scholarly journals CULTURAL HEGEMONY IN CHINUA ACHEBE'S THINGS FALL APART: A POSTCOLONIAL ANALYSIS

2022 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 184-191
Author(s):  
Shaymaa Neamah Mohammed ALMKHELIF
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Cultural Struggle ◽  
Things Fall Apart ◽  
Cultural Component ◽  
Selective Analysis

The current research paper considers theory of cultural hegemony as reflected in the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel Things Fall Apart. The study aims to examine Achebe's novel as a profound example of cultural hegemony during the colonial era. The novelist exhibits his mother land Nigeria as a culturally hegemonized territory by the English colonizer at that time. The study also presents Antonio Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony as the main subject in the development of both fields Cultural Studies and Postcolonialism. The research paper is divided into three main sections and a conclusion. The first section shows the development of cultural hegemony as a new theory at the hand of the Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci, who is known for his own perspective of hegemony as a cultural component. Based on Gramsci's theory, the second section examines the significance of cultural hegemony in the fields of Cultural Studies and Postcolonialism. As for the third section, it tackles the theory of cultural hegemony through a selective analysis of Achebe's novel. As far as Things Fall Apart is concerned, the analysis traces the novelist's attempt to expose colonialism as a hegemonic power through an overt portrayal of the cultural struggle between the colonizer and the colonized in Nigeria. Finally, the study ends with a conclusion that sums up the ultimate findings of the research..

Umberto Eco's Reflections on Morality in the Context of Cultural Identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (44) ◽  
pp. 84-88
Author(s):  
Jana Pecníková ◽  
Anna Anna Slatinská ◽  
Genovaitė Kačiuškienė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Italian Society ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Umberto Eco ◽  
Contemporary Writers ◽  
Identity Issue

The research paper focuses on the cultural and moral identity in Umberto Eco’s reflections. Attention is paid to the selected pieces. Umberto Eco is one of the most famous contemporary writers dealing with the issues of morality in Italian society. His works are devoted to the current perception of identity in the 21st century. The authors are interested in his view on values and identity in the selected chapters of his work. The aim of the paper is to analyse the identity issue in Umberto Eco’s works.The research objectives are based on recent doubts in cultural studies whether identity is fixed and firmly defined or acquired by a human being freely. Another question is the link between these two aspects. Although the origin of the word identity comes from Latin (idem – the same), nowadays it is more understood in its diversity as linguistic, cultural, national, moral identity, etc.

scholarly journals Gender Representation In Public Schools Textbooks Of Balochistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rana Saba Sultan ◽  
Nadil Shah ◽  
Ambreen Fazal
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Gender Presentation ◽  
Power And Energy

Gender became the attention of contemporary scholarships when women were found in domestic issues as well as gender inequality in terms of job opportunities, education, health, political participation etc. Many studies have been carried out regarding women issues and provided policies and laws to provide opportunities for women to contribute in the society. So, gender presentation in school textbooks is newly emerging field of study in the academia. The present study focuses on women presentation in school textbooks of Balochistan. The English Books for Class I, to V were taken as sample for present study. These books were selected through purposive sampling. All conversations, texts and images related to women misrepresentation were taken from selected books. These data were analysed by the help of Michal Foucault’s theory of power/Knowledge and Discourse Analysis and also Cultural Hegemony by Antonio Gramsci. The findings of the present study suggest that textbooks of Balochistan are clearly misrepresenting women and promoting the male hegemony. The women are shown in domestic works and teaching jobs which are considered soft works. On the other hand, men are shown in school administrations, public domains, ownerships and in those jobs which need more power and energy. So, it is clear that schools textbooks promote the gender biased approach because men are shown in powerful, prestigious, well reputed and respectable jobs and women are shown in less respected and less valued positions.

scholarly journals Explanation or Understanding? Movement Studies Between Natural Sciences and Cultural Studies

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Eichberg
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Cultural Struggle ◽  
Health Studies ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Abstract Movement studies are - like health studies - placed between natural sciences and cultural studies as well as between quantitative and qualitative methods. That is why they are challenged by some methodological contradictions. Yet the dual relations between nature and culture, and between quantitative and qualitative methods, may be of superficial character. Deeper beneath, one finds tensions with theoretical implications: between the quest for evidence and the comparative method, between generalization and case study, between explanation and understanding, between the correctness of the answer and the quality of the question, between affirmative and fluent knowledge, between factors and connections, between data and patterns, between the state of research and historical change of knowledge, between objectivity and subjectivity, and between theory and philosophy. There seems to be something akin to cultural struggle in the field of knowledge. Yet the dual contradictions do not comprise two neatly separated “cultures of knowledge” that exclude each other. There are cross-disciplinary connections and overlaps, which help toward an understanding of human life.

What Gramsci Can Tell Sport Communication Scholars About How Civic Leaders Sell Sports to Their Communities: A Look at the Braves’ Move to Atlanta

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-277
Author(s):  
Bill Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Sports Teams ◽  
Civic Leaders ◽  
Sport Communication ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
Major League ◽  
Baseball Team ◽  
The City

Antonio Gramsci argued that ruling classes stayed in power as much through cultural hegemony as through economic hegemony or brute force. Gramsci maintained that the dominant class established and maintained this cultural hegemony through negotiation and persuasion. Gramsci’s theory offers much to sport communication scholars who try to ascertain why certain communities (especially their civic leaders) build stadiums to attract major-league sports teams and events despite mounting economic evidence that these ventures often fail to yield the financial benefits touted by their advocates. This paper uses Gramsci’s theory to examine how the civic leaders of Atlanta enticed the populace and sporting press to use public funds to build a new sports stadium in the mid-1960s. Atlanta’s leaders used the sports stadium not only to lure a Major League Baseball team to the city but also to persuade the city’s populace that this move made the metropolis “big league.”

“Aru Oyim de de de Dei!”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent L. Wimbush
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Realistic Picture ◽  
The World ◽  
Black World ◽  
Things Fall Apart ◽  
Village Life ◽  
Anxiety And Fear

Things Fall Apart, with its thick and complex and rich representation of traditional village life, especially its central/centering rituals, sensibilities, and orientation, opens a window onto a world with a particular type of collective consciousness and politics and dynamics. In this chapter the Umuofia village in what we know today as Nigeria is introduced as the semi-fictional setting for the ongoing dynamics of a socially complex and richly textured society of local customs and traditions. Among these traditions is the masking ritual and the gendered, class, and interpersonal relations that it reflects and structures. Set at the end of the nineteenth century, at the height of the consolidations of the colonial era, Achebe’s story offers us an honest and realistic picture of a black world that represents a particular orientation to the world, a sensibility and mood, an epistemic system, including a certain felt anxiety and fear, symbolized by and managed through the mask worn in rituals.

Emotions, finances and independence. Uranium as a “happy object” in the Greenlandic debate on secession from Denmark

Polar Record ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Thisted
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Uranium Mining ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
Economic Progress

Abstract Analysing the Danish-Greenlandic debate on Greenland’s plans to extract and export uranium, the article advocates bringing the fields of extraction studies and cultural studies into dialogue. Drawing on discourse analysis, critical theory and the “emotional turn” in social sciences, the article demonstrates how the current discussion about secession is linked to a Danish-Greenlandic affective economy instituted during the colonial era. Conceived as the antithesis to the unhappy condition of present postcoloniality, independence has become the ultimate political goal for the Greenlandic nation. The reasoning is that history has made the Greenlanders citizens in a foreign nation, which has left them in a state of alienation. In order to lock colonialism away firmly in the past and attain future happiness, the Greenlanders must attain statehood. Uranium is supposed to promote this goal and is thus circulated as a “happy object”, positioning opponents of uranium mining as “affect aliens” or “killjoys” in the independence discourse. In Denmark, the Greenlandic detachment has led to “postcolonial melancholia” – and to a greater receptiveness to the Greenland desire for equality. In Greenland, disappointed expectations of rapid economic progress and growing distrust of large-scale projects have sparked a discussion about the significations of the concept of “independence”.

Cultural Hegemony at Novel Merpati Kembar di Lombok (Twin Pigeons in Lombok) by Nuriadi: Hegemony Analysis of Antonio Gramsci

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Muhammad Habiburrahman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Analysis Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Documentary Method

The recent research is related to the cultural hegemony which is contained within the novel Merpati Kembar di Lombok written by Nuriadi. The problems to be studied are the form of cultural hegemony which is contained within the novel Merpati Kembar di Lombok written by Nuriadi. Then the objectives of this research are describing the form of cultural hegemony. This is a descriptive qualitative research. Documentary method and note-taking technique are applied during data collection. Meanwhile, data analysis is conducted by applying the theory of hegemony proposed by Antonio Gramsci with several steps to follow such as data identification, data reduction, data analysis, data presentation and conclusion drawing. Then, the results of data analysis are: the form of cultural hegemony committed by the noble group/society within the novel Merpati Kembar di Lombok is categorized into two levels namely declining hegemony and minimum hegemony.

http://habibiaislamicus.com/index.php/hirj/article/view/196

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Ayaz Ahmad Rind ◽  
◽  
Sohail Akhtar
Keyword(s):  
Great Influence ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Political Position ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Contribution ◽  
Colonial Government

Sufi poetry have great influence on the lives of the people of Punjab in Pakistan and among the several important Sufis are famous due to their literary services which they have contributed in the reconstruction of the society. In South Punjab, from Dera Ghazi Khan Division one of the famous Sufi poets is Khawaja Ghulam Farid. His Shire is located at Kot Mithan. Khawaja Fareed is considered important mystic Saraiki poet of South Punjab. His poetry provided oxygen to the society and source of inspiration. The teachings of Khawaja Farid guided the people of the region during colonial Period. He was great critic of Colonial Government and he highlighted the worst aspects superstitious of colonial system. He tried his best to awaken the people through his poetry۔. So that the social and political position of the people can be improved by giving them awareness and they can be saved from humiliating slavery. Although he had mastery of languages as called a poet of seven languages but he is famous for Saraiki poetry and many scholars called him “Ghalib of Saraiki Language’” This research paper covers his socio-political contribution and literary services through Saraiki Poetry for the society during colonial era.

The Nonconformist Practices of Stuart Hall: Cultural Studies and the Politics of Emancipation

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 366-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Winter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
New Left ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Central Question ◽  
The World ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Capitalistic Society

Stuart Hall was a nonconformist intellectual in the tradition of the New Left whose work was inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci. Drawing on Hall’s deconstruction of the popular, and his critical analysis of, ideological struggles in media and society, my article examines his critique of capitalistic society and his political visions within the framework of the concept of hegemony. The central question of my contribution concerns what we can learn from Hall’s work today with regard to the following aspects: First, we have to recognize the importance of intellectual interventions to change the world. The second aspect follows his creative way of using and combining theories and concepts. Against this background, I conclude by addressing the ways in which we can understand our present age and look for more democratic alternatives.

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