@article { author = {Desen MBACHAGA Dr. *, Jonathan}, title = {Using Drama and Participatory Methods to Investigate the Influence of Poverty and Traditional Practices on Health Seeking Behaviour of Tiv Women}, journal = {Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies}, volume = {1}, number = {2}, pages = {1-9}, year = {2020}, publisher = {KARE Publishing, Turkey Affiliated by Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia Online ISSN: 2667-6214}, issn = {2667-6214}, eissn = {2667-6214}, doi = {10.26655/JELCS.2020.2.1}, abstract = {Using participatory research methods to engage ordinary people in critical reflection and discussion of their problems has become a widely accepted practice among scholars and stakeholders of development communication in a bid to foster social change. This article reports on the use of drama and Participatory Learning and Action tools (PLA) to investigate the influence of poverty and traditional practices on health seeking behaviour of Tiv women in Ikyaan and Amua communities of Benue State, Nigeria. The purpose was to provide an interactive session among discussants and researchers towards understanding factors that hinder access to prompt medical attention especially as regards pregnant women in the selected communities. Findings show that, women in the communities prior to the drama intervention preferred certain traditional practices because they were cheaper. The study concludes, among others that, if we are to succeed in the task of improving the health status of people in the rural areas, we must include, involve and listen to poor people and their representatives. The poor have long recognized the link between good health and development. But until recently, this link has been neglected in mainstream development thinking. Improving the health of the poor must become a priority, not only for public health but also for other sectors of development — economic, environmental and social.}, keywords = {Drama Development communication Poverty PLA Health Behaviour Tiv women}, url = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127018.html}, eprint = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127018_b7fb94a5947412ae8470bd16c2e44445.pdf} } @article { author = {howers Dr. *, Zachary S}, title = {Independent Systems of Ideology: Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall}, journal = {Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies}, volume = {1}, number = {2}, pages = {10-20}, year = {2020}, publisher = {KARE Publishing, Turkey Affiliated by Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia Online ISSN: 2667-6214}, issn = {2667-6214}, eissn = {2667-6214}, doi = {10.26655/JELCS.2020.2.2}, abstract = {Evelyn Waugh’s imaginary perfection involves defining Englishness as a monolithic code of morality and class structure, one that actually never exists universally and is mostly idyllic, but is nevertheless the standard to which society should be held.  Invariably, Waugh’s Englishness is a hegemonic, stratified and rigid phenomenon; his novels belie a deep distrust of the ascendant lower-class.  Englishness is what separates Waugh’s cultural compatriots—those that share his deeply conservative, moralistic and hegemonic ideology—from those Waugh derides as pretenders to the same.  Waugh is doing much more than simply making fun of the wealthy and clueless; he is also blaming them for abandoning a more perfect past in favor of a shoddy future.  The upper-class characters he portrays are often woefully out of touch, immoral, even reprobate, but their primary failing is an abandonment of tradition in favor of an unsatisfying modernity.  Waugh is, as the title Decline and Fall suggests, watching the gradual disintegration of what he believes to be a great society, and showing it as beset on all sides by people who simply do not belong. }, keywords = {Metropole Ideology Nostalgia English literature Precolonial Satire Postcolonial}, url = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127019.html}, eprint = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127019_65631e8937ac8d8b6ab72c3ed16310fa.pdf} } @article { author = {Salazar Dr. *, Anthony}, title = {Clive Barker’s Sacrament and the Future of Queer Lives during the AIDS Crisis}, journal = {Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies}, volume = {1}, number = {2}, pages = {21-27}, year = {2020}, publisher = {KARE Publishing, Turkey Affiliated by Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia Online ISSN: 2667-6214}, issn = {2667-6214}, eissn = {2667-6214}, doi = {10.26655/JELCS.2020.2.3}, abstract = {While Clive Barker’s Sacrament received the Lambda Literary Award in 1997, it nonetheless remains overlooked by both scholars and horror enthusiasts. Encompassing themes such as disease, death, gender and sexual identities, the novel represents the ways characters such as Jacob and Rosa (a demon soul split into two humanlike characters) negotiate their Otherness within heteronormative environments. These two characters, however, are not the only ones who feel marginalized. Will Rabjohns, the protagonist of the novel, undergoes ostracization for being gay and suffers loneliness as one of the last to survive among his friends during the AIDS crisis. As a child, Will encounters Jacob/Rosa once and, from there, spends his whole life trying to recreate that moment. Through Will’s investigation of Jacob/Rosa’s mysterious origin, two opposing responses to the existential crisis of the AIDS epidemic emerge. Jacob (whose destructive personality finds pleasure in killing) can be read as embodying Lee Edelman’s theory of the death drive while Rosa (whose lustful drive fuels her desire to procreate) can be read as embodying José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of queer futurity. Will’s journey to understanding Jacob/Rosa ultimately implies that a future for queer individuals during the AIDS epidemic requires envisioning Muñoz’s theory of queer futurity. Through this examination, I therefore argue that novels such as Sacrament should be central to the canon of queer literature, for they wrestle with significant historical challenges to queer identities.}, keywords = {AIDS Fantasy Futurity Horror Queer Sacrament}, url = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127020.html}, eprint = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127020_3bcd7a0ed402498a9d59541f3e0f7335.pdf} } @article { author = {I. Ehiemua Dr. *, Kingsley}, title = {The Altered Concept Of Heroism In Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun And No More The Wasted Breed}, journal = {Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies}, volume = {1}, number = {2}, pages = {28-34}, year = {2020}, publisher = {KARE Publishing, Turkey Affiliated by Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia Online ISSN: 2667-6214}, issn = {2667-6214}, eissn = {2667-6214}, doi = {10.26655/JELCS.2020.2.4}, abstract = {This article adopts a mythic reading of Femi Osofisan’s Morountodun and No More the Wasted Breed, both written in 1982 and 2002 respectively, in order to interpret how the concept of the ‘saviour hero’ is altered and subverted in the plays. The subversion manifests in the plays such that heroism changes from its common mythological and philosophical concept as a salvaging/sacrificial task undertaken for all by an extraordinary individual to one which is collective, collaborative and mass oriented. The paper argues that, in the worlds of the selected Osofisan’s plays, the latter concept is the one foregrounded as significant, functional, altruistic and more consistent with contemporary and pervasive sociopolitical and socioeconomic realities than the latter. The mythic critical approach adopted here attempts to align with Ernst Cassirer’s notion of mythological resources in texts of literature as modes of human perception and expression serving both rhetorical and humanistic purposes. The paper affirms that the altered concept of heroism in Osofisan’s two plays is motivated by a radical ideology which identifies anomalies such as inherent human failings, cultural prejudices, leadership failure, oppressive structures and other anti-progressive elements in Africa’s historical and socio-political experiences as the bane of its economic and technological progress. It concludes that the playwright’s suggestion as implied in the plays’ sub-texts that Africa’s problem can be overcome through humanistic evolution towards an egalitarian and compassionate society is only attainable through mass effort (collective sacrifice) to consciously change their defective value system.}, keywords = {Altered concept of heroism Mythology Africa Osofisan’s drama Collective sacrifice,Individual heroism}, url = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127021.html}, eprint = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127021_765eb4a4199c03f82aff128d1a542680.pdf} } @article { author = {Mofidi *, Mahdieh}, title = {An Intercultural Approach to Textbook Analysis: The Case of English Result}, journal = {Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies}, volume = {1}, number = {2}, pages = {35-43}, year = {2020}, publisher = {KARE Publishing, Turkey Affiliated by Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia Online ISSN: 2667-6214}, issn = {2667-6214}, eissn = {2667-6214}, doi = {10.26655/JELCS.2020.2.5}, abstract = {Highlighting the pivotal role of textbooks and materials in promoting intercultural communicative competence which gains prominence in the modern globalized world, the present study adopted a descriptive approach to English Result series. In doing so, this qualitative study analyzed the English Result (2009) series from an intercultural perspective. Thus, the representation of sociocultural identities was examined using Ting-Toomey’s (1988) identity negotiation theory. Identity representations were analyzed in terms of the four primary elements of cultural, ethnic, gender, and personal identities. Content analysis of visuals, reading passages, and audio tracks in the English Result series indicated that although the books have managed to represent gender, ethnic, and personal identity representations in the series, they have underrepresented cultural identity manifestations. Notwithstanding, this drawback – i.e., lack of cultural identity depiction, could –  be overcome by the teacher, realia, or DVDs which include a variety of cultural topics. The study ends with discussion and suggestions for further exploration of the textbooks from an intercultural, discursive, content-analytical perspective.}, keywords = {Materials analysis Intercultural competence Culture Identity English Result}, url = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127023.html}, eprint = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127023_2fefb70fe09a6f6a9c3750bb1a197ff1.pdf} } @article { author = {Kaosar Ahmed Dr. *, Mohammad}, title = {Display of Sisterhood in Selina Hossain’s Ghumkature Ishwar}, journal = {Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies}, volume = {1}, number = {2}, pages = {44-49}, year = {2020}, publisher = {KARE Publishing, Turkey Affiliated by Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia Online ISSN: 2667-6214}, issn = {2667-6214}, eissn = {2667-6214}, doi = {10.26655/JELCS.2020.2.6}, abstract = {Selina Hossain is a distinguished contemporary female writer from Bangladesh. Being a recognized feminist voice, Hossain delineates gender issues in her literary works. This paper is a humble attempt to study Hossain’s Ghumkature Ishwar with a view to focusing her portrayal of sisterhood - a term used by feminists to express the connection of women who are bonded in solidarity. Characters like Ruposhi and Shorishafuli, Shukjan and other village women, and Lutfunnisa, Romela and Zaheda form sisterhood in the novel that sometimes gives them a space of their own, shows the power their bond and helps them to survive in the patriarchal spider-web.}, keywords = {Sisterhood Empathy Patriarchy}, url = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127026.html}, eprint = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127026_5693d6e418a773e0eca0c8553d22e735.pdf} } @article { author = {Yvonne Iden *, Ngwa}, title = {‘Unsoldiered’ Soldier or Alternative War Narrative?: Modernist Epistemes in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms}, journal = {Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies}, volume = {1}, number = {2}, pages = {50-61}, year = {2020}, publisher = {KARE Publishing, Turkey Affiliated by Eurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia Online ISSN: 2667-6214}, issn = {2667-6214}, eissn = {2667-6214}, doi = {10.26655/JELCS.2020.2.7}, abstract = {This article posits that the image of the desexualised and feminised soldier portrayed in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, traceable by some to the author’s biographical experience, is, in effect, just part of the author’s modernist discourse as a writer of the post-World-War I era. As such, the novel’s subject matter, plot, themes, characters, structure, point of view, as well as the author’s whole art and vision are shaped by the author’s subscription to Modernism. The Psychoanalytical and Modernist theories are used to analyse Hemingway’s novel in the paper. While the former sheds light on Hemingway’s depiction of the disempowered soldier and shows how this portrayal emanates from the writer’s childhood experiences, the latter places the emasculated representation of the soldier within a broad modernist framework by showing how, apart from this portrayal that bears on characterisation in the book, the other components of the novel (subject matter, plot, themes, structure, point of view, author’s art and vision) fit in the mould of modernist discourse.}, keywords = {Soldier War narrative Modernist epistemes Desexualisation Effeminate representation}, url = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127029.html}, eprint = {https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127029_c6a4df68d7d7821e9ada27c9ab17db35.pdf} }