-Hakim

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Hendra Apriyono
Keyword(s):  
Travel Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
East And West ◽  
The One ◽  
Western Hegemony

This research is motivated by the imbalance of relations between East and West in Arabic travel literature. The inequality is caused by the representation of the superior (West) and the inferior (East) which is constantly being produced. The novel Uṣfur min al-Syarq by Taufiq al-Hakim as one of Arabic travel literature is considered to offer a different view from other Arabic travel literature by proposing the value of equality between East and West. This research is expected to be able to resolve the problem of inequality in relations between East and West as represented in Arabic travel literature. This research uses another representation strategy from Carl Thompson's travel literary concept which consists of colonial, neo-colonial, and post-colonial strategies. The results of this study found that the representations of the others made by al-Hakim which were dominated by the use of colonial and post-colonial strategies showed that the author occupied two opposing positions. On the one hand, al-Hakim is still trapped in colonial discourse and on the other hand, al-Hakim is not entirely successful in bringing the post-colonial travel agenda to escape from Western hegemony. The equality proposed by al-Hakim regarding the East is inseparable from Western assistance. To realize the equality of the East and the West, al-Hakim used the superiority of the West to face the West in order to defend the East.

scholarly journals PESANTREN’S RESISTANCE AGAINST CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gonda Yumitro ◽  
Dion Maulana Prasetya
Keyword(s):  
Material Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Mass Movements ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Globalization ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Local Tradition ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Materialistic Values

<strong>Abstract</strong><strong>: </strong>This research attempts to explore the resistance of Pesantren against cultural globalization dominated by western society. By using the post-colonial approach, it is found that there is the process of re-reading the meaning of globalization and re-defining of ‘self’ as the subject of globalization. Pesantren introduced the concept of non material point of view namely <em>al-tarbiyah wa al-ta‘lim</em> preserving the local tradition in facing the secular and materialistic values of the West. Interestingly, this concept has emerged as prominent alternative of Islamic position showing the adaptability of Islam toward the globalization. Based on this research, the author thus argues that the violence and mass movements have no longer been used by the pesantren as an indication of modernzing Islamic  approach in the globalization era.<br /> <br /><strong>Abstrak: Resistensi Pesantren terhadap Globalisi Budaya</strong>. Penelitian ini mencoba menggali resistensi pesantren terhadap globalisasi budaya yang didominasi oleh masyarakat Barat. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan pasca-kolonial, ditemukan bahwa ada proses membaca ulang makna globalisasi dan mendefinisikan ulang 'diri' sebagai subjek globalisasi. Pesantren memperkenalkan konsep cara pandang non material yaitu <em>al-tarbiyah wa al-ta</em><em>‘</em><em>lim</em> yang melestarikan tradisi lokal dalam menghadapi nilai sekuler dan materialistik dari Barat. Menariknya, konsep ini telah muncul sebagai alternatif utama posisi Islam yang menunjukkan adaptasi Islam terhadap globalisasi. Berdasarkan penelitian ini, penulis berpendapat bahwa kekerasan dan gerakan massa sudah tidak lagi digunakan oleh pesantren sebagai indikasi terjadi modernisasi pendekatan Islam pada era globalisasi ini.<br /><strong> </strong><br /><strong>Keywords</strong>: globalization, <em>pesantren</em>, culture, postcolonial, materialistic

scholarly journals Edward Said: Post-colonial Discourse and Its Impact on Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Naifa Al Mtairi
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
The West ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
Colonial Theory

This paper highlights Edward Said’s ideology for discerning literary texts that followed the colonial period as a post-colonial discourse. Though some scholars disapprove that notion, Said holds the view that literature is a product of contested social and economic relationships. The West attempts to represent the East and consequently dominates it, not only for knowledge but for political power as well. He assures the worldliness of texts and their interferences with disciplines, cultures and history. Thus, the post-colonial critic should consider the post-colonial literature that might take the form of traditional European literature or the role of the migrant writer in portraying the experience of their countries. The pot-colonial theory with its focus on the misrepresentation of the colonized by the colonizer and the former’s attitude of resistance, draws new lines for literature and suggests a way of reading which resists imperialist ideologies.

scholarly journals The Portrayal of Women: Feminist Analysis of A Hologram for The King

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Samal Marf Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Self Objectification

This research paper attempts to investigate the representation of women, their character and their rights in Dave Eggers’ novel A Hologram for the King (2012), according to the feministic approach to literary works. Gender bias has been reflected in many literary works from classical canonical works to contemporary literary ones and has been dealt with in many critical pieces. The theme of self-objectification, which is closely tied to gender bias to some extent, has not been analyzed, independently and fully, especially in the literature of the post-colonial era. The current study scrutinizes the writer’s portrayal of women characters in order to uncover the replication of the same stereotypes and gender bias categories against women, dominant in the literary works before the post-colonial era. Based on the feminist approach, A Hologram for the King is identified as a misogynist work although it is written in postmodern era. The author of the novel, is inspired by men’s superiority, creates a completely distorted image of women by introducing them as people who turn themselves into objects of pleasure for men. The novelist further deprives women of their rights and misrepresents them as unprincipled humans, disparaging them as naïve and sexually licentious creatures. After all, this study becomes a means of writing back against marginalization of women, in their picturization and their subordination to men.

scholarly journals Book Review: Misi Dalam Pandangan Ekumenikal dan Evangelikal Asia 1910-1961-1991

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-213
Author(s):  
Arthur Aritonang
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
The West ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Western Religion ◽  
The Church

The background of the research conducted by Richard Siwu stems from the events of the Western colonial period to countries in Asia and Africa. Previously, Siwu wanted to divide this era into two periods: the colonial era and the post-colonial era. The colonial era meant the expansion of western civilization into Africa and Asia. While the post-colonial era where the end of Western domination and the birth of new nations in Africa and Asia. In colonial times, most of the countries in Asia and Africa were colonies of European nations and were politically under the control of the West. Awareness of nationalism only grew when the influence of modernization brought by Western colonialism to Africa and Asia created a form of resistance to the West which eventually gave birth to new countries. At that time there was an assumption that Christianity was a Western religion because it came along with the expansion of the West into Asia and Africa. However, the awareness of nationalism at that time encouraged the churches in Asia in particular to break away from the domination of the Western churches and also indigenize the churches in Asia with a local style. Does the end of colonialism end the mission of the church? The answer is no because from the beginning Christianity was a missionary religion read Matthew 28:19. So, this research will analyze Protestant views in Asia regarding mission from 1910 to 1991. This research shows that after the colonial era they were polarized in two main streams: ecumenical and evangelical.

scholarly journals The Multi-dimensional Reality in “Conversation in the Cathedral”

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-117
Author(s):  
Phuong Ngoc Le
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Mario Vargas Llosa ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dialogue Model ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The People ◽  
Third World Country ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Narrative Language

The study was conducted with the purpose of deeply understanding the novel Conversation in the Cathedral of Peruvian of Mario Vargas Llosa which was translated into Vietnamese by Pham Van in 2011. Written in the late 1960s, although Conversation in the Cathedral of Peruvian was not his latest novel, it is still recognized as his most monumental work marking his ability to genuinely reflect and recreate the whole social aspects of Peru’s times. The most noticeable characteristics of the novel was choosen to study: building of broad and multi-faceted reality, discovering reality in different dimensions and reference systems The paper also shows Mario Vargas Llosa’s examination and judgement, acuity of his explanation of personal destiny and fate of the people under changing dictatorship. With massive capacity of 640 pages, Conversation in the Cathedral vividly expressed sprawling realistic mass in confusion and disorder of a poor third-world country in post-colonial period. Apart from exploring life, multi-dimentional reality in the work is researched on through innovative aspects of art of novel: unprecedented way of writing, application of dialogue model, use of multi-layered and bi-layered structures of narrative language and personnal pronouns. Through Conversation in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa has proved himself as a writer of high calibre, with keen knowledge of social life, and with a strong desire to discover reality of his self right from the inside.

Kepercayaan Dinamisme Masyarakat Postkolonial Jawa dalam Novel Entrok Karya Okky Madasari

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Fitri Nurul Afni
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Study Techniques

The diversity of beliefs in Javanese dynamism is the object of cultural reflection in postcolonial societies in the novel Entrok by Okky Madasari. The beliefs of the postcolonial Javanese community were dominant with Javanese traditions handed down by ancestors and the results of acculturation that formed the compilation of the colonial period. The purpose of this article is the conversion of Javanese post-colonial beliefs in Entrok's novel that reflects Javanese traditions handed down by ancestors or the results of acculturation that formed the compilation of the colonial period. This article uses descriptive methods using qualitative methods, using literature study techniques, and data analysis in the form of data reduction, data presentation, and making conclusions. This article contains the dynamism beliefs about belief in Kawi Mount, sacred trees, tuyul, and witchcraft.

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