Category: LibrAsia2017
Forced Departures and Fragmented Realities in Palestinian Memoirs
The Arabic word nakba means “catastrophe”. The Palestinians use this word to refer to the events that took place in …
Prisms of History: Edward Said’s Humanism
The winding history of the Israeli-Arab dispute along with divergent historical, geopolitical and theological interpretations should be complicated for one …
Femininity and Masculinity in Twenty-First Century Thai Romantic Fictions
The main purpose of this study is to examine the modes of subjectivity and discourses of femininity and masculinity found …
“Only When the Whole World Becomes One Family”: The Ideal Vision of a Eurasian
My paper benefits from Lisa Lowe's idea of heterogeneity and multiplicity, Foucault's notion of power, and Gramsci's concept of hegemony. …
Resistance in Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories
Loss of identity is one of the major problems of all time. People who believe that domination destroy their true …
Humans and Animals in the Graphic Novel the Call of the Wild from the Perspective of Ecocriticism Reading
Nowadays, environmental crisis is one of the most important problems. Many people are affected by this crisis. Graphic novels can …
Annette Von Droste-Huelshoff and the Biedermeier Narrative
"Annette von Droste-Huelshoff and the Biedermeier Narrative" relates the aesthetics of the German Biedermeier period (1815-1848) to the life story …
History in Fiction or Fiction in History: Enchi Fumiko’s Namamiko Monogatari as Historical Novel
While Hayden White asserts that historical discourses mirror literary writing, he also recognizes the value of narrativity in historical representations …
The Presentation of Rape in Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak
With the raising number of reported rape cases, rape becomes one of the crucial social problems in worldwide. Mostly, women …
Storytelling and Playing with History: The Ludic in French and Chinese Fiction
This paper explores how the device of storytelling can be used in fiction to construct a specifically ludic i.e. playful …
Ned Kelly: The Multiple Truths of Australia’s Most Famous Bushranger
In a line-up of all the Australian criminals, who sparked fear in the community and generated business for the law …
Folktales, Myths and Legends on Sculptors of South India
History speaks on sculptures and silent on sculptors; whereas folktales take contradictory position towards this phenomenon. The folktales, Myths and …
‘It Was As Silly As All Women’s Stories’: Female’s Marginalisation and the Duality of Gender in the 20th Century West African Novel
When the simple act of talking is considered ‘silly’, or worst ‘madness’, here we should stop and look back at …
Ambiguous Japan: A Study on Four Lectures of Nobel Prize Winner Kenzaburo Oe
In 1994, Kenzaburō Ōe, second Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, entitled his Nobel Lecture “Japan, the …