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Diaspora, Literature, and Writing of Afghan Lives in Iran
More than three generations of Afghan people have migrated all over the world. Countries like Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, as well as Western countries like the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany, have been their targets. This book is about what the origin of the diaspora is, what the definition of diaspora is, how the concept of diaspora came into being in the 20th and 21st centuries, and the different types of diasporas. For clarity, the most important concepts of diaspora such as “otherness”, “acculturation”, “cultural diversity”, “hybridity”, “ambivalence”, “mimicry”, “belonging”, and “return” are considered and defined. Against this background, the book focuses on the Afghan diaspora in different parts of the world and Iran in particular. The final part of this book offers some short accounts of Afghan lives in Iran, providing practical examples of diaspora studies.
Acculturation, Otherness, and Return in Adichie’s Americanah
The idea of “diaspora” is an everyday concept for many people around the world who have left their homeland voluntarily or by force with the hope of making a new home in another place. In recent years, academics have used this term to reference conflating categories such as immigrants, ethnic and racial minorities, and refugees. This book examines the concepts of diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013). Americanah tells the story of a smart young girl named Ifemelu who leaves Nigeria for America in search of higher education. In America, she faces several problems before graduating from college. This book investigates Americanah through diasporic concepts such as self and Otherness, acculturation, cultural diversity, hybridity, ambivalence and mimicry, unbelonging and return.
Asian Women from Different Perspectives
With the entrance of women to different areas of academic, education, industry and even military forces, their status has changed in the society. That is why along with their maternal and motherhood roles, they have faced with social roles as well. These changes have persuaded scholars to start investigation over women's problem with scientific outlook by avoiding bias observation. They have examined difficulties of women's life through theoretical framework and prevent their move towards emancipation based on temporary belief. This book is the collection of eleven articles which have investigated Asian women's status from different perspectives in literature, sociology and Geography.
Reframing Translators, Translators as Reframers
This collection explores the notion of reframing as a framework for better understanding the multi-agent and multi-level nature of the translation process, generating new conversations in current debates on translational agency, authority, and power. The volume puts forward reframing as an alternative metaphor to traditional conceptualizations and descriptions of translation, which often position the process in such terms as transformation, reproduction, transposition, and transfer. Chapters in the book reflect on the translator figure as a central agent in actively moving a translated text to a new context, and the translation process as shaped by different forces and subjectivities when tr...
Whistling in the Dark
Whistling in the Dark: Twenty-one Queer Interviews focuses on issues like sexuality, sexual identity, marriage, gay marriage, heteronormativity, gay utopia, gay activism, gay bashing, police atrocities and the laws vis-à-vis these. The interviewees represent a cross section of society ranging from university professors, gay rights activists and students, on the one hand, to working class men such as office boys, auto-rickshaw drivers and even undertrials who have served prison sentences, on the other. The thought-provoking narratives in this book are the outcome of probing and incisive questions put to the respondents by the editors R. Raj Rao and Dibyajyoti Sarma. Appealing to a wide readership, the narratives go beyond the conventional and provide a rare insight into the private lives of the respondents. Besides being a must read for gay activists and organisations, the book will also be a useful resource for post-graduate students and academics working in the fields of sexuality studies, feminism and alternative literature.
Vozes e letras
A literatura medieval e renascentista tem sido considerada como sendo muito homogénea quanto à sua discursividade; mas um olhar atento e sensível pode revelar desvios e particularidades interessantes. Das cantigas galego-portuguesas ao teatro de Gil Vicente, ao Cancioneiro Geral e a Camões, o recurso a vozes individuais, que se articulam em perspectivas discordantes e que fazem ouvir disposições por vezes conflituais, suscita formas polifónicas e subjectividades inesperadas que conferem aos textos estéticas próprias. Os trabalhos reunidos no presente volume evidenciam a importância de tais fenómenos e os nexos da polifonia literária com o problema de a autoria demonstrar traços individuais, com a influência dos contextos socioculturais e poetológicos e com a relevância da realização plurimedial.
Ottoman Women
Guided by the accounts of such female travellers as Lady Montagu, Julia Pardoe, and Lucy Garnett, all of whom lived in Ottoman lands for significant periods of time, this beautifully illustrated book explores -- and hopes to overturn -- the 19th-century stereotypes of Ottoman women. Both Eastern and Western accounts of Turkish society during that time made much of the harem, with the Orientalists describing Turkish women as exotic, indolent, and depraved, while some European writers described them as noble and elegant. Then, with the advent of the first women's movement in the West, the harem began to be criticised as an institution that trapped women and enforced their submission to men. All of these ideas were refuted by Montagu, Pardoe, and Garnett, who argued that Ottoman women were perhaps the freest in the world; this book backs up that claim with historical research showing that women frequently prevailed in cases against their husbands and other male relatives in the Ottoman courts.
Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
This landmark volume introduces the new series of proceedings from the Viktor Frankl Institute, dedicated to preserving the past, disseminating the present, and anticipating the future of Franklian existential psychology and psychotherapy, i.e. logotherapy and existentialanalysis . Wide-ranging contents keep readers abreast of current ideas, findings, and developments in the field while also presenting rarely-seen selections from Frankl’s work. Established contributors report on new applications of existential therapies in specific (OCD, cancer, end-of-life issues) and universal (the search for meaning) contexts as well as intriguing possibilities for opening up dialogue with other schools...
