Papers by Marwa F AlKhayat
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Print), Jul 1, 2023
Interdisciplinary & transcultural topics in Humanities & social sciences 1 ranscultural Journal f... more Interdisciplinary & transcultural topics in Humanities & social sciences 1 ranscultural Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences (TJHSS) is a journal committed to disseminate a new range of interdisciplinary and transcultural topics in Humanities and social sciences. It is an open access, peer reviewed and refereed journal, published by Badr University in Cairo, BUC, to provide original and updated knowledge platform of international scholars interested in multi-inter disciplinary researches in all languages and from the widest range of world cultures. It's an online academic journal that offers print on demand services. TJHSS Aims and Objectives: To promote interdisciplinary studies in the fields of Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences and provide a reliable academically trusted and approved venue of publishing Language and culture research.
Wadī Al-Nīl Lil Dirāsāt wa Al-Buẖūṯ Al-Insāniyyaẗ wa Al-Iğtimāʿiyyaẗ wa Al-Tarbawiyyaẗ, Oct 1, 2020
The present study is an attempt to fill in a gap in Ecocriticism which until recently has focused... more The present study is an attempt to fill in a gap in Ecocriticism which until recently has focused on literature defined as Nature Writing; poetry, fiction and drama. Yet, with the move toward ecocritical Film Studies, there is a place for work on animated feature films. The premise of the study is the ethical and environmental implications as exemplified in the two selected enviro-toons: Disney's Bambi (1942) and Dr. Seuss's The Lorax (1972). The depiction of wilderness and the representation of nonhuman animals provide a rich context to investigate ideology and power to explore oppressive practices of contemporary societies. The selected enviro-toons strongly articulate ecological crisis; hunting, species loss, pollution, deforestation and overproduction. The Lorax exposes overconsumption that is driven by the capitalism's profit motive and the pro-industrial character the Once-ler's "jobsjobs-jobs" rhetoric. On the other hand, Bambi stands for a romanticized environment with the perspective that marks nature as an ecological sublime since the wilderness trope is worthy of awe and wonder. The peculiar language of animation is deliberately defined by multiple distinctions.
Jurnal Humaniora, 2018
The current study is a postmodern appraisal of Bob Dylan’s artistic career and vocal gestures to ... more The current study is a postmodern appraisal of Bob Dylan’s artistic career and vocal gestures to examine the way melody in popular music works in relation to speech and singing, the grand and the ordinary. It historicizes Bob Dylan’s protest music of the 1960s within the paradigm of folk music culture. Dylan’s music is full of riffs, blues sequences, and pentatonic melodies—all heavily part and parcel of blues, folk, gospel, and country music. It is the music that dwells on the pleasures of repetition, of circularity, and of the recurring familiar tune integrated within Dylanesque poetics of rhyme delivered with his idiosyncratic, deep and intense range of voices. Dylan is the official son of the legacies of social, communal, and ritual music-making that mirrors contemporary pop and rock back to folk and blues, street-sung broadsides and work songs, the melodies of medieval troubadours, and the blessed rhythms of Christianity and Judaism. The study is an attempt to illustrate how mu...
Humaniora, Feb 24, 2018
The current study is a postmodern appraisal of Bob Dylan's artistic career and vocal gestures to ... more The current study is a postmodern appraisal of Bob Dylan's artistic career and vocal gestures to examine the way melody in popular music works in relation to speech and singing, the grand and the ordinary. It historicizes Bob Dylan's protest music of the 1960s within the paradigm of folk music culture. Dylan's music is full of riffs, blues sequences, and pentatonic melodies-all heavily part and parcel of blues, folk, gospel, and country music. It is the music that dwells on the pleasures of repetition, of circularity, and of the recurring familiar tune integrated within Dylanesque poetics of rhyme delivered with his idiosyncratic, deep and intense range of voices. Dylan is the official son of the legacies of social, communal, and ritual music-making that mirrors contemporary pop and rock back to folk and blues, street-sung broadsides and work songs, the melodies of medieval troubadours, and the blessed rhythms of Christianity and Judaism. The study is an attempt to illustrate how musicology and ethnomusicology in particular can contribute to understanding Dylan as a 'performing artist' within the postmodern paradigm. Thus, the study seeks to establish Dylan as a phenomenal, prolific postmodernist artist, as well as an anarchist. The power and originality of Dylan's music constitute a prima facie case that his performances should be considered postmodernist art.
Journal of Translation and Language Studies
The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya... more The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya and Kunooz animated TV Series (2022). AVT is quite a unique sub-discipline of Translation Studies (TS) due to its polysemiotic nature in which it functions on verbal, acoustic and visual levels. Within this rationale, the study conducts an interrogation of the verbal auditory or acoustic channel, the non-verbal auditory channel, the verbal visual channel, e.g. written signs on the screen and the non-verbal visual channel. As such, the aim of the study is to scrutinize the constraints and challenges that the AVT translators face during the subtitling process within the paradigm of translation strategies. The present study is carried out within the boundaries of the target-oriented approach developed by Gideon Toury and the foreignization/domestication approaches developed by Lawrence Venuti to interrogate culture-bound characteristics. Foreignization as a translation strategy seems princ...
The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya... more The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya and Kunooz animated TV Series (2022). AVT is quite a unique sub-discipline of Translation Studies (TS) due to its polysemiotic nature in which it functions on verbal, acoustic and visual levels. Within this rationale, the study conducts an interrogation of the verbal auditory channel, the non-verbal auditory channel, the verbal visual channel. As such, the aim of the study is to scrutinize the challenges of the subtitling process within the paradigm of translation strategies. The present study is carried out within the boundaries of the target-oriented methodology developed by Gideon Toury and the foreignization/domestication approaches developed by Lawrence Venuti to interrogate culture-bound characteristics. Foreignization as a translation strategy seems essentially apt for a historical and cultural text to recreate the source text in target language in such a way that the reader or the audience would feel the cultural effect of the source text. The contribution of the research is hopefully twofold. One, it is the first-ever study of Yahay and Kunooz Series in the academia; the other, this study incites additional studies in the future to foster a wide-ranging theoretical frame for AVT.
The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya... more The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya and Kunooz animated TV Series (2022). AVT is quite a unique sub-discipline of Translation Studies (TS) due to its polysemiotic nature in which it functions on verbal, acoustic and visual levels. Within this rationale, the study conducts an interrogation of the verbal auditory channel, the non-verbal auditory channel, the verbal visual channel. As such, the aim of the study is to scrutinize the challenges of the subtitling process within the paradigm of translation strategies. The present study is carried out within the boundaries of the target-oriented methodology developed by Gideon Toury and the foreignization/domestication approaches developed by Lawrence Venuti to interrogate culture-bound characteristics. Foreignization as a translation strategy seems essentially apt for a historical and cultural text to recreate the source text in target language in such a way that the reader or the audience would feel the cultural effect of the source text. The contribution of the research is hopefully twofold. One, it is the first-ever study of Yahay and Kunooz Series in the academia; the other, this study incites additional studies in the future to foster a wide-ranging theoretical frame for AVT.
Interdisciplinary & transcultural topics in Humanities & social sciences 1 ranscultural Journal f... more Interdisciplinary & transcultural topics in Humanities & social sciences 1 ranscultural Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences (TJHSS) is a journal committed to disseminate a new range of interdisciplinary and transcultural topics in Humanities and social sciences. It is an open access, peer reviewed and refereed journal, published by Badr University in Cairo, BUC, to provide original and updated knowledge platform of international scholars interested in multi-inter disciplinary researches in all languages and from the widest range of world cultures. It's an online academic journal that offers print on demand services. TJHSS Aims and Objectives: To promote interdisciplinary studies in the fields of Languages, Humanities and Social Sciences and provide a reliable academically trusted and approved venue of publishing Language and culture research.
Women's Studies, Nov 29, 2022
This paper aims to investigate the translation of address terms between Arabic and English. Those... more This paper aims to investigate the translation of address terms between Arabic and English. Those terms belong to different systems in both languages. Certain characteristics of an address term in one culture tend to be lost when translated into another. Therefore, politeness theory will be used in order to find out whether the politeness intended by using an address term is transferred into the target language or not. For this study, a number of address terms are selected from a novel, Madiq Alley. Those terms are delivered to a number of subjects in a questionnaire. The analysis points out the use of such systems and how each system applies different politeness strategies to show respect and deference. The findings indicate that some patterns of face-work are lost in the translation process and that the relational terms of address are more challenging to translate than the absolute ones.
Arab Studies Quarterly
The present article examines a narrative of darkness to illuminate the rhetoric of haunting and m... more The present article examines a narrative of darkness to illuminate the rhetoric of haunting and monstrosity. Gothicity evokes a sense of indeterminateness and it dramatizes disruptive incorporeal occurrences as interrogated in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, a war Frankenfiction. It stages horror to chronicle national disintegration through the rise of a sewn-together zombie to mark the appalling arrival of the Iraqi dissenter. The new twenty-first-century monster is a zombie to defy marginality and to associate monstrosity with deviance and abnormality. Within this rationale, the present study investigates the aesthetics of Postcolonial Gothic politics to examine the use of the supernatural, the grotesque body, the monstrous abject, and the haunted ruins to depict a dismembered nation through the deployment of eerie motifs and surreal techniques. My premise fleshes out the Frankenstein hubris to dismantle the US political culture in Iraq. The aim is to reframe the modern G...
Arab Studies Quarterly, 2021
The present study examines the aesthetic features of Sabry Musa's Lord of the Spinach Field (... more The present study examines the aesthetic features of Sabry Musa's Lord of the Spinach Field (1987) through Karl-Heinz Bohrer's “Utopia of the Subject” to foreground Homo's quest for a wished-for yet unattainable reality. Post-Colonial Utopianism depicts man's inner turmoil to force an act of willful rethinking to enhance the “anticipatory consciousness” of a better life, a point interrogated within Ernst Bloch's Principle of Hope to propose the concept of the “Not-Yet-Become”: the not realized futuristic reality. Therefore, the interest is in utopia/dystopia historicities as analytical markers of historical inquiry to analyze specific space/time coordinates; post-colonial pitfalls of a technoscience dystopia. As such, the remarkable characteristic of Post-Colonial Utopianism is critique, and “Subjective Utopia” strives to achieve a breach in the teleological ideology of historical structures; thereby, transformation is the central aesthetic strategy of post-colon...
Textual Turnings, 2019
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Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies, 2021
The present paper investigates the topographical aspects of literature that have gained an outsta... more The present paper investigates the topographical aspects of literature that have gained an outstanding academic attention within the last decades acknowledging the "spatial turn" in social sciences and humanities. My study espouses a "polysensuous" approach to places and the spatialtemporal scheme addresses postcolonial identities, exile and geographic displacement to argue forcefully the role of the subjective experience of places so as to enhance a textual geographic reading of colonial/postcolonial histories. The present geocritical reading examines the "reassertion of space" in Hadiya Hussein's Beyond Love and Radwa Ashur's Al-Tantouria to present, hopefully, a key contribution to the growing body of work in spatial literary studies within the paradigm of life-writing narratives to interrogate the "where" of postcolonial terrains. As such, a geospatial story-telling is a key trope to feature the interest in the interaction between spatial practices and life-writing narratives that depict the two Arab women writers as postcolonial cartographers. The two narratives have been selected since they are relevant to explore life-writing postcolonial geographic critiques to offer a montage of the Self within wounded nations and to blur the borderline between memoirists' personal stories and postcolonial turbulent histories. Within this rationale, the present paper interrogates the spatial discourse as a geographic rupture which represents the core of postcolonial critiques. This post-national comparative literature questions multiethnic zones as well as diasporas to map the postcolonial terrain of the speaking subaltern. The affective literary mapping offers an insightful illumination of poetic topos to experience cities through senses, to inspire spatial transgression and to record personal sensations.
My study grows out of a desire to make sense of the attraction to Celtic myths as exemplified in ... more My study grows out of a desire to make sense of the attraction to Celtic myths as exemplified in The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014) since an academic breadth for the visual Celtic orientalism is still not fully achieved. To expand the scope of the Irish studies, the present paper is an attempt to construct the Irish criticism in the twenty-first century within the motion picture paradigm as manifested in the productions of the indigenous Irish studio, Cartoon Saloon, established in 1999 in Southeast Ireland. I argue for the equal significance of animation which has not been yet theorized in a comprehensive critical media discourse to emphasize Ireland's exceptional perception of itself as extraordinary. The premise of the study is to establish The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014) as Irish postcolonial animation to examine the tenor of the Celtic postcoloniality that has been shaped by energies of the past. The two animated films interrogate fa...
Studies in Literature and Language, 2017
The aim of this study is to explore fantasy chronotope as exemplified in the complex spatio-tempo... more The aim of this study is to explore fantasy chronotope as exemplified in the complex spatio-temporal configuration in children’s fantasy films. The notion of fantasy chronotope is revisited to conceptualize the way space and time can interrelate through the in-depth analysis of two portal-quest fantasy films: Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Hayao Miyazaki’s (2001) Spirited Away (2001). The theoretical starting point is to examine the representation of the Alternative World and to articulate the aesthetics of animated children’s films as well. The researcher adopts a comparative/theoretical method to question spatiality in visual media and to analyze spatial practices undertaken by fictional/female narratives within multiple locations. Moreover, Japanese anime has not been studied adequately compared to its North American counterparts such as Disney especially in terms of ethnic/national or gender politics encoded in anime images. The study seeks to establish the two ani...
The current study aims at theorizing the question of identity within the framework of postcolonia... more The current study aims at theorizing the question of identity within the framework of postcolonial Asian American Diaspora in Helen Reservist’s and Gabi Swiatkowska's picture book My Name is Yoon (2003) to highlight a number of questions: 1) How can Asian American visuals be addressed in non-white children's literature? 2) What are the nature of belonging and citizenship? 3) What makes Yoon, the immigrant girl, who resisted in writing her name in English in the beginning eventually writes it in English at the end? The questions are a vehicle to investigate the cultural and ethnic politics of Asian American literature and to explore new forms of self-identification in American literary discourse. They also yield rich insights into how to practice multiculturalism. The selected visual narrative has only been – to the best of my knowledge- studied as a vivid example of multicultural literature in primary schools designed for children whose age ranged from 5-9 as an activity for...
Bulletin of Advanced English Studies, 2019
The aim of the present study is to highlight the 'replay' of the master classic narrative: The Co... more The aim of the present study is to highlight the 'replay' of the master classic narrative: The Comedy of Oedipus: You're the One Who Killed the Beast 2 (1969) by Ali Salem. This 'appropriation' gives room for renegotiating fixed political authority of post-independence dictatorship. This juxtaposition, consequently, is an endeavor on the part of the artist who experiences 'internal colonialism'. It is the hypothesis that Ali Salem 'reworks' the classics within a post-independence context to invest it with more local flavor dissociating it from authority and authenticity. Thereby, Salem manipulates the trope of parody as a key site of resistance to imposed values and practices. In the appropriated play, the Egyptian playwright dramatizes the ascending of the Egyptian Oedipus to power portraying him as a god and as a despot as well. Thus, this present study analyzes the intertextual relations between the old play and the new version. The ultimate aim, besides the unlocking of the underlying message, is to shed light on the rationale behind such relations. In this sense, the current paper seeks to examine the semiotic clefs and sign-systems that unfold the underlying structure of The Comedy of Oedipus especially within the text-performance axis.
Bulletin of Advanced English Studies, 2018
The poignancy of Rashad Rushdy's play Behold! Behold! (1965) lies in the revival of Khayal Al-Zil... more The poignancy of Rashad Rushdy's play Behold! Behold! (1965) lies in the revival of Khayal Al-Zill (Shadow Theatre) so as to expose subtly post-independence Egypt. My purpose is to analyze the theatrical presentation of Behold! Behold! within the framework of Bakhtin's carnival logics by shedding light on the conventions of Khayal Al-Zill. The use of Khayal Al-Zill can be explained in the light of the dynamic tension of what Bakhtin calls ''centripetal'' and ''centrifugal'' forces, i.e., center and periphery. Every language, Bakhtin notes "participates in the unitary language (in its centripetal force and tendencies) and at the same time partakes of social and historical heteroglossia (the centrifugal stratifying forces)" (Bakhtin, 1981, p. 272). Khayal Al-Zill is '' a centrifugal force'' that seeks to undermine the ''unitary'' ambition of hegemonic authority. A ''centrifugal force'', therefore, is a tendency to express resistance against the ''centripetal'' tendency to decentre a ''monoglossic language'' and to reformulate histories. In this sense, the current study seeks to establish Khayal Al-Zill as a tool of resistance within the theatrical device of metadrama to dismantle oppression and injustice. Khayal Al-Zill is theatricalized in the manner of the Pirandellean play-within-a-play. It is dramatized in a deliberate reflexiveness to refer to itself. It functions as a powerful subtext to concretize metaphorically the political turmoil in post-independence Egypt. In other words, it registers the political abuse during the Mameluki era; an abuse which is echoed in the sixties under the leadership of the Nasserite regime.
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Papers by Marwa F AlKhayat
The aim of the present study is to examine the contribution of visuals to digital story-telling, a process proposed by Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen as 'Reading Images' (1996). They challenge modern viewers to consider the varied forms of meaning-making that extend beyond language to enhance the semiotic process and to decode the different configurations of representation, patterns of communication, how experience can be visually decoded, and all that contribute to the meaning of polyphonic images. Shaun Tan's The Arrival (2006) is a wordless graphic novel in sepia tones to illustrate the immigrant's epic journey to a wondrous land. The Arrival is highly symbolic full of overwhelming worlds, enigmatic creatures and origami birds. It screens intra- and intertextual references of historical migration to the New World as well as cinematic flourishes such as zooming in and out in order to capture the nameless central character’s loneliness and vulnerability in a strange and surrealist world. Tan's digital story-telling calls upon the viewer to bear knowledge of structural conventions such as panels, the use of gutter [the spaces between panels], colors, symbols and other textual devices serve to heighten the strangeness of the immigrant's experience with the intention to set him as Everyman. In the absence of the text, paratextual features become significant to decipher meanings visually with grey and sepia shadows that evoke the feelings of old photographs that create a story through the use of panels of small-size, medium-size, large-size images and multiple frames. The digital story-telling is also enhanced by the use of montage as manifested, for instance, in the opening pages that depict a heart-breaking scene of the husband's departure that generates the effect of silent black and white movie. Finally, Tan's visuals are set in the zone between dreams and reality to portray the pain of departure, the confusion of arrival and the defeated sense of dislocation and finally the glimmerings of hope in a surrealist mood to communicate meaning within modes of sound, color, tone and texture relying upon cinematic framing and shifting from photographic pencil-toned greys to sepia-toned browns to indicate the narrator's shifts and to explore Tan's foreshadowing and flashbacks as literary techniques.
Keywords: Digital Story-Telling, Graphic Novel, Reading Images, Visual Grammar – Multicultural Literature