scholarly journals “From Un-concealment to Nothingness: Nihilism in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Zainabu Jallo’s Onions Make Us Cry”

Author(s):  
Chigbu Andrew Chigbu ◽  
Gideon Uzoma Umezurike ◽  
Chibuzo Onunkwo

Despite the century and three-decade gap between them, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s Houseand Zainabu Jallo’s Onions Make Us Cry have often been studied for their indebtedness to two movements that have shaped human history and conditioned contemporary thoughts: the former as a play that inaugurates the modernist discuss in literature and pioneered the feminist subject, and the latter expressively reflecting this gender-based discourse. However, the position of this study is that aside the woman question, the texts share some other important elements. They both provoke the question of being and existence: the being of human reality and of truth. In Ibsen and Jallo, we witness Nora’s and Malinda’s experience of existential structures, their perspectival grappling with the perceptual realities of their existence, the psychological alteration that comes with this ontic awareness, and how the perception of ‘what is’ moves one to revolt against ‘what has been’. The plays are seen as capturing nihilism, what Cunningham calls the unmaking of formed things and the making of formless things. This essay is thus an existential explication of the “speak out” phenomenon as the culmination of a long but unsteady process of existential change which, in both plays, climaxes in the embracing of nihilism. Our inquiry is, therefore, grounded on an existential phenomenological approach derived from Nietzschean and Heideggerian philosophies.

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Juparno Hatta

Secara umum, struktur arsitektur masjid tidak memperlihatkan keseragaman. Nilai lokalitas atau kedaerahan dan pra-islam memberi pengaruh pada beberapa arsitektur masjid tua di Indonesia. Dewasa ini, arsitektur masjid lebih berkembang dengan pola desain yang lebih modern dan unik, sepeti masjid al-Safar. Arsitekturnya yang menyerupai segitiga sebagai konsekuensi desainya yang mengadopsi konsep folding. Tuduhan atau tafsiran arsitektur masjid al-Safar yang tidak islami karena menyerupai objek sakral dari umat Yahadi, yaitu iluminati atau segitiga adalah mitos. Dalam sejarah manusia, benda fisik yang bermakna simbolis atau Yang Sakral dipengaruhi pengalaman hidup atau realitas subyektif manusia. Dua objek simbolis ini, memiliki sejarahnya masing-masing dan diference.Kata Kunci: Aristektur masjid, Masjid Al-Safar, Mitos, SimbolisGenerally, the mosque’s architectural structure does not show uniformity. The locality or provincial and pre-Islamic value gave architecture influence to some ancient mosques in Indonesia. Recently, the mosque’s architecture is well-developed with modern and unique design pattern, such as Al-Safar mosque. Its architecture resembled triangle as its adopted design by folded concept. Accusation or interpretation of Al-Safar mosque which doesn’t represent Islam, whereas its represent the sacred object of Jewish adherent, which is illuminati or triangle is a myth. In human history, this physical object symbolically related or the Most Sacred affected by life experience or subjective human reality. These two symbols, have their own differences and history.Keywords: Mosque Architecture, Al-Safar Mosque, Myth, Symbolic


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 12-21
Author(s):  
Eka Raj Adhikari

The present study has explored the motivational factors to join the vocational training programs among persons with disabilities in Nepal. Based on the phenomenological approach, I conducted in-depth interviews with purposively selected eight persons with disabilities who had been undergoing short-term vocational training courses. I followed the thematic analysis technique to analyze the data. With the help of major content theories of motivation and the social role theory of gender differences, I discussed the study results. The participants’ expressions revealed that the motivating factors were employment, suitability of training to the type of impairment, utilization of free time, advice from relatives, opportunity to get training for free, personal interest, and a strong desire to do something. The results showed that both extrinsic and intrinsic factors were functioning as the motivators for the learners. Their perceptions supported the traditional gender-based selection of occupations. The study showed the need to adopt relevant measures to leverage the learners’ motivation for learning throughout the training.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-254
Author(s):  
Nur Setiawati Dewi ◽  
Piyanuch Jittanoon ◽  
Wantanee Wiroonpanich

Background: Parenting talented youths is a challenging task since most talented youths experience role complexities in their lives. Thus, raising talented youths can lead to increased challenges of parenting.Purpose: This study aimed to explore the challenges faced by Javanese Muslim parents in promoting the well-being of talented youths.Methods: A descriptive phenomenological approach was chosen to guide this study. Thirteen Javanese Muslim parents of talented youth (nine men and three women) were recruited using snowball and purposive sampling techniques. The data were obtained by conducting semi-structured interviews and field notes. The collected data were transcribed using verbatim transcription and analyzed using Giorgi’s method of analysis.Results: Three themes were found after data analysis, i.e., challenges coming from the youths, challenges from the community, and the existence of financial constraints in the family. Challenges coming from the youth were related to the oppositional behavior of talented youths and difficulties in managing children’s activities as students and as talented youths. Challenges from the community included low commitment and belittling behavior from teachers or lecturers, ridicule from their neighbors, gender-based discrimination, and the absence of support from the organization. Another theme was related to financial constraints in the family which made it difficult for parents to finance their youth’s education and talent activities.Conclusion: Identifying the actual problems experienced by the talented youths’ parents could help nurses develop appropriate family programs, consider, and incorporate holistic aspects into the programs to obtain optimal results.


Babel ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Merkle

Abstract Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Karl Marx’s third daughter, was a translator of literary and political texts, as well as a political activist. Intertextual references mark her political as well as literary discourse. Learning to love literature under her father’s close supervision, she also assimilated his and Frederick Engels’ political discourse. The resulting worldview, combined with an independent streak, made political activism as well as firm political convictions virtually inevitable, especially with regard to the place of woman in society. To be true to her political convictions, this unconventional Victorian woman chose to translate controversial works of literature with which she could identify, whether or not her reading of these texts conformed exactly to the message their authors had sought to convey. Two foreign-language literary texts in particular talked to her about the problems faced by women in a capitalist society: Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. In her mind, social, i.e., Marxist, revolution would create a social order in which their problems would no longer exist. Whether intentionally or not, Ibsen’s and Flaubert’s discourse lent itself to an interpretation that converged with Eleanor’s thought on the "Woman Question". Eleanor Marx-Aveling’s writngs make intertextual references to these literary texts and to her political philosophy. We argue that the convergence of the author’s and the translator’s thought, even though the convergence may have resulted from some degree of misappropriation, contributed to Eleanor Marx-Aveling’s successful readings and translations of A Doll’s House and Madame Bovary. Résumé Eleanor Marx-Aveling, troisième fille de Karl Marx, était traductrice de textes littéraires et politiques, ainsi qu’activiste politique. Les références intertextuelles marquent son discours politique tout comme son discours littéraire. Ayant acquis le gout de la littérature sous la surveillance étroite de son père, elle assimila également son discours politique et celui de Friedrich Engels. La vision du monde qu’elle développa ainsi, combinée à une propension à l’indépendance, rendait inévitables un activisme politique ainsi que des convictions politiques fermes, en particulier en ce qui concerne la place de la femme dans la société. Par fidelité à ses convictions politiques, cette femme victorienne peu conventionnelle a choisi de traduire des oeuvres littéraires controversées avec lesquelles elle pouvait s’identifier, que sa lecture de ces textes ait été ou non conforme au message que leurs auteurs avaient cherché a transmettre. En particulier, deux textes littéraires en langue étrangère évoquaient pour elle les problèmes que les femmes rencontrent dans une société capitaliste: La maison de poupée d’Henrik Ibsen et Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert. Dans son esprit, la révolution sociale, c’est-a-dire marxiste devait créer un ordre social dans lequel leurs problemes prendraient fin. Intentionnellement ou non, le discours de Flaubert et d’Ibsen se prétait a une interprétation qui allait dans le sens des idées d’Eleanor sur la question de la femme .. Les écrits d’Eleanor Marx-Aveling établissent des références intertextuelles avec ces textes littéraires et sa philosophie politique. Nous soutenons que meme si la convergence entre la pensée de l’auteur et celle de sa traductrice a peut-etre abouti a un certain détournement, elle a néanmoins contribué à la lecture et à la traduction réussies de La maison de poupée et de Madame Bovary, par Eleanor Marx-Aveling.


2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Power Cobbe
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