Arabic Literature

Application of Ecofeminism in the Analysis of the Poetry of Suzan Alaywan and Golrokhsar Safi Ava

Jafar Tahmasbi; Mahin Hajizadeh; Abdolahad Gheibi; Hamid Valizadeh

Volume 16, Issue 1 , March 2024, , Pages 23-45

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.353574.612633

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The term eco-critique or ecological critique was coined by William Rueckert in 1978, and this stream of critique and vision was a late reaction to the literature in the face of the ... Read More

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Meaningful Use of the View in the Cinematic Compositions of the Novel “I Lead You to My Other” by Aicha Arnaout

Mahin Hajizadeh; Abdolahad Gheibi; Amir Farhangdust

Volume 15, Issue 1 , March 2023, , Pages 61-84

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2022.339781.612519

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From the period when cinematic screenplays took on a dramatic course, fiction and literature greatly influenced screenplays, but from the 1980s onwards, cinema influenced fiction and ... Read More

A Comparative Study of Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Seddigheh Hoseini; Mahin Hajizadeh; Hamid Valizadeh

Volume 12, Issue 1 , March 2020, , Pages 23-46

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.268460.611985

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The term hypertextuality refers to any form of adaptation; therefore, in literature, this term expresses the relations between texts. The novel Frankenstein in Baghdad written by Ahmed ... Read More The term hypertextuality refers to any form of adaptation; therefore, in literature, this term expresses the relations between texts. The novel Frankenstein in Baghdad written by Ahmed Saadawi, an Iraqi novelist, is influenced by Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus in that the signs of the cleared layers of Shelley’s hypotext can be seen in Sadawi’s hypertext. This leads to a palimpsestuous relation between the two texts. In the field of hypertextuality, the term palimpsest refers to any type of adaptation in which the layers of the original text can be seen in the adapted text. This process, which is named transformation, takes place through a purposeful change made in the hypertext without any imitation of it. The transformation and extension of meaning in the hypotext is done through transposition, which refers to the drastic changes made to the hypotext. It is possible, however, to detect parody of the hypotext, such as practice of transvestism, in Saadawi’s novel. Yet, parody is not the entire hypertextual relation between the two texts. This study analyzes the transformational relation between some features of the contents of the two texts and the changes made to the hypertext in the form of transposition. Transposition makes profound changes in many of the dimensions of Shelley’s novel without interpreting it. Titles, names, places, themes, symbols, language, religion, and beliefs are some of the items that are transposed in Saadawi’s novel. The appearance of the character Frankenstein in Saadawi’s novel causes the emergence of different cultural and social symbols and signs. The difference between the language of the novels and the difference between places are vivid examples of transposition that explain the spectral presence of Frankenstein in the hypertext, the dominant atmosphere of the hypertext, and how the past causes the absence of meaning with its presence.

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Author = Mahin Hajizadeh

Application of Ecofeminism in the Analysis of the Poetry of Suzan Alaywan and Golrokhsar Safi Ava

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Meaningful Use of the View in the Cinematic Compositions of the Novel “I Lead You to My Other” by Aicha Arnaout

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A Comparative Study of Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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