scholarly journals Colonial discourse in the novel of Chinghiz Aitmatov “White ship” expressed through dichotomy

Keruen ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Arukenova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Sedentary Lifestyle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Middle Asia ◽  
Proper Interpretation ◽  
Different Levels

This article explores a novel of Chinghiz Aitmatov mostly famous under the title «White ship» regarding the semantic layers encoded in a dichotomy inherent in the mentality of Middle Asia ethnic groups. Texts created in Soviet times by representatives of Turkic culture on the border of a nomadic and sedentary lifestyle still need proper interpretation in terms of colonial discourse and a strategy for encoding meanings in the era of ideological censorship. The novel of Chinghiz Aitmatov has been analyzed in the article with use of literary psychoanalysis and intertextuality, the semantic layers of the work are considered in the aspect of ontological dichotomy. This paper traces how the author realizes his plan by contrasting mythological thinking and the colonial repressive system. The article reveals the function of the motive of fatherlessness and orphan hood, common in the works of Soviet authors and explores the role of the cruel state-superego-father, which destroy cultural identity and the spiritual origin of ethnos, replacing them with unification and facelessness. The mixture of subject and object, live and dead, past and future in the story form dichotomies of different levels and order, breaking the vacuum of the present: an orphaned boy without name, his grandfather as if from the mythological past, the white ship and a fairy tale without end.

scholarly journals DIKHOTOMY IN THE NOVEL OF SATIMZHAN SANBAEV "WHITE ARUANA"

Keruen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
O.A. Arukenova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sedentary Lifestyle ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Proper Interpretation

The article analyzes a novel of Satimzhan Sanbaev “White Aruana” with regards to the semantic layers encoded in symbols and metaphors inherent in the mentality of the Kazakh people. The novel had been researched by many literary critics as one of the bright stories of socialist realism, but has never been considered in psychoanalytical aspect and in the frame of colonial discourse. The theme of this article is a psychology and tragedy of the disabled war veteran and colonial discourse transmitted through an image of Aruana camel as a parallel to the main character, its genesis and interpretation. Texts created in Soviet times by representatives of Turkic culture on the border of a nomadic and sedentary lifestyle still need proper interpretation in terms of colonial discourse and a strategy for encoding meanings in the era of ideological censorship. The story of Satimzhan Sanbaev is considered in the article from the point of view of literary psychoanalysis and intertextuality, the semantic layers of the work are analyzed in the aspect of linguistic bilingualism. The article traces how the writer realizes his plan using the symbols and metaphors of nomadic culture, revealing the image and significance of the totem animal. The aim of the study, therefore, is to identify the semantics and functions of poetics that implements the theme in the text of the writer.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGISM OF THE NOVEL “THE BOOK OF TOMORROW” BY CECILIA AHERN

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (11(79)) ◽  
pp. 173-176
Author(s):  
Tetiana Cherepovska ◽  
Olena Binkevych
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
English Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Life Changes ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Ways Of Coping ◽  
Personal Loss ◽  
Linguistic Means

The article reveals the phenomenon of psychologism in fiction and the ways of its actualization in modern English literature concerned with psychological aspects. The notion is analyzed on the basis of Cecilia Ahern’s novel “The Book of Tomorrow” that depicts the protagonist’s psychological crisis as a result of personal loss and the ways of coping with negative experience. Lexical-stylistic and compositional means are studied through the prism of the representation of the protagonist’s internal feelings caused by inner and outer factors. The role of symbols, fairy-tale allusions, personifications, artistic details and comparative tropes in depicting the young girl’s crisis state and her reactions to life changes is traced. The function of key words, implicit details, temporal fractures and the title in the compositional framing of the text is researched. The role of the mentioned-above linguistic means in the reflection of transformations taking place in the protagonist’s consciousness is studied. Some peculiarities of Cecilia Ahern’s individual author’s style, such as wide use of fairy-tale allusions and personifications, contrastive application of some lexical-stylistic means (artistic details) and the coherent function of the others (an implicit detail, extended metaphors), are outlined. The author’s favourite key words are listed; the stylistic role of their repetitions in different contexts is shown. The retrospective actualization of the lexeme tomorrow presented in the title is traced.

scholarly journals Carribean migration and the construction of a black diaspora identity in Paul Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones

2006 ◽  
Vol 80 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Timothy S. Chin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Paule Marshall ◽  
Black Diaspora ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Analyses the novel 'Brown girl, brownstones' (1959) by Paule Marshall. Author argues that this novel offers a complex and nuanced understanding of how Caribbean migration impacts upon cultural identity, and how this cultural identity is dynamically produced, rather than static. He describes how the novel deals with Barbadian migrants to the US in the 1930s and 1940s, and further elaborates on how through this novel Marshall problematizes common dichotomies, such as between the public and the private, and between racial (black) and ethnic (Caribbean) identity. Furthermore, he indicates that Marshall through her representation of the Barbadian community, foregrounds the central role of women in the production of Caribbean identity in the US. In this, he shows, Bajan women's talk from the private sphere is very important. Further, the author discusses how the Barbadian identity is broadened to encompass Caribbean and African Americans in the novel, thus creating transnational black diaspora connections, such as by invoking James Baldwin and Marcus Garvey.

scholarly journals Fairy tale — myth — logos in the poetics of G. Yakhina`s novel “Children of mine”

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 237-247
Author(s):  
Nadezhda I. Pavlova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Soviet History ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Levels

The article is to study a mythological subtext of the novel “Children of mine” by G. Yakhina, which appeared at different levels: composition, plot, construction of the system of characters ' images. Main character of the novel, Jacob Bach, and his beloved Clara are reunited into a single whole, not only as lovers, but also as representatives of two interrelated and complementary principles of German culture-folklore and literature. The interaction of this pair of heroes should be considered in this symbolic context. Thus, the novel develops a fundamentally significant for its conception motif of prophecy, which implies a subtext about the creation of the world-Logos, which is further developed in the narrative, when the image of the main character fulfills the function of guardian of the cultural memory of the Volga Germans. At the same time, the act of creativity is synonymous with creation, which allows us to grasp in a complex novel whole the repeatability of components of a closed cycle of “myth-life”, fully realized in its narrative structure. Mythological world surrounding Bach is in opposition to the space of Soviet history, embodied in the image of the agitator Hoffmann. There is an inverted picture of the world: historical world as dead and the world of culture as a living world. Thus, in the novel, the poles of life and death exchange places in relation to the present and the past. In view of this conception, one can read a deep intention of the writer representing the word of culture as giving immortality and life in eternity.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF MUSEUM’S ARCHITECTURE IN ISLAMIC COMMUNITY: MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART, DOHA

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali A. Alraouf
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Islamic Art ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels

<p class="Keywords">As we are heading through the second decade of the 21<sup>st</sup> century, architecture of the Islamic communities is still an unresolved dilemma. In this context, the impact of iconic buildings which claim to represent Islam or provide a contemporary approach to Islamic architecture is crucial on different levels. Therefore, a year after Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) opening in Doha, Qatar, an evaluative perspective of the institution’s development story needs to be sketched. In this essay I will use MIA, Doha as a springboard for a discussion related to the museums of the 21<sup>th</sup> century. Then, I will try to exploit the findings of this discussion in the assessment and critical review of the museum itself. The assessment will include the ability of contemporary architecture to credibly represent Islamic cultural identity. This essay will analyze how and why community participation in museums is a significant factor in bridging the gap and improving relationship between the two institutions. The social inclusion leads to trust, understanding, a sense of identity, and creating a museum that is more relevant to the community. This essay also give some suggestions on how to build bridges between museums and communities, to provide an opportunity for the people living in such communities, like Gulf ones, to find out about their own heritage and to help them realize that it is through their active participation in museum activities that heritage is kept alive. Considering Qatar’s thrive into a post-oil paradigm where knowledge economy might be the generative force for development, an examination of how MIA is contributing to Qatar’s new vision becomes so relevant.</p>

Bad Feelings in the Provinces of History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew van der Vlies
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
South African ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Missed Appointments

Marlene van Niekerk’s novels Triomf (1994) and Agaat (2004) set new standards for Afrikaans fiction. This chapter canvasses the author’s abiding concerns with the forced adoption of the temporality of another—another political order, another cultural identity—that was at the heart of apartheid ideology, and with the multiple disappointments (missed appointments, frustrated desires) that resulted. Focusing on Agaat, it considers the role of the novel (and of the character Agaat within it) as a prosthesis that makes transmission—and critique—of culture possible. Turning to debates about the shape of World Literature, and the place of South African writing within it, the chapter also asks what the translation of Agaat into English suggests about the fates of writing from a specific national and linguistic context when taken up by a discipline that flattens difference.

Carribean migration and the construction of a black diaspora identity in Paul Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones

2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Timothy S. Chin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Paule Marshall ◽  
Black Diaspora ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Analyses the novel 'Brown girl, brownstones' (1959) by Paule Marshall. Author argues that this novel offers a complex and nuanced understanding of how Caribbean migration impacts upon cultural identity, and how this cultural identity is dynamically produced, rather than static. He describes how the novel deals with Barbadian migrants to the US in the 1930s and 1940s, and further elaborates on how through this novel Marshall problematizes common dichotomies, such as between the public and the private, and between racial (black) and ethnic (Caribbean) identity. Furthermore, he indicates that Marshall through her representation of the Barbadian community, foregrounds the central role of women in the production of Caribbean identity in the US. In this, he shows, Bajan women's talk from the private sphere is very important. Further, the author discusses how the Barbadian identity is broadened to encompass Caribbean and African Americans in the novel, thus creating transnational black diaspora connections, such as by invoking James Baldwin and Marcus Garvey.

scholarly journals SOME URGENT ISSUES DURING THE INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ODERNIZATION PROCESS OF THE KHMER ETHNIC GROUPS AT THE MEKONG DELTA OF VIETNAM

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-29
Author(s):  
Sen Van Vo ◽  
Tien Nam Tran
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Great Effort ◽  
Doi Moi ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels

Khmer is an ethnic group among the community of 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups coexisting in Vietnam which mainly appears in the Mekong Delta. Since 1975, together with many major initiatives of the country under the leading role of the Vietnam Communist Party and different levels of government, Khmer ethnic has promoted the traditions of great effort to overcome difficulties, obtained the successes in many fields, and greatly contributed to the Doi moi career of the country. Despite the great changes in terms of manufacturing as well as living standard, the Khmer ethnic is still facing some urgent issues during the process of modernization and industrialization. The article will focus on examining three current urgent issues of the Khmer ethnic in the Mekong Delta include: agricultural land, poverty, and the relationship with other ethnic groups. The solutions for these issues will also be suggested as the outcome of examining process of the article.

scholarly journals Cultural Identity as the Basis of Modern Cultural Typologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 1468-1473
Author(s):  
Dorzhi L. Khilkhanov ◽  
◽  
Erzhen V. Khilkhanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Traditional Production ◽  
Hybrid Forms ◽  
Industrial Economic

The purpose of this article is to show the significance of markers of cultural identity for modern ethnometric typologies. In the modern period of modernization various cultural typologies are becoming popular. They are compiled based on multicomponent factors. The authors briefly describe these classifications as traditional markers of identity, such as religion, and new factors of psychology and mentality. The modern concept that explains the hybridization of modern cultural forms is transculturation. The transcultural manifestations include a certain decline of the role of the native language and the transformation of the traditional production niche of ethnic groups in Siberia. The traditional perception of identity consists mainly of cultural, religious and linguistic characteristics. At the same time, the typologу of L. Harrison shows the positive correlation between the cultural and industrial-economic components. This historical fact was noted by the famous anthropologist Frederik Barth, who focused on the production component of the ethnic border as opposed to the cultural one. The existing significant differences in the professional structure among Russians and Buryats in the twentieth century prove the fact that ethnic borders, despite the globalization / modernization processes, can still be associated with a certain production niche. The authors come to the conclusion that cultural markers still retain their significance, but can be implemented in hybrid forms of transculturation. These processes are reflected in these cultural typologies in the forms of multicomponent factors

scholarly journals “ENTERING LIFE” OF POETRY BY E.T.A. HOFFMANN AND GÜNTER GRASS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yelena Etaryan
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Structural Principles ◽  
Literary Model ◽  
Role Of The Reader ◽  
Nobel Prize Laureate ◽  
Günter Grass

In this scientific article, it is assumed that the literary works of the Nobel Prize laureate and the German national poet Günter Grass are characterized by romantic features. For this reason, the novel Ein weites Feld (“A Wide Field”) by Grass and the fairy tale Der goldene Topf (“The Golden Pot”) by E.T.A. Hoffmann are examined in terms of their similarities and differences. It is noteworthy that E.T.A. Hoffmann has so far only been associated with Grass in relation to his fairy tale “Klein Zaches, called Zinnober”, and the main hero of the fairy tale served as a literary model for Oskar Matzerath from “The Tin Drum”. Thus, this article makes it possible to throw a new light on Grass’es research. In this paper the following aspects are analyzed: questions of poetics, genesis, main characters, narrative or fictional levels, structural principles, as well as the role of the reader. The results are summarized in the final part of the investigation.

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