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Cosmopolitanism Barriers in Samira Ahmed's Love, Hate and other Filters \2018\
2024
This study explores how racism represents an obstacle to any citizen to become a cosmopolitan in multicultural societies. Anti-racism fiction in Anglophone literature is the area of this study by exploring Samira Ahmed's narrative Love, Hate and Other Filters. Ahmed portrays in her debut novel how the brown, feminist, Indian-American, Muslim protagonist faces different types of discrimination in American society. Described as brown in a white society, she suffers from color discrimination. As a female, she suffers from the patriarchal authority that restricts her freedom. Moreover, she faces islamophobia as an Indian Muslim living in America. To clarify this, the research has been conducted in a qualitative method using descriptive methodology, mainly depending on textual analysis through a close reading of post- 9/11 fictional text narrated by a woman. Muslim women immigrants' trauma of Islamophobia, colorism and sexism in Western societies will be examined by the feminist Indian-American, Muslim, immigrant novelist who addresses the issue of the relationship between cosmopolitanism and these different categories of racism in fiction and how these three encounters of racism act as a barrier to cosmopolitanism. Ahmed's goal is to convince the reader to regularly try to live as a cosmopolitan and communicate with others.
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Alienation in Susan Darraj's the Inheritance of Exile
2024
This article aims to investigate how two dimensions of Melvin Seeman's taxonomy of alienation are portrayed in Susan Darraj's The Inheritance of Exile. Seeman's study \"On the Meaning of Alienation\" discusses the concept of alienation from a social perspective, and postulates six basic patterns of alienation. Upon studying and analyzing Darraj's diasporic text, it becomes clear that two of Seeman's aspects, namely cultural estrangement and social isolation, appear in Darraj's text through narrating the lives of four Palestinian immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters. The study follows the analytical method through the area of diasporic fiction. It presents the theoretical framework, and then applies the two mentioned dimensions of alienation to Darraj's text from the perspective of feeling alienated from the homeland (Palestine) and the host land (Philadelphia) regarding mothers and their daughters. Thus, the study proves that Darraj has succeeded in portraying and revealing the manifestations, causes and consequences of the alienation of Arabs who live and grow up in a host country such as the United States of America.
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Is there any Way Out?
2023
Via a qualitative methodological approach, this article uses hermeneutic phenomenology to study how the two narratives Exit West and The Last White Man reflect and reinforce the way an alienated nonwhite literary man can escape his suffering and humiliation in a white Western society. It interprets what forces this colored man to imagine inanities as the only way to escape. It explores how these fictional texts help the reader understand many key issues like escapism, racism, migration and alienation throughout narrative hermeneutics. It elaborates on how the British Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid,s ordinary routine and personal interest and concern affect his understanding and interpretation of society and how these understanding and tieretereretni are also related to the reader,s daily experiences and responses. In addition, this study shows how the rhetorical triangle as well as the hermeneutic circle are necessary to interpret and understand the meaning of the text.
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