Papers by Prof. Dr. Azhar Noori Fejer
All material contained within the thesis, including without limitation text, logos, icons, photog... more All material contained within the thesis, including without limitation text, logos, icons, photographs and all other artwork, is copyright material of Universiti Putra Malaysia unless otherwise stated. Use may be made of any material contained within the thesis for non-commercial purposes from the copyright holder. Commercial use of material may only be made with the express, prior, written permission of Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences, 2018
Witch stories are part of American popular culture, and this culture is extremely influenced ... more Witch stories are part of American popular culture, and this culture is extremely influenced by a continuing reliance on its past. The modern obsession of Americans with witches, whether real or metaphorical, is related to politics especially when it came to issues of gender politics. This article exposes a modern image of the female character seen from a male author point of view. John Updike, influenced by the changes that happened to women within second wave of feminism, attempted to write The Witches of Eastwick (1984). Actually, he presented women who did have a sort of careers. His witches are professional active and dynamic. What do witches stand for in American Culture? Why did Updike choose to write about women? Why were these females witches and not ordinary women? This is the core discussion of the present study.
ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2020
The eventual attacks of 9/11in America, on The World Trade Center at Ground Zero, had changed the... more The eventual attacks of 9/11in America, on The World Trade Center at Ground Zero, had changed the world and brought disastrous problems to a lot of civilians. Many people lost their lives; others were traumatized and suffered a disordered life. The disastrous event revealed the hidden aspects of the States and its assistants-the soldiers and copes. Studying the relationship between the psyche of individuals and their outside world is the core of this paper. The project investigates the reasons behind acting out trauma and its impact on individuals and society. The sociocultural approach applied helps in examining the behavior of the individuals through their reactions to the event of 9/11. Ken Kalfus's A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2007), is analyzed according to the psychologist, Cathy Caruth's trauma theory and the sociologist, Kia Erikson's theory of cultural trauma. The novel deals with both kinds of trauma; psychic and cultural. It examines the behavior of ...
The publication of John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick (1984) made the author subject to much a... more The publication of John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick (1984) made the author subject to much attacks and hostility. Feminists saw the book to be greatly offensive towards modern women. The three witches in the novel are depicted as carefree, malicious and murderers. Actually, this modern image of women varies significantly from the traditional ‘True Woman’ image that was predominant in American culture for a quite long time. This thesis traces the development in the female character in the works of four selected American authors between the years 1850s – 1980. The female characters were not notable before the 1850s. Generally, the predominant images were the good and the bad; hence, the American female character remained a stereotype. A steady deviation happened in the depiction of this character; the old, feeble, subordinate, passive woman was substituted with a strong, dominant, and sometimes daring figure. The study reveals that the deviation in the depiction of the female cha...
African-American writers during the 19th century wrote in the shadow of the prominent romance, se... more African-American writers during the 19th century wrote in the shadow of the prominent romance, sentimental, and domestic fiction. Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig (1859) reflects an “alternative social character”, for the female protagonist suffers racism in the free North, because she is a mulatto child. Through depicting the life of free blacks, who supposedly lives a better life than Southern slaves, Wilson exposes how she has actually lived and sensed life in antebellum America. According to Raymond Williams (2011), there are two kinds of literary writings. The first represents the general tendency of the age, and he calls it “dominant social character”; representing the majority content of both the public writing and speaking. But, another different literary writing lives in its shadow; one that usually leads the conflicts of the time. It is the “alternative social character”; the literature of the victims of repression and marginalization, produced by the lower class, women, and black...
SAGE Open, 2014
Individual mobility is an outcome of the rapid changes in life; it is revealed in particular lite... more Individual mobility is an outcome of the rapid changes in life; it is revealed in particular literary works within the end of the 19th century. Mobility is clearer in modern time as the individual has become physically freer in his movement. But the individual’s freedom is often conditioned by restrictions. Usually, change stimulates individuals to obtain new structure of feeling; the individual mocks or rages against institutions, or he would comply, suffering rapid personal deterioration as he faces effective stability or institutions. There is a continuous sense of “deadlock.” Sylvia Plath’s novel reflects the depression of an intellectual young woman who fails to find her right path muddled by an inconsistent, confusing world around. The opposing ideas and standards imposed on women depress and alienate the protagonist from the world leading her to an eventual attempt at suicide. The variable values the character has to adjust, the protagonist’s reaction toward these values, and her sense of “dead lock” are the subject of the present article.
The International Journal of Literary Humanities, 2019
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Papers by Prof. Dr. Azhar Noori Fejer