Tag: Identity

Memory and Identity in Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Author: Nidhu Kumar Dhar, Assam University, India Email: nidhudhar1@gmail.com Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.07 Citation: Dhar, N. K. (2023). Memory and Identity in Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.07 Abstract Haruki Murakami introduces a wide array of issues and topics in his fiction; …

Television as a Tool of Memory and Identity in Khaled Hosseini’s Novels
Authors: Priya Meena, Delhi Technological University, India Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi, Delhi Technological University, India Email: priya1996meena@gmail.com Published: August 16, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.04 Citation: Meena, P., & Dwivedi, R. R. (2023). Television as a Tool of Memory and Identity in Khaled Hosseini’s Novels. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.10.1.04 Abstract Globalization epitomizes the convergence of …

Now Published: Volume 8 – Issue 1 – IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies: Volume 8 – Issue 1 Editor-in-Chief: Holger Briel, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), China Published: July 5, 2023 ISSN: 2187-4905 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.8.1 Dear Readers, Welcome to the summer 2023 issue of IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies. As the world is slowly digging itself out of the …

Welcome to Volume 8 Issue 1 of the IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies
Dear Readers, As the world is slowly digging itself out of the COVID crisis, a return to normalcy is wished for by many, but far from possible. The Russian war against Ukraine, continuing strife in Sudan and emergencies in many other countries make it hard to catch one’s breath. This IJCS issue cannot do much …

Cultural Identity and Historical Nostalgia in Animated Film
Authors: Jae-Eun Oh, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Yuet Kai Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Cedric van Eenoo, Independent Scholar Email: publications@iafor.org Published: July 5, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.8.1.02 Citation: Oh, J.-E., Chan, Y. K., & van Eenoo, C. (2023). Cultural Identity and Historical Nostalgia in Animated Film. IAFOR Journal of Cultural …

IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies: Volume 8 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies: Volume 8 – Issue 1 Editor-in-Chief: Holger Briel, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), China Published: July 5, 2023 ISSN: 2187-4905 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.8.1 Editor’s Introduction Welcome to this issue of the IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Holger Briel, Editor-in-Chief, IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Articles “Still Watching …

Imagined Communities of English Use in JET Programme Teaching Materials
Author: Charles Allen Brown, Purdue University, United States Email: bairenyuan@yahoo.com Published: May 31, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ije.11.1.04 Citation: Brown, C. A. (2023). Imagined Communities of English Use in JET Programme Teaching Materials. IAFOR Journal of Education, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ije.11.1.04 Abstract Visualizing oneself joining imagined communities of target language (TL) use represents a potent motivation for language study. Given that rationales …

Cultural Expectations and Gendered Roles: Identity Formations in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland
Author: Damini Bhattacharya, University of Southampton, UK Email: d.bhattacharya117@gmail.com Published: December 31, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.05 Citation: Bhattacharya, D. (2022). Cultural Expectations and Gendered Roles: Identity Formations in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.05 Abstract Individual identities are not only a summation of one’s unique choices and experiences, but are also …

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 9 – Issue 2
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 9 – Issue 2 Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García-Osuna Hofstra University and The City University of New York, United States Published: December 31, 2022 ISSN: 2187-0616 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2 Articles Is an Explanation a Reason? Paul Rastall, Independent Academic, UK Cartographies of Difference: Inventing Difference in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow …

Editor’s Introduction
Welcome to the IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities – Volume 9 – Issue 1 Most of the authors that have contributed to this issue demonstrate a grounding on a critical model whose imprint on the major areas of humanist analysis is uncontested: feminist theory. Thus, several articles may seem to present similar types of …

Gender Roles and Perceptions: The Refugee Experience and Political Agency in Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Against the Loveless World
Author: Farhan Ahmad, Akal University, India Email: farhan_eng@auts.ac.in Published: July 29, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.04 Citation: Ahmad, F. (2022). Gender Roles and Perceptions: The Refugee Experience and Political Agency in Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Against the Loveless World. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.04 Abstract The present study analyses the …

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 9 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 9 – Issue 1 Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García-Osuna Hofstra University and The City University of New York, United States Published: July 29, 2022 ISSN: 2187-0616 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1 Introduction Welcome to this issue of the IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Most of the authors that have contributed to …

Exile and the Disabled Body in Randa Jarrar’s “The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Zelwa the Halfie”
Authors: Shahd Alshammari, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait Yasmeen Al-Askari, Independent Academic, Kuwait Email: Published: August 25, 2021 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.8.1.05 Citation: Alshammari, S., & Al-Askari, Y. (2021). Exile and the Disabled Body in Randa Jarrar’s “The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Zelwa the Halfie”. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.8.1.05 Abstract This …

Welcome to Volume 10 – Issue 1 – IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship
It is our great pleasure and my personal honour as the editor-in-chief to introduce Volume 10 Issue 1 of the IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship. This issue is a selection of papers received through open submissions directly to our journal. This is already the fourth issue of the journal I have edited; once more …

Mapping Spaces, Identities, and Ideologies in The Parisian (2019)
Author: Fadwa Kamal Abdel Rahman, Ain Shams University, Egypt Published: July 28, 2021 Email: fabdelrahman@yahoo.com https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.10.1.07 Citation: Rahman, F. K. A. (2021). Mapping Spaces, Identities, and Ideologies in The Parisian (2019). IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.10.1.07 Abstract The Parisian (2019) is Isabella Hammad’s debut novel. It provides a dynamic spatial representation of …

IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 10 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 10 – Issue 1 Editor-in-Chief: Bernard Montoneri, Taipei, Taiwan Co-Editor: Rachel Franks, University of Newcastle, Australia Published: July 28, 2021 ISSN: 2187-0608 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.10.1 Editor’s Introduction Welcome to Volume 10 – Issue 1 – IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship Dr Bernard Montoneri, Editor-in-Chief Articles Plastic (in) Paradise: Karen …

Negotiating Identity: Sexuality and Gender in Olumide Popoola’s When We Speak of Nothing (2017)
Author: Nurayn Fola Alimi, University of Lagos, Nigeria Email: fnurayn@unilag.edu.ng Published: December 24, 2019 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.8.1.01 Citation: Alimi, N. F. (2019). Negotiating Identity: Sexuality and Gender in Olumide Popoola’s When We Speak of Nothing (2017). IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.8.1.01 Abstract “Sexuality” and “gender” are two cultural indexes regarded by gender and culture …

Colonial Administrative Integration of African Territories: Identity and Resistance in Nigeria’s Southern Cameroons, 1922–1961
Author: Reymond Njingti Budi, The University of Bamenda, Cameroon Email: budzi54@yahoo.com Published: June 26, 2019 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.6.1.09 Citation: Budi, R. N. (2019). Colonial Administrative Integration of African Territories: Identity and Resistance in Nigeria’s Southern Cameroons, 1922–1961. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.6.1.09 Abstract British administrative policy in Africa, and particularly in Cameroon, was generally …

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 6 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 6 – Issue 1 Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García Osuna, Hofstra University, United States of America Published: June 26, 2019 ISSN: 2187-0616 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.6.1 Articles Alternative Facts: The Shifting Realities of Community, Media and Public Opinion Mark Lukasiewicz, Hofstra University, USA The Framework of Subjectivity as Object of Consciousness …

The Whys and Wherefores of Spain’s Current Political Crisis: Catalonia… Again
Author: Michael Strubell, formerly from Open University of Catalonia, Spain Email: m_strubell@yahoo.com Published: April 6, 2019 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.4.1.02 Citation: Strubell, M. (2019). The Whys and Wherefores of Spain’s Current Political Crisis: Catalonia… Again. IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.4.1.02 Abstract In recent years the media have been full of dramatic headlines on Catalonia. At the …

Spain: For Catalonia!
Authors: Christoph Menke, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Alexander Garcia Düttmann, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany Email: a.garciaduettmann@udk-berlin.de Published: April 6, 2019 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.4.1.01 Citation: Menke, C., & Düttmann, A. G. (2019). Spain: For Catalonia! IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.4.1.01 Abstract When does the confrontation between the government in Barcelona and the government in …

IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies: Volume 4 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies: Volume 4 – Issue 1 Editor: Professor Holger Briel, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Published: April 6, 2019 ISSN: 2187-4905 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.4.1 Articles Spain: For Catalonia! Christoph Menke, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany Alexander Garcia Düttmann, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany The Whys and Wherefores of Spain’s Current Political Crisis: Catalonia… Again …