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 PERWATAKAN WANITA MELAYU MUSLIM DALAM NOVEL ‘DIARI SEORANG JURURAWAT’ KARYA AMINAH MOKHTAR \n[THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A MALAY MUSLIM WOMAN IN THE NOVEL ‘DIARI SEORANG JURURAWAT’ BY AMINAH MOKHTAR]

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Abdul Halim Ali ◽  
Ida Roziana Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Muslim Woman ◽  
Female Character ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Personality Psychology

This paper aims to analyse the characteristics of a Muslim Malay woman as portrayed in the novel titled ‘Diary of a Nurse’ by Aminah Mokhtar from the perspective of Feminism Talbiah. The concept of Feminism Talbiah integrates Elaine Showalter’s notion of Feminism and Yusuf al-Qardhawi’s thoughts of Muslim women. Talbiah means a total surrender to Allah SWT. Tauhid is an essential element of a Muslim Malay woman who engages in total surrender to Allah SWT in terms of her personality, psychology, spiritual and other aspects of life. Textual analysis of the novel reveals that the main character, who is a Muslim Malay woman named Siti Munirah, holds the concept of talbiah as reflected in her obedience to Allah SWT. This paper concludes the character of Siti Munirah is developed based on the element of tauhid, which is the element neglected in the western feminism.Keywords: Feminism, feminism Talbiah, female character, Ginocritic, Malay, Muslim, tauhid.Cite as: Ali, A.H., & Abdullah, I.R. (2018). Perwatakan wanita Melayu muslim dalam novel ‘Diari Seorang Jururawat’ karya Aminah Mokhtar [The characteristics of a Malay muslim woman in the novel ‘Diari Seorang Jururawat’ by Aminah Mokhtar]. Journal of Nusantara Studies, 3(2),147-161. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol3iss2pp147-161 ABSTRAKKajian ini bertujuan menganalisis ciri-ciri perwatakan wanita Melayu Islam dalam novel ‘Diari Seorang Jururawat’ karya Aminah Mokhtar berasaskan Konsep Feminisme Talbiah. Konsep Feminisme Talbiah menggabungkan idea Feminisme Elaine Showalter dan pemikiran wanita Yusuf al-Qardhawi. Talbiah bermaksud menyerah diri secara mutlak kepada Allah SWT. Konsep Feminisme Talbiah memanfaatkan aspek tauhid sebagai elemen penting yang mendasari perwatakan wanita Melayu Islam yang menyerah diri secara mutlak dalam semua aspek kehidupannya baik dari sudut luaran dan dalaman. Aspek luaran terdiri daripada personaliti, ketakwaan dan budaya, manakala aspek dalaman pula terdiri daripada psikologi serta kerohanian. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan perwatakan watak utama dalam novel, iaitu Siti Munirah seorang wanita Melayu Muslim dari sudut personaliti, ketakwaan, budaya, psikologi dan kerohanian adalah sejajar dengan konsep talbiah yang berlandaskan ketauhidannya kepada Allah SWT. Dapat dirumuskan bahawa perwatakan watak wanita Muslim dalam novel ini berpaksikan kepada unsur ketauhidan dan unsur ketauhidan inilah yang diabaikan dalam pemikiran feminism Barat.Kata Kunci: Feminisme, Feminisme Talbiah, Ginokritik, Perwatakan, Tauhid

The Role of Muslim Women in Civil Society In Promoting Values and Principles for Building Peace: Action Guide from The Qur’ān

Sains Insani ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Che Amnah Bahari ◽  
Fatimah Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
Women And Children

The whole world, the Muslim in particular has witnessed conflicts in different areas, which have hindered the developmental efforts of the nations concerned. It should be learned that most victims of these conflicts are women and children. This article attempts to elaborate the role of Muslims Women as a crucial segment in civil society in initiating peace building through nurturing process. It maintains that the adoption of the principles and values derived from the Qur’ān and Sunnah of the Prophet is necessary as a process of lifelong learning.  Those identified values constituted the framework of this article and it adopts the textual analysis method.   This article concludes that through the implementation of those values and frameworks for peace building, women as one of the important segments of civil society are able to play significant role towards initiating peace building and promoting peaceful co-existence in pluralistic society. Abstrak: Dunia Islam khususnya telah menyaksikan konflik di pelbagai daerah yang berbeza. Konflik ini telah menghalang usaha kearah pembangunan Kawasan yang berkenaan. Kebanyakan mangsa konflik ini adalah wanita dan kanak-kanak. Artikel ini cuba untuk menghuraikan peranan wanita Islam sebagai segmen penting dalam masyarakat madani dalam membangun proses kedamaian dengan mendidik dan memupuk prinsip dan nilai murni janaan al-Qur’an. Penggunaan prinsip dan nilai yang dikutip dari ayat-ayat Qur'an dan hadis Rasulullah adalah keperluan yang mendesak sebagai wadah bagi proses pembelajaran sepanjang hayat. Nilai-nilai yang dikenal pasti merupakan rangka kerja artikel ini, dan metod yang dirujuk adalah analisis teks. Artikel ini menyimpulkan bahawa melalui pelaksanaan nilai-nilai dan kerangka kerja Islam bagi proses kedamaian, wanita Islam dalam masyarakat madani mampu memainkan peranan penting dalam memulakan pembinaan keamanan dan menggalakkan kehidupan yang harmonis, sejahtera dan saling bantu membantu dalam masyarakat majmuk.

Pain of Privacy

2020 ◽  
pp. 110-132
Author(s):  
Susmita Roye
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gradual Rise ◽  
Prescriptive Authority ◽  
British Raj ◽  
Women’S Representation ◽  
Western Imagination

If the rite of widow-immolation fired Western imagination at the turn of the nineteenth century, then purdah (life in seclusion) held captive the West’s attention at the turn of the twentieth. Purdah took on a special connotation especially during the British Raj. With the gradual rise of the novel ideas of nationhood across religions, languages or cultures of the subcontinent, purdah became more than the sceptre of male prescriptive authority for upholding religious/cultural precepts of a community. It became further charged as the confrontational ground of conflicting authority—for one race to rule and for the other to forge its identity as a self-ruling nation. Not only is women’s representation of purdah in their writings considered more authentic but they also often challenge the stereotyping of a purdahnashin and reject the broad-brushed, mono-toned portrayal of their existence. Although Hindus too practised purdah of a sort, this chapter focuses on two Muslim women writers (Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and Iqbalunnissa Hussain).

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 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 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.

scholarly journals The Tragedy of Painless Needs

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-232
Author(s):  
John D Loeser
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Intractable Pain ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Pain And Suffering

Intractable pain demands the attention of both the patient and the physician. However, modern science and medicine cannot and should not promise the abolition of pain and suffering. The novel, Ingenious Pain, by Andrew Miller offers profound insights into the world of pain. Not all painful experiences in life are deleterious, nor should they all be prevented.

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