scholarly journals Formation of Identity through the Presentation of Motherhood in Tahmima Anam’s A Golden Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 208-213
Author(s):  
Rukunuddin Shaikh
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
Religion And Nationalism

Tahmima Anam is the first Bangladeshi novelist in English who draws international attention to the Liberation war of 1971 of Bangladesh through the publication of her first novel A Golden Age in 2007. The Liberation war is replete with the incident of genocide, rape, inhuman torture, abductions etc. The war has instilled a kind of horror into the psyche of Bangladeshi people. During the war the Muslim majority of people of East Pakistan are in an acute identity crisis. Pakistan was formed on the basis of religion Islam. But even religion cannot unite the two wings of Pakistan. Therefore people are in an identity dilemma between religion and nationalism. They are also in a fix as to whom to support- East or West Pakistan. Anam captures this particular complexity in her novel through the protagonist Rehana Haque. In this paper, I will bring forth the complexity of identity formation through the depiction of motherhood of Rehana Haque from feministic standpoint.

How did adoption become a dirty word? Indigenous citizenship orders as Irreconcilable Spaces of Aboriginality

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-364
Author(s):  
Kahente Horn-Miller
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Indigenous Child ◽  
Indigenous Children ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Colonial Order ◽  
Community Decision

In the fall of 2016, the Kahnawà:ke Community Decision Making Process revised the Kahnawà:ke Law on Membership regarding adoption. It was decided that any non-Indigenous child adopted by a Kahnawà:ke family after 2003 would not be recognized as a Kanien’kehá:ka of Kahnawà:ke or an approved resident. Parents were committing an offense in adopting non-Indigenous children and would no longer be eligible to reside in Kahnawà:ke. This decision drew national and international attention, with some questioning the logic of targeting a practice so integral to many Indigenous legal orders. This article frames Rotinonhsiónni adoption, belonging, and identity formation beyond the confines of colonial thought. This might seem like a tall order given colonialism’s all-encompassing grasp on Indigenous minds and communities; indeed, we are all entangled in the colonial order. But there is a way to challenge this by moving beyond frameworks reliant on colonial control.

scholarly journals Religious Dilemma and Identity Crisis in Saud Alsanousi's The Bamboo Stalk (2015)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 172-185
Author(s):  
Abubakr M.A. Abdu-Alhakam ◽  
Mohamed Elamin Elshingeety ◽  
Wigdan Yagoub Sherif
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Dda Method

The current paper aims to investigate the religious identity crisis in the themes of Alsanousi's The Bamboo Stalk (2015). It also determines to explore the kinds of the identity status depicted in the novel as well as the causes of identity loss. The paper takes the qualitative approach for data interpretation and adopts the descriptive discourse analysis (DDA) method. The analysis is then guided by the intercultural communication theory (ICT). The paper found that the protagonist and some other characters face identity crisis and suffer from religious dilemma due to several reasons the most of which is the dominance of the socio-class norms that prevents religion from playing its role in making its adherents equal. The paper also confirms the negative effect of hybridization on the religious identity formation. It reinforces the validity of the application of ICT on fictive data and contributes new form of IC analysis on fictive data.

scholarly journals Identity Crisis: The Agency of Instagram in Schools of Architecture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Smith ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Prospective Student ◽  
Representational Practice ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The focus of this paper addresses themes of neoliberalism, university commercialization and marketing, architecture school identity formation as a representational practice through social media, and the role of image curation and its production in contemporary architecture. This paper emerged after hearing the phrase ‘buyer’s motive,’ which explained what schools needed to consider for attracting students to their programs at a conference by Ruffalo Noel Levtiz on recruitment, marketing, and retention in higher education in the United States. The use of the word, ‘buyer’, instead of ‘student’, or ‘prospective student’, or ‘learner’ seemingly transformed the production of engaged education to its passive consumption.

scholarly journals In Search of True Identity: The Mutual Relationships of Human Beings in Ian McEwan’s Atonement and Enduring Love

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 92-100
Author(s):  
Zohreh Ramin ◽  
Fatemeh Masoumi
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Erik Erikson ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Character Representation ◽  
New Form ◽  
Ian Mcewan

Critically acclaimed writer, Ian McEwan, has been recognized as a pioneer for writing unique forms of fiction. His craftsmanship has been explained as “rational”, “controlled”, and “precise”. The narrative organization in his works brings out the human nature, which is at times, introduced as misled, confused, and guilt ridden. Influenced by Freud, McEwan has written novels which probe into the psyche of the characters so deeply that they resemble psychological case studies. It is here argued that a psychological reading can be done based on the theories of Erik Erikson; namely, identity crisis and identity formation of the characters. Furthermore, to provide a richer theoretical background, narratology is incorporated. Monika Fludernik‟s narratological novel approach sheds light on issues of misinterpretation and unreliability to further verify the psychological aspects of the work. Atonement and Enduring Love have been analyzed as evidence on the basis of theories in narratology and psychology. Finally, drawing on both theories, a new form of character representation will be manifested on identity and self-recognition.

scholarly journals PUBLIC MORALITY IN INDONESIAN PENAL CODE DRAFT: Zina Definition Debate

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Hary Widyantoro
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Public Morality ◽  
Interesting Study ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
Muslim Majority

Bahasan tentang dihidupkannya kembali hukum zina di negara-negara mayoritas Muslim dilakukan oleh Kepala Hukum Pidana yang mendapat banyak perhatian dari segi nasional dan internasional. Penelitian ini menguji kontestasi definisi Zina antara aktor. Ia berpendapat bahwa nilai-nilai agama telah menjadi kerangka kerja untuk menjadikan moralitas menjadi urusan publik melalui hukum reformasi, di negara mayoritas Muslim Indonesia yang majemuk. Kontestasi antara tempat-tempat keagamaan dan sekuler dalam proses, sebagai bagian dari islamisasi yang sedang berlangsung. Data dari media yang dikumpulkan, seperti surat kabar online dan program TV One (Indonesian Lawyers Club) di mana para aktor terlibat dalam membangun wacana gender, seksualitas, dan regulasi di Indonesia. Oleh karena itu, ini berkontribusi pada diskusi mengenai masalah gender dan seksual di negara-negara mayoritas islam, di mana ide-ide agama dan sekuler dipertentangkan.A heated debate at the end of 2017 to the beginning of 2018 in Indonesia, on zina redefinition in Indonesian Penal Code that received both national and international attention, as becoming an interesting study discussing the revival of Zina law in Muslim majority countries. This study examines the contestation over Zina definition between actors. It argues that religious values has become framework to make morality becomes public matter through the law reform, in Indonesian plural Muslims majority country. The contestation between religious and secular took place in the process, as part of ongoing Islamization. The data is collected from media, such as online newspaper and the TV One Indonesian Lawyers Club program where actors were involved in constructing the discourse of gender, sexuality, and its regulation in Indonesia. Hence, this contributes to the discussion on gender and sexuality in Muslims majority countries, where religious and secular ideas are contested.

scholarly journals Patterns of Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion in American Society: The Case of Chaldean Americans

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Lanouar Ben Hafsa
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
The United States ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Cultural Inclusion ◽  
American Society ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Broad Consensus

This study aims to shed light on a community for long positioned as Arab and/or Muslim but still in search of a sense of belonging that promotes its ancestral heritage and at the same time reinforces bonds of solidarity among its members. It investigates the rhetoric around the Detroit-based Chaldean diaspora, not merely as case in point, but also because this is where the bulk of Chaldean Americans are concentrated. While it retraces their pathway from the homeland (Iraq) up through their establishment in the United States, it essentially explores the debate surrounding the group’s identity formation. Principally, it seeks to scrutinize patterns of continuity and change operating within the Chaldean microcosm, namely to demonstrate that the construct “ethnic identity” is more than a question of self-perception. It rather involves an interplay of mechanisms that concur to preserve the group’s distinctive features and keep it shielded against threatening erasure. The investigation suggests to evidence, ultimately, that even though it exhibits broad consensus on basic elements of association that unify its individual members, notably Church and family, the Chaldean diaspora is by no means conflict-ridden. In effect, the persevering influx of co-ethnics fleeing persecution in the homeland appears to be a new source of internal frictions likely to polarize the community and precipitate an identity crisis.

The life story

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
William L. Dunlop ◽  
Lawrence J. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Autobiographical Reasoning

In this article, we review, on three grounds, the nature of the life story. First, we evaluate the appropriateness of the proposal that the life story emerges in adolescence (the time of the traditional identity crisis). Second, we examine the relation between big stories (of which the life story is one) and small stories. Finally, we consider whether the construction of the life story (and narration more broadly) represents the sole mode of identity formation. It is argued here that (a) the belief that adolescence marks the emergence of the life story is based on an unnecessarily limiting requisite for autobiographical reasoning; (b) collective understanding of stories, big and small, would be furthered through a more thorough consideration of their relation; and (c) the construction of a life story represents one of at least two viable routes for identity formation; identity can also be attained via a non-narrative, paradigmatic route.

Family Secrecy: Experiences of Danish German Children Born of War, 1940–2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-76
Author(s):  
Martina Koegeler-Abdi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Potential Resource ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
German Children ◽  
Families With Children

Families with children born to Danish mothers and German soldiers during WWII often resorted to secrecy to ward off discrimination and harm. Not knowing their origins, though, could have long-term consequences for the identity formation of these children born of war (CBOW). Based on a qualitative analysis of personal testimonies and interviews, this paper shows that the secret burdened, protected, and implicated the CBOW in the case studies in different ways at different points in their lives. This article approaches secrecy not only as a root cause of CBOW identity crisis, but also as a potential resource for resilience through memory work.

scholarly journals MIGRATION, WAR, AND THE MAKING OF A TRANSNATIONAL LEBANESE SHIʿI COMMUNITY IN SENEGAL

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 290a-290a
Author(s):  
Mara A. Leichtman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Muslim Majority ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Religion And Nationalism ◽  
The Relationship

This article investigates links between religious and political transnationalisms through analyzing responses to the 2006 Lebanon war from the diaspora. I examine the role of a shaykh in bringing Lebanese Shiʿa in Senegal “back to Islam” as well as (spiritually if not physically) back to Lebanon. I explore his efforts to institute formal religious education through a Friday sermon, encourage public expressions of piety, and introduce new religious rituals in commemorations of ʿAshuraʾ and Ramadan. This ethnographic study adds a diaspora component to debates about Lebanese nationalism and suggests that the ideology of the umma does not hold for a marginalized Muslim minority community in a Muslim majority country, which instead defines itself along reformulated ethnic, religious, and national boundaries. The paper contributes to newly emerging scholarship on transnational Shiʿi linkages by demonstrating how the African example adds another dimension to our understanding of the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East.

scholarly journals DYNAMICS OF THE PERSONAL IDENTITY CRISIS UNDER CONDITIONS OF SOCIAL INSTABILITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-349
Author(s):  
N.R. Krasovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Social Instability ◽  
The World

The article considers the issue of the personality identity crisis in the situation of social instability and discusses the topicality of the phenomenon. It is shown that crises constantly occur at certain stages of development of a person, group, society as a whole or in different spheres of a social life, but at the same time they have their own uniqueness and significance. The crisis is considered as a problem that cannot be avoided, but also cannot be resolved with the available means. Personal identity is understood as an internal, self-created, dynamic organization of needs, abilities, beliefs and individual history. In modern conditions of uncertainty and instability, contradictions that exist in the image of the world by the people are intensified to the maximum and have a destabilizing effect on their emotional state and physical well-being. The uniqueness of the situation is that the scale of the threat is equal to the total population of the globe, the threat is inevitable and extraordinary in its consequences. Humanity has never faced such a situation in its history. The author notes that for all scientific approaches in the frame of which the problem is studied, the common thing is that in the process of identity formation, a person discovers himself / herself and his /her place in the world, its main function is to maintain stability, certainty, continuity, and the integrity of the personality. The article identifies and examines the causes of the modern identity crisis that accompanies globalization processes in the world, describes the types, stages, features of a person's situational reactions to the crisis, psychological features of the manifestations of identity in crisis situations at the emotional, cognitive, and behavioral levels. It is concluded that, to a significant extent, the identity crisis, its dynamics, the scale in which it is presented in the modern world is a consequence of globalization processes leading to the disintegration of traditional social ties, which were the basis of stability in previous conditions. Today the task of choosing a “life project” for oneself, constructing and adapting an identity is becoming urgent.

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