Feminist Literature: The Path of Arab Women's Struggle | Chapter 6 | Current Progress in Arts and Social Studies Research Vol. 9

This study monitors the reality of the Arab woman writer. It reveals the extent of creative freedom she enjoys under overwhelming prohibitions, and personal experiences in their confrontation with the repression of taboos, presenting their testimonies and suffering. On the other hand, the study reveals the rebellion and audacity of women writers in telling the manifestations of repression in their literary texts, without hesitation or fear of punishment, to break social taboos and breach prohibitions, especially the sex taboo. This is done despite the pursuit and punishment of some women writers, and the attempts of others to hide behind aliases or withdrawal from creative writing. The study reveals how the woman's literary creativity interacts with the taboos of the forbidden Trinity: politics, religion, and sex. It explores how Arab women writers confront their censorship taboos and have used literature as a tool to resist and challenge. It provides insights into the struggles and triumphs of women authors in a patriarchal society. Since she had a share of the prison as the man's share, she was imprisoned and tortured, it was not unusual to contribute to writing in prison literature, where she adds to her suffering as a prisoner her suffering as a persecuted woman in one text: "Feminist Prison Literature."

Feminist literature is the best experience for the woman to extract her rights, restore her deprived freedom through writing, raise her voice, and exercise the freedom of expression that she has been deprived of for so long. She took out her pen and started "talking like Shahrazad", revealing her experiences and desires, and expressing her concerns and pains. In recent years, she is no longer writing to defend what has been stolen from her demanding change and freedom. Writing for her is no longer a defensive device, but an offensive system in which she condemns and retaliates. In her revolutionary feminist narrative, she demonstrated her offensive tendency against all the taboos of the forbidden trinity.

 

Author (s) Details

Lina Sh Hishmeh
The David Yellin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem, Israel.

 

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An Existential Odyssey: A Study of Women Characters in Manju Kapur’s Novels | Book Publisher International

This book analyses the predicament of women characters in the novels of Manju Kapur from an existentialist’s perspective. In this attempt, the author has examined existentialist themes such as freedom, choice, guilt, alienation anxiety and despair. In this study, an attempt has been made to explain the key philosophical ideas of some of the important existential philosophers like Sartre, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Marcel and Camus. The main ideas of these philosophers find an expression in the novels of Manju Kapur. Like the existentialist, Kapur sees man/woman as a free agent who is free to choose his/her action but this freedom is tied with responsibility.
 
The existentialists highlight man’s (no gender bias implied here) existence, his freedom, choice and responsibility in every walk of life. They underlined the facticity’s of life such as anxiety, despair, freedom, and choice. Thy encouraged men/women to face the truth of their lives to realize their individualities. According to the existentialist thinkers, the problems of the modern society can be addressed by the decisions, and choices that man/woman makes as a free and responsible individual.
 
Kapur’s novels mark an important phase in the growth of existential fiction in India. She is essentially an existentialist writer and deals with existential themes. She explores the human predicament and motives responsible for woman’s action. Existential themes such as freedom, choice, guilt, alienation, anxiety, and despair are highlighted in her novels. All her protagonists start their journey with the freedom of choice. They search for new meaning in this quest for self-discovery.
 
This book deals with the works of Manju Kapur from an existentialist perspective. This work is limited to five novels of Kapur, namely, Difficult Daughters, A Married Woman, Home, Immigrant and Custody. The book titled “The Existentialist Predicament of Women Characters in Manju Kapur’s Novels – A Critical Study” critically analyses existentialist issues such as freedom of choice, bad faith, guilt, alienation, anxiety and despair in the novels of Kapur. It is an attempt to study the existentialist predicament of women characters in the novels of Kapur.
 
This book consists of six chapters. In the introductory chapter, the significance of Kapur among Indian women novelists has been highlighted. Chapter two titled “Existentialism: A Philosophical – Literary Perspective” has presented the origin and development of the philosophy of existentialism. The chapter has discussed key philosophical concepts related to existentialism and has also mapped the connection between existentialism and literature.
 
Chapter three titled “Kapur’s Women Characters’ Freedom of Choice and Bad Faith” focuses on the freedom of choice and Bad faith in the novels of Kapur. Chapter four titled “Kapur’s Women Characters’ Guilt and Alienation” concentrates on the themes of guilt and alienation with special reference to the novels of Kapur. Chapter five, titled “Kapur’s Women Characters’ Anxiety and Despair, deals with anxiety and despair in the novels of Kapur. The final chapter is in the form of summing up of the major findings of the study.

Author(s) Details:

Dr. D. N. P. Prema Ponmani,
Department of English, Kristu Jayanti College, K. Narayanapura, Bangalore -560077, Karnataka, India.

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Critical Analysis of Newspaper Fiction from Union Press, Nanyang Zonghui Xinbao | Chapter 10 | Recent Research Advances in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 5

The local newspapers had baihua (colloquial) articles or fiction in their supplements even before 1911 but were comparatively limited in number. After 1919, a great number of newspaper supplements/magazines in the Chinese Mainland in the same period adopted baihua as a medium of expression. What we can expect for fiction from the Union Press in this period 1924-1928 under study was my primary concern when I carried out my research of fiction from the Union Press from 1917 to 1923. Contrary to my expectation, new political developments that took place in the Chinese Mainland coupled with economic decline in Malaya affected the production of Singapore Chinese fiction writing; language change in the Sinophonic world plus the pressures from local newspaper competitors aggravated the sharp situation. In referring to tales of ghosts and foxes, surprisingly in this period under study, Liaozhai and Pu Songling were vividly associated. The Liaozhai imitation carried on with some innovations in scope, especially the fresh appearance of the plot of the black fox and its fur. Other rare demons such as Morning Glory and banana demons are included. It appears that the intention in publishing these stories changed from asserting belief to drawing attention to these parapsychological phenomena. As they are mythological and religious in nature, it legitimatizes the author of this paper to discuss them separately. Since the linguistic styles of wenyan and baihua by that time were getting closer, the emergence of more baihua stories signalled that a new scenario was about to emerge although lagging slightly behind. The wenyan fiction is more traditional or historical, while baihua stories are more contemporary with modern writing techniques. With Lin Qinnan’s translations of Western fiction into wenyan, the gap between wenyan and baihua fictional writings is somewhat narrowed. So, it is logical to consider both forms together for discussion. The majority of stories are about love and marriage, including cross-racial marriages (although these are limited in number). Tragedies often occurred as new women clashed with traditional ethical thinking. War fiction which condemned the cruelty of fighting and disclosed human nature is touching as well. The editors shared their efforts in organizing the stories so that enhancement of meanings could be achieved. This is reflected in the affiliated information published here and there with an intention to explain, e.g., martial skills stories reflected the need for self-defence in all walks of life in the then chaotic China and overseas Chinese communities. The Union Press somehow carried on its innovative spirit in this period. Its innovation extended to some advertisements, which are significant in terms of art and theme. The classification of genre and sub-genre was meticulously rigid all along; after the disruption of the North Expedition, most classifications were abolished and some of the congtan or small talk columns were opened up to include foreign matters, as a result blurring certain distinctions.

Author(s) Details:

Mei-Kao Kow,
Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

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Investigating the Interconnectivity between Feminist Literature and Prison Literature in Hasiba Abd Al-Rahman's Al-Sharnaqa | Chapter 6 | Progress in Language, Literature and Education Research Vol. 3

This division confirms the existence of an crossroads between two main genres Feminist Literature and Lockup Literature along with the approaches and beautiful tools. The exploration for freedom, revelation, admittance of information, revolution against persecution, and devastation of all the forms of authority comprise central points of intersection, that reach their burning point when the writer herself is the convict who lives the occurrence of imprisonment and she reveals her knowledge through writing a narrative text. Penitentiary Literature is a disclosure and a rebellion against suppressive expert, Feminist Literature is still a rebellion and a revolution against manlike norms, including breaking the governmental, social, and conscientious taboos. Prison literature is an consequence of real experiences, and allure authors may have knowledgeable a prison life or grant permission heard about it through the experiences of remainder of something. Social and governmental reality has a connection accompanying Prison literature. It too denounces the tactics of intellectual shock and political oppression, that violate citizen's rights, confine their freedom, and renounce them the ability to express their belief freely.This study suggests calling this type of biography written by specific women writers as "Feminist Penitentiary Literature" and seeks to explain this interconnectivity and prove that the confinement literature that the woman scrawls does not differ in its ideas and features of allure revolutionary content, its beautiful devices and techniques from fathers's prison research. This chapter has developed by inspecting a case study, the novel al-Sharnaqa/ the Swathe by the Syrian woman dramatist, Hasiba 'Abd al-Rahman. The authors of the novel reveal the woman's uncovering to repressive proofs. In return, the study reveals the woman's attempts to rebel against these impediments in her quest for freedom, and audacity to penetrate the prohibited trinity.

Author(s) Details:

Lina Al-Sheikh-Hishmeh,
The David Yellin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem, Israel.

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Liberating Intelligence: The Most Powerful Dimension of Creative Intelligence | Chapter 3 | Contemporary Perspective on Science, Technology and Research Vol. 1

 The basic aim of this study is to focal point the need for humanity to reach a athletic, mature and harmonious creative judgment, paying special consideration to its liberating measure. The origin concerning this article was my discovery of the artistic freedom of reality. I realised, as a great gift, that existence could be nothing but clean freedom. It was an insight into the evidence that reality cannot be encompassed or contingent upon any form of information, theory or model. Reality never repeats itself entirely but always surprises us with allure ceaseless advance towards novelty. Before I understood that the power of creative freedom is worldwide intelligence, human intelligence being a intentional form of it. Hence, I characterise human wit by its five creative capacities (interest in reality, semiotic communication, helpful integral symbiosism generalised research and freedom) and allure three dimensions (working, axiological and liberating). I focus mainly on liberating intelligence and contemplation the research of liberating knowledge.

Author(s) Details:

Jaume Agustí-Cullell,
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain.

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The Future of Intelligence Lies in Its Social Flourishing | Chapter 5 | Research Highlights in Science and Technology Vol. 4

 We try to present an answer to the following question. What endure we take account of when designing and utilizing AI systems so they help the development of the philosophically embodied human brilliance on which human fulfilment depends? Speculations proliferate on the potential and influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically "Superintelligence," which is represented as a promising challenge by few and a terrifying menace by remainder of something. To traverse these talks without suitable bogged down in the complications and uncertainties of AI, we must continue their original simplicity, their beginning. That is, all technosciences are founded on a fundamental creative capacity that we all share: human intelligence. As a result, I offer a enlightening and humanistic outlook to intelligence in this place paper.  I contend that the current challenge to intelligence is not in allure artificial progress, but in its public embodiment and flourishing. The danger should be the decline of human wit, not the rise of'super-inventive' machines.  We believe that calculatings do not understand anything: AI methods merely estimate. We should design and use AI wholes in such a way that they enhance the development of socially incorporate human intelligence, that is essential for human fulfillment. My basic goal search out emphasize the importance of benevolence living from a condition of healthy, mature, and congenial creative judgment. This, I believe, is the secret to truly representative peaceful civilizations, that I call creative democracies. Creative democracies are public manifestations of imaginative intelligence. The underlying capacity of the people is a shapely and mature creative judgment.

Author(s) Details:

Jaume Agusti-Cullell,
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, CSIC Higher Council for Scientific Research, Spain.

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Tourism and Development in the Senian Context in Aruba: Does It Help or Hurt SIDS? | Chapter 9 | Modern Perspectives in Economics, Business and Management Vol. 1

 Since the closure of its oil refinery in 1986 and the recognition of Aruba's status within the Dutch Kingdom, tourism development has been a vital role in the island's economic growth. Many tiny island independent states and those classified as small non-independent jurisdictions (SNIJs), such as Aruba, rely heavily on tourism. The purpose of this article is to investigate whether and how tourism aids or hinders island development. The economic repercussions of tourism have been researched around the globe; however, we chose to focus on one destination, Aruba, and contextualise our findings by comparing them to other Caribbean islands. This is because tourism is more essential to the Caribbean in terms of economic dependency and tourism intensity. Aruba is an attractive case study because of its high tourism density and mono-economical development paradigm. 1 Our method is based on an ontological investigation of the relationship between tourism and economic development, which uses a contextualised understanding of development in line with Amartya Sen's philosophical perspective. In that setting, prosperity was measured not just in terms of GDP growth, but also in terms of better social welfare for its population and distance from Senian unfreedom. For the sake of this article, unfreedom is defined as the inability to shift paradigms despite the fact that the current paradigm promotes vulnerability, fragility, and limits options for its population. As a result, despite its economic impact in terms of foreign cash, investments, and jobs, tourism has considerable and widespread externalities that should be included when considering the total impact of tourism on economic and social development.

Author (S) Details

Don Taylor
University of Aruba, Oranjestad, Aruba.

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Monitoring the Upgraded Democracy Adjusted for the 21st Century | Chapter 5 | New Horizons in Education and Social Studies Vol. 7

 The author explores how Democracy, the world's leading system of government, blends with the immense changes that have occurred in the world in the 21st century. Technology induces many changes that have often arisen before individuals and their organisations are able to digest them and competently. The author proposes several approaches and models to help nations carry out the initiative to revise and develop their running systems. The author offers a two-aspect methodology, built from conceptual and psychological approaches, to carry out this task. They are: the philosophical side of the brain-the objective way of thought, and the psychological approach, reflecting the emotions of the inner self-the emotional strategy against real events. This two-aspect approach allows one to evaluate and understand political affairs as well. The principal path and the political establishment objectives would remain elusive and vague without a general philosophical observation. The motives, motors, and human concerns can not be appreciated without a psychological awareness of the participants, both leaders and followers. The picture acknowledged and the information gained are much more complete and important by using these two complementary approaches.

Author(s) Details

Amos Avny

Omnidev International, Yehud, Israel.

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