scholarly journals Self- Identity and Black American Community in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

HARIDRA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (04) ◽  
pp. 32-33
Author(s):  
Sharda Singh ◽  
Priti Bhatt
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Black American ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Core ◽  
Silver Lining

Independent and integrated identity is coveted by every human being. Each one longs to be called an intelligent, aware, talented, responsive and creative individual. Black men and women are no exception .The two needs of home and wholeness; for which they yearn; are not available to them on this earth. And they lose in the game of searching identity. But it is well said that EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING. The present article pinpoints self-esteem and desires of the identify as the core of her protagonists. Sethe,protagonist of the novel Beloved prefers to kill her daughter rather than to re-slave her .Sethe finds that the prevailing definitions of women,mother and wife are challenged by her racist masters…but it is SHE WHO EXERTS HER IDENTY BY PAVING THE TORTOUS PATH..AND REFUTES ALL OBSTACLES WHICH she was sure that being black and women she can never get love and status.

La transposition profane de l’Exode dans Moïse fiction de Gilles Rozier

2013 ◽  
pp. 174-183
Author(s):  
Piotr Sadkowski
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Jewish Origin ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The World ◽  
Jewish Writers

Throughout the centuries French and Francophone writers were relatively rarely inspired by the figure of Moses and the story of Exodus. However, since the second half of 20th c. the interest of the writers in this Old Testament story has been on the rise: by rewriting it they examine the question of identity dilemmas of contemporary men. One of the examples of this trend is Moïse Fiction, the 2001 novel by the French writer of Jewish origin, Gilles Rozier, analysed in the present article. The hypertextual techniques, which result in the proximisation of the figure of Moses to the reality of the contemporary reader, constitute literary profanation, but at the same time help place Rozier’s text in the Jewish tradition, in the spirit of talmudism understood as an exchange of views, commentaries, versions and additions related to the Torah. It is how the novel, a new “midrash”, avoids the simple antinomy of the concepts of the sacred and the profane. Rozier’s Moses, conscious of his complex identity, is simultaneously a Jew and an Egyptian, and faces, like many contemporary Jewish writers, language dilemmas, which constitute one of the major motifs analysed in the present article. Another key question is the ethics of the prophetism of the novelistic Moses, who seems to speak for contemporary people, doomed to in the world perceived as chaos unsupervised by an absolute being. Rozier’s agnostic Moses is a prophet not of God (who does not appear in the novel), but of humanism understood as the confrontation of a human being with the absurdity of his or her own finiteness, which produces compassion for the other, with whom the fate of a mortal is shared.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Narrative Function of the Economic Elements in Their Eyes Were Watching God

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 01070
Author(s):  
Jiana Liu
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Social Background ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Equal Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
Representative Work ◽  
Narrative Function

In Zora Neale Hurston’s representative work, Their Eyes Were Watching God, economic elements occupy a large proportion. This paper aims to analyze economic elements and explore the narrative function of the economic elements in the novel: to participate in the construction of the social background, to advance the development of the plot and create the conflict between characters, to promote the shaping of the characters. Through the narrative function of economic elements in the above aspects, Hurston explores and reflects on the economic status of black women, the value of black women’s life, and the equal status of black men and women in society.

scholarly journals HUMAN COURAGE AND DIGNITY IN ERNEST J. GAINS A LESSON BEFORE DYING

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Simamora Rosa ◽  
Linus Rumapea
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Real ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Electric Chair ◽  
Face Threat

This research is on human courage and dignity in Ernest J. Gainess novel, A Lesson Before Dying. People are able to face threat, pain, danger, or even death in order to maintain their right and dignity relying on courage.This is library research and applies mimetic criticism proposed by Abrams saying that a work of literature is the imitation of the real world. It depicts human being who struggles to maintain and get acknowledgement of their right and dignity to live in respect and worth.The analysis focused on how courage and dignity raise someone who is desperated into brave and thoughtful to face his death. He is desperated because of a false accusision of being a murderer, compared as a hog, and sentenced to death in electric chair. Comparing to a hog makes him lost his courage and self-esteem. He eliminates himself and does not want to speak with others. His godmother disagrees with it and asks a teacher to teach him that he is a human being and should die as a human being too. Then, he is taught by a teacher of moral and obligation to face his death courageously and show that he is a human being who has duty and responsibility. Finally, he is able to sacrifice his death as a symbol of his courage and dignity to himself, his family and community. It is found that the author Ernest J Gains through the novel has vividly portrayed human beings who have courage are able to maintain and get acknowledgement of their right and dignity although they have to face threat, pain, danger, or even death.  

scholarly journals Instinct or Society? A Rouseauist Analysis of Corruption in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 155-158
Author(s):  
Adnan Al-Zamili
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Lord Of The Flies ◽  
Relations Of Power

The present study argues that William Golding’s Lord of the Flies can be read as a manifest for the natural degeneration of human beings, and that human beings are violent and competent by nature. In doing so, the present article, firstly, draws upon the Hobbesian philosophy of human nature and how it is in conflict with the related ideas of Rousseau. The article, then, analyzes certain elements of the novel so as to show the Hobbesian ideas behind the novel where there is a society of children and the upcoming relations of power and individual desires. The article afterwards argues that human nature, against what the author declares in the Hot Gates (1965) as the degenerated human nature, is not naturally degenerating, but through society this savagery of human being takes place. Ideas of Rousseau are then used thereupon for backing this very argument. Golding’s novel launces attack on Rousseau’s ideas that society is the agent of corruption in beings.

scholarly journals Desafios da Igreja do século XXI

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (260) ◽  
pp. 858
Author(s):  
Olga Consuelo Vélez Caro
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Ecological Consciousness ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Awakening ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Church ◽  
New Millennium

Partindo do contexto do Vaticano II e da mudança de horizonte que ele significou para a vida eclesial, o presente artigo reflete sobre alguns desafios que este novo milênio traz e aos quais a Igreja atual deve responder. Entre eles assinala-se os compromissos com os pobres e excluídos do Continente, o resgate do sujeito integral, o retorno ao sagrado, a passagem dos mega-relatos à articulação em redes, a valorização das culturas, o despertar da consciência ecológica e a reflexão sobre gênero. Não são todas as questões, porém, são algumas que são percebidas no contexto latino-americano como urgentes e necessárias para garantir que a Igreja seja significativa e pertinente para os homens e as mulheres de hoje.Abstract: By analysing the Vaticano II’s contexto and the changes it has brought to ecclesiastic life, the present article contemplates some challenges that have come along with this new millennium, and how the current Church should face them. For instance, the commitment with the poor and excluded ones of the Continent, the rescue of the human being as a whole, the return to sacredness, the passage from the mega-reports to articulation through networks, the valorization of cultures, the awakening of ecological consciousness, and the reflection on gender. These are not all the issues; however, some of them are considered urgent and necessary in the Latin-American context to guarantee that the Church be significant and pertinent for today’s men and women.

Precolonial Igbo Voices in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater (2018): A Palimpsestic Search for “Home”

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Eugenia Ossana
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Spiritual Belief ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
Self Formation

The present article examines how Freshwater (2018), the debut novel of the Nigerian writer  Akwaeke Emezi, offers a layered portrayal of precolonial Igbo and western narratives. By recourse to the auto-fictional narrative mode, the fiction deploys a constant tug of war which suggests the culturally hybrid nature of discourses connected to spiritual belief, self-identity dynamics and gender. My analysis pivots around three main discussions. Firstly, I trace and exemplify the aesthetic and thematic imbrication between Igbo cosmology (and Animism) and Christianity. Secondly, I seek to evince the unconventional depiction of plural consciousnesses coexisting in an individual in an effort to contest long-established truisms of self formation. I also focus on the ensuing amalgam between western conceptions of mental illness, trauma and Igbo mystic interpretations of reality. Considering the peripheral Igbo stance the novel depicts, the fiction will be contextualised within the current literary meta- and trans-modernist axis. Thirdly, I refer to transgender issues mapped up and brought to the fore through the main character’s predicament; a search for existential answers commingling divergent paradigms. Thus, Freshwater offers a peculiar polyphony of numinous narratorial voices which strive to question extant (neo)postcolonial truths.

scholarly journals Kesetaraan Gender dalam Persfektif Islam

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Ilfa Harfiatul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Main Obstacle ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
The Core ◽  
Women In Islam ◽  
The Status ◽  
Core Problem ◽  
Status Of Women

There is a negative stigma which assumes that Islam does not respect the position of women, limits its freedom, is unjust and makes women a second-class human being under the control of men. These reasons make this writing is interested. Departing from that thought, they also considered that Islam was the main obstacle to the struggle for gender equality. The purpose of this study is to uncover the core problem of gender equality in an Islamic perspective. This research was conducted using Islamic study methods and approaches. The position of women in Islam has the same rights and obligations as men, although there are some things that women cannot do and men can do, and vice versa. As for what distinguishes the degree between men and women is the level of piety. Islam has far raised the status of women and it can be said that in other religions there is nothing like and even exceeding the privileges of women other than in Islam.

The Relationship of Compliance with Coping Strategies and Self-Esteem

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisli H. Gudjonsson ◽  
Jon Fridrik Sigurdsson
Keyword(s):  
Sex Differences ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Sex Difference ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Summary: The Gudjonsson Compliance Scale (GCS), the COPE Scale, and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale were administered to 212 men and 212 women. Multiple regression of the test scores showed that low self-esteem and denial coping were the best predictors of compliance in both men and women. Significant sex differences emerged on all three scales, with women having lower self-esteem than men, being more compliant, and using different coping strategies when confronted with a stressful situation. The sex difference in compliance was mediated by differences in self-esteem between men and women.

Untimely Development, Ugly History:A Drama in Muslinand the Rejection of National-Historical Time

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-183
Author(s):  
Mary L. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Core

This article considers the politics and aesthetics of the colonial Bildungsroman by reading George Moore's often-overlooked novel A Drama in Muslin (1886). It argues that the colonial Bildungsroman does not simply register difference from the metropolitan novel of development or express tension between the core and periphery, as Jed Esty suggests, but rather can imagine a heterogeneous historical time that does not find its end in the nation-state. A Drama in Muslin combines naturalist and realist modes, and moves between Ireland and England to construct a form of untimely development that emphasises political processes (dissent, negotiation) rather than political forms (the state, the nation). Ultimately, the messy, discordant history represented in the novel shows the political potential of anachronism as it celebrates the untimeliness of everyday life.

Who’s holding up the sky? On Rymba, a novel by A. Bushkovsky

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-158
Author(s):  
A. V. Zhuchkova
Keyword(s):  
Gender Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Flood Zone ◽  
The Social ◽  
Russian North ◽  
And Gender

The article deals with A. Bushkovsky’s novel Rymba that goes beyond the topics typical of Russian North prose. Rather than limiting himself to admiring nature and Russian character, the author portrays the northern Russian village of Rymba in the larger context of the country’s mentality, history, mythology, and gender politics. In the novel, myth clashes with reality, history with the present day, and an individual with the state. The critic draws a comparison between the novel and the traditions of village prose and Russian North prose. In particular, Bushkovsky’s Rymba is discussed alongside V. Rasputin’s Farewell to Matyora [ Proshchanie s Matyoroy ] and R. Senchin’s The Flood Zone [ Zona zatopleniya ]. The novel’s central question is: what keeps the Russian world afloat? Depicting the Christian faith as such a bulwark, Bushkovsky links atheism with the social and spiritual roles played by contemporary men and women. The critic argues, however, that the reliance on Christianity in the novel verges on an affectation. The book’s main symbol is a drowning hawk: it perishes despite people’s efforts to save it.

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