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Online ISSN: 2667-6214Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies2667-62141420201201The Postmodern Relationship with Nature in Don Delillo’s White Noise1812703210.26655/JELCS.2020.4.1ENAlexanderDavis *University of OttawaJournal Article20190305With climate change and species endangerment a news regularity, it is essential to examine how the dominant postmodern social activity, consumerism, impacts nature. Importantly, it is necessary to inquire about the human relation to nature in postmodernity. This paper examines Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise to understand how consumerism reconfigures the human relationship with nature and importantly transforms this relationship along consumer parameters. Using Jean Baudrillard’s philosophy of the consumer society and hyperreality, this paper elaborates how the characters of White Noise perceive and interact with nature through images and signs of entertainment and advertising. Shifting from literary predecessors, these consumer aspects remove the affiliation and critical aspect to inquire about the environment. Ultimately, while the environment once offered tranquility, harmony, and reflection, the images and signs of nature are merely recirculated and postmodern sites of consumption are instead accepted as society’s ‘natural’ environment. While highlighting these aspects in White Noise the paper relates these insights to the postmodern condition and concludes with strategies to reclaim the former empathic relationship with nature.https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127032_a6c84b8977a3094923516ce3a2b28065.pdfEurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia (Registered ID: 1167746743889)
Online ISSN: 2667-6214Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies2667-62141420201201Blanche and the Fear of Patriarchy in A Streetcar Named Desire91712703310.26655/JELCS.2020.4.2ENShibajiMridha *Senior Lecturer, Department of English (on Study Leave), Eastern University, BangladeshJournal Article20190516This paper examines the portrayal of Blanche DuBois’s sexuality and its connection to patriarchy in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire. In this critically acclaimed play, Blanche not only performs her assigned gender role but also flaunts her sexuality which transgresses gendered norms of her society. Critics mostly agree that because of repressive patriarchal rules she loses her sanity, while few argue that her excessive sensuality causes her downfall. Instead of perceiving patriarchy as a catalytic backdrop, or an instigating agent, this paper aims to view Blanche’s descent into madness as the sheer plotting of patriarchy since her transgressive sexuality upsets the patriarchal status quo. Using the lens of Gender and Sexuality Studies, it argues how transgressive female sexuality poses a threat to the existing chauvinist power structure. It also seeks the tools patriarchy uses to control and cage transgressive female sexuality, discussing how the discourse of insanity and maternity is manipulated to bring back order on stage, and in the society in general.https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127033_acbd79108f2972c293154409e1cce0a5.pdfEurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia (Registered ID: 1167746743889)
Online ISSN: 2667-6214Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies2667-62141420201201The Imaginary and the Symbolic in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness183112703410.26655/JELCS.2020.4.3ENAbdelkaderBen Rhit Dr. *Faculty of Letters, Arts and Humanities of Manouba, TunisiaJournal Article20190621This paper compares two texts Joseph Conrad’s <em>Heart of Darkness</em> and E. M Forster’s <em>A Passage to India</em> through an application of Abdul Jan Mohamed’s theoretical insights in “The Economy of the Manichean Allegory” to the two novels. In comparing these two texts<em>,</em> my aim is to investigate their implicit ideology regarding the African and Indian natives, the white presence in Africa and India respectively and their attitudes towards the colonial enterprise. The ultimate purpose of the paper is not only to demonstrate whether Conrad’s and Forster’s narratives serve the imperial ideology or rather undermine and criticize its practices but also to delineate the attitudes and relations between the colonizer and the colonized and the Manichean polarities between the self and the other as binary oppositions that sustain the colonial enterprise. Moreover, the paper aims at demonstrating that Conrad’s <em>Heart of Darkness</em> and Forster’s <em>A Passage to India</em> are two narratives of dubiety where the authors’ liberalism easily translates into an ideology of complicity. In other words, <em>Heart of Darkness,</em> which is previously read as an expression of Western ideals of civilization and progress, would now be read as embodiment of imperialist and racist rhetoric and representation. Similarly, Forster’s <em>A Passage to India,</em> a narrative that has long been praised for its humanistic icon and its liberal ideas, would now be read as an incarnation of imperial<br />and racial politics. The paper does not only challenge those scholars who do not see Orientalism as problematic but also those who tend to overlook the role of fictional representations in shaping the image of the Other within a wider multidisciplinary study of knowledge and power.https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127034_9e984d4268f50c0c5deab409c231f00e.pdfEurasian Applied Linguistics Society, Moscow, Russia (Registered ID: 1167746743889)
Online ISSN: 2667-6214Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies2667-62141420201201The Sun Will Rise Again From Africa324512703510.26655/JELCS.2020.4.4ENHacerGozenAssist. Prof. Dr., School of Foreign Languages, Isik University, Istanbul, TurkeyTimucinBugra Emdan *Assist. Prof. Dr., Department of English Language Teaching, Duzce University, Duzce, TurkeyJournal Article20190808This paper investigates the role of the language Biko and Kgositsile used through their diasporic movements, Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) by Biko and Black Art Movement (BAM) by Kgositsile, to analyze the symbiosis in their language and to reveal a designed methodology and social pedagogy in their philosophy, literature and art. Moreover, the paper focuses on the interdependence in Biko’s oratory movement, which might be taken into consideration as a philosophical movement, and Kgositsile’s literary endeavors, which are elaborated as an artistic movement. The study proposes analogies and designed methodological and pedagogical practices for social and psychological construction through their movements which target collective consciousness bridging their traditional roots and modern world. Biko’s and Kgositsile’s lines are functioning as a record of the savageness they and their people experienced, and are pedagogical and methodological responses and instructions for them to survive in a modern social structure with a powerful self-conscious psychology. Through this perspective, the poem “Anguish Longer than Sorrow” by Kgositsile through Black Art Movement and Biko’s philosophy through Black Consciousness Movement will be analyzed and compared in this study.https://www.jelcsjournal.com/article_127035_2aa9aae62dd7e73ebc252134662261e8.pdf