Recently Instapoetry, a form of minimalist poetry, has emerged as a result of using Instagram as ... more Recently Instapoetry, a form of minimalist poetry, has emerged as a result of using Instagram as a platform for expression. It has strived to gain validity since many of Instapoets have gained millions of followers who have approved this kind of writing which, most of the time, is accompanied by advertisements that symbolize the hidden economic agenda that controls who will get published. However, Instapoetry has been and is still being faced by a wave of disapproval. The paper’s argument is to verify the validity and investigate the reliability of Instapoetry, an emergent subgenre, by measuring it against the dominant literary canon which includes areas of the residual. The paper sheds light on how the Marxist economic approach to literature reproduction affects this newly-exercised type of poetry; to what extent Instapoetry can be considered a mirror of social values, and how it can be a form of propaganda. The researcher compares theories of poetry in Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’...
Dual Inheritance Theory (DIT) asserts that both genetic and environmental factors have a formativ... more Dual Inheritance Theory (DIT) asserts that both genetic and environmental factors have a formative impact on the physical as well as psychological upbringing of people.Audre Lorde, a famous Afro-American poet and a model (according to DIT) has influenced Afro-German women writers.For the forging of a collective Black German consciousness of identity, Audre Lorde’s connections with Black Germans were pivotal and marked the beginning of a cross-cultural movement that was seminal for the building of various organizations like the Initiative of Black Germans (ISD), ADEFRA(Afro-German Women) and Home story Deutschland. Afro-Germans,and Afro-Americans,share much in common,are part and parcel of the environment they have been raised in; therefore, according to genetic-cultural coevolution, subsequent generations are fully developed Homo sapiens whose biological and cultural genes are every inch (Afro-)Germans (and (Afro-)Americans. Moreover,a model,Audre Lorde in this case,who shares genetic roots with others, such as May Opitz,alias May Ayim,and who lives somewhere else can transfer some of his/her environmental practices such as protest against racism and give voice to the marginalized.
This research aims at investigating Carol Ann Duffy’s representation of feminist issues by recall... more This research aims at investigating Carol Ann Duffy’s representation of feminist issues by recalling historical, religious and mythological figures using the dramatic monologue. Duffy subverts feminine archetypes through a series of dramatic monologues in her volume The World’s Wife whose structure is based on an eclectic mixture of influences that build up intertextual and metatextual webs reflected in themes of love, as well as the loss of love, sexist oppression, sadness and loneliness, and many others. Be it noted that The World’s Wife shows difficulties, set by a patriarchal society, in the way of women as well as men. Duffy’s simple language is traced back to Wordsworth, while her use of the dramatic monologue reminiscent of Browning and T. S. Eliot. To express female desiderata, Duffy has revisited different female figures such as Medusa, Mrs. Midas that holds intertextual semantic relations based on world text theory with Ovid’s king Midas’ story from Metamorphoses, and Delilah and Salome. Other gender-bending figures, illustrated not by cross-dressing but by cross identification, appear like Mrs. Darwin, Mrs. Aesop, Mrs. Sisyphus, and Mrs. Faust. Keywords: Feminism, dramatic monologue, Duffy, poetry.
This paper investigates African American cultural kernels, viz., jazz and blues, and shows their ... more This paper investigates African American cultural kernels, viz., jazz and blues, and shows their impact on the transmission of African American culture especially the reaction against racial iniquity vertically, horizontally, obliquely and globally, using Dual Inheritance Theory, also known as Gcne-Culture Coevolution (Dual inheritance theory)1, as a reading mechanism. Though difficult and sometimes almost impossible to interpret, these cultural kernels deepen one’s understanding when properly traced and decoded by a cultur'ally competent reader. I argue that the importance of such cultural kernels as jazz and blues lies not only in the fact that it represents the core of the African American culture, but in the cultural bearings on other people’s acculturation of African American culture as well. Therefore, Dual Inheritance Theory is an appropriate reading mechanism which highlights the role of jazz and blues in the transmission of African American culture. Using this reading mechanism, the paper gives an accurate interpretation of Komunyakaa’s Copacetic in which he makes use of < African codes, symbols and music to present stratifications based on race and transmit the ensuing reaction. His technique shows in the way jazz music is used both as a way to express racial iniquity and as a cathartic tool by which apartheid-inflicted wounds can be healed through an encompassing feeling of contentment which is a characteristic of Qyiacetic. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA This paper investigates African American cultural kernels, viz., jazz and blues, and shows their impact on the transmission of African American culture especially the reaction against racial iniquity vertically, horizontally, obliquely and globally, using Dual Inheritance Theory, also known as Gcne-Culture Coevolution (Dual inheritance theory) 1 , as a reading mechanism. Though difficult and sometimes almost impossible to interpret, these cultural kernels deepen one’s understanding when properly traced and decoded by a cultur'ally competent reader. I argue that the importance of such cultural kernels as jazz and blues lies not only in the fact that it represents the core of the African American culture, but in the cultural bearings on other people’s acculturation of African American culture as well. Therefore, Dual Inheritance Theory is an appropriate reading mechanism which highlights the role of jazz and blues in the transmission of African American culture. Using this reading mechanism, the paper gives an accurate interpretation of Komunyakaa’s Copacetic in which he makes use of < African codes, symbols and music to present stratifications based on race and transmit the ensuing reaction. His technique shows in the way jazz music is used both as a way to express racial iniquity and as a cathartic tool by which apartheid-inflicted wounds can be healed through an encompassing feeling of contentment which is a characteristic of Qyiacetic. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:none; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New";}
"This paper discusses my translation of Goweda’s poem in light of the theory of cultural tra... more "This paper discusses my translation of Goweda’s poem in light of the theory of cultural translation. Cultural translation, or translation of culture, changes the traditional concept of translation. It no longer considers finding the correct equivalents and transferring meaning across two languages as its main concern. Rather, it has subtly gained so much importance that it focuses on the transference of people’s life styles, values, traditions and religious beliefs. Despite efforts exerted to make globalization of culture a success, sometimes it is difficult to translate aspects of people’s cultures, which are called culture specifics. The discussion of Gweda’s poem illustrates the new role cultural translation has undertaken and highlights culture specifics as a problem for which different solutions should be suggested. "
This paper introduces the theory of deframing: a new mechanism for reading and analyzing poetry. ... more This paper introduces the theory of deframing: a new mechanism for reading and analyzing poetry. This theory is derived from the cinematic term décadrage; from photography, painting and cognitive frames. It aims at unraveling cultural specifics which affect a (foreign) reader &quot; s interpretation of a given literary work. Moreover, it introduces different possible readings and interpretations by spotlighting the less focused scenes /details in a given work. Deframing necessitates decoding of intertextual and cognitive references, which helps build an accurate, deeply rooted cultural image without discarding any cultural implications. On the other hand, it synchronically and diachronically delimits a certain scene at a definite moment, changing any given interpretation or an expected response. Actually, it provides the reader with possibilities to revisit a work of art and discover new meanings and produces different interpretations. The theory will be applied to different poets from William Shakespeare to E. E. Cummings.
International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies, 2022
Texts’ souls have been cloned and their selves reproduced. History of ideas have been passed from... more Texts’ souls have been cloned and their selves reproduced. History of ideas have been passed from generation to generation and translated from one language to another. In each generation, a text represents an author’s ideas that are enclosed in a time-space frame. Representation of ideas may take another turn with the death of the author: soul cloning or self-reproduction. Between cloning and reproduction, translation stands as a reconstruction of memory and a channel through which a rebirth of texts, loaded with ideas, concepts, traditions, and cultural practices, are transmitted. Between the source text and the target, text a third text lingers in space and time waiting to be reborn. I argue that space and time play an important role in the emergence of the ever-evolving third text giving it an identity based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s chronotope. The third text is constructed by the readers’ interpretations rather than the authors’ intentions as Roland Barthes maintains. The author is...
Recently Instapoetry, a form of minimalist poetry, has emerged as a result of using Instagram as ... more Recently Instapoetry, a form of minimalist poetry, has emerged as a result of using Instagram as a platform for expression. It has strived to gain validity since many of Instapoets have gained millions of followers who have approved this kind of writing which, most of the time, is accompanied by advertisements that symbolize the hidden economic agenda that controls who will get published. However, Instapoetry has been and is still being faced by a wave of disapproval. The paper’s argument is to verify the validity and investigate the reliability of Instapoetry, an emergent subgenre, by measuring it against the dominant literary canon which includes areas of the residual. The paper sheds light on how the Marxist economic approach to literature reproduction affects this newly-exercised type of poetry; to what extent Instapoetry can be considered a mirror of social values, and how it can be a form of propaganda. The researcher compares theories of poetry in Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’...
Dual Inheritance Theory (DIT) asserts that both genetic and environmental factors have a formativ... more Dual Inheritance Theory (DIT) asserts that both genetic and environmental factors have a formative impact on the physical as well as psychological upbringing of people.Audre Lorde, a famous Afro-American poet and a model (according to DIT) has influenced Afro-German women writers.For the forging of a collective Black German consciousness of identity, Audre Lorde’s connections with Black Germans were pivotal and marked the beginning of a cross-cultural movement that was seminal for the building of various organizations like the Initiative of Black Germans (ISD), ADEFRA(Afro-German Women) and Home story Deutschland. Afro-Germans,and Afro-Americans,share much in common,are part and parcel of the environment they have been raised in; therefore, according to genetic-cultural coevolution, subsequent generations are fully developed Homo sapiens whose biological and cultural genes are every inch (Afro-)Germans (and (Afro-)Americans. Moreover,a model,Audre Lorde in this case,who shares genetic roots with others, such as May Opitz,alias May Ayim,and who lives somewhere else can transfer some of his/her environmental practices such as protest against racism and give voice to the marginalized.
This research aims at investigating Carol Ann Duffy’s representation of feminist issues by recall... more This research aims at investigating Carol Ann Duffy’s representation of feminist issues by recalling historical, religious and mythological figures using the dramatic monologue. Duffy subverts feminine archetypes through a series of dramatic monologues in her volume The World’s Wife whose structure is based on an eclectic mixture of influences that build up intertextual and metatextual webs reflected in themes of love, as well as the loss of love, sexist oppression, sadness and loneliness, and many others. Be it noted that The World’s Wife shows difficulties, set by a patriarchal society, in the way of women as well as men. Duffy’s simple language is traced back to Wordsworth, while her use of the dramatic monologue reminiscent of Browning and T. S. Eliot. To express female desiderata, Duffy has revisited different female figures such as Medusa, Mrs. Midas that holds intertextual semantic relations based on world text theory with Ovid’s king Midas’ story from Metamorphoses, and Delilah and Salome. Other gender-bending figures, illustrated not by cross-dressing but by cross identification, appear like Mrs. Darwin, Mrs. Aesop, Mrs. Sisyphus, and Mrs. Faust. Keywords: Feminism, dramatic monologue, Duffy, poetry.
This paper investigates African American cultural kernels, viz., jazz and blues, and shows their ... more This paper investigates African American cultural kernels, viz., jazz and blues, and shows their impact on the transmission of African American culture especially the reaction against racial iniquity vertically, horizontally, obliquely and globally, using Dual Inheritance Theory, also known as Gcne-Culture Coevolution (Dual inheritance theory)1, as a reading mechanism. Though difficult and sometimes almost impossible to interpret, these cultural kernels deepen one’s understanding when properly traced and decoded by a cultur'ally competent reader. I argue that the importance of such cultural kernels as jazz and blues lies not only in the fact that it represents the core of the African American culture, but in the cultural bearings on other people’s acculturation of African American culture as well. Therefore, Dual Inheritance Theory is an appropriate reading mechanism which highlights the role of jazz and blues in the transmission of African American culture. Using this reading mechanism, the paper gives an accurate interpretation of Komunyakaa’s Copacetic in which he makes use of < African codes, symbols and music to present stratifications based on race and transmit the ensuing reaction. His technique shows in the way jazz music is used both as a way to express racial iniquity and as a cathartic tool by which apartheid-inflicted wounds can be healed through an encompassing feeling of contentment which is a characteristic of Qyiacetic. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA This paper investigates African American cultural kernels, viz., jazz and blues, and shows their impact on the transmission of African American culture especially the reaction against racial iniquity vertically, horizontally, obliquely and globally, using Dual Inheritance Theory, also known as Gcne-Culture Coevolution (Dual inheritance theory) 1 , as a reading mechanism. Though difficult and sometimes almost impossible to interpret, these cultural kernels deepen one’s understanding when properly traced and decoded by a cultur'ally competent reader. I argue that the importance of such cultural kernels as jazz and blues lies not only in the fact that it represents the core of the African American culture, but in the cultural bearings on other people’s acculturation of African American culture as well. Therefore, Dual Inheritance Theory is an appropriate reading mechanism which highlights the role of jazz and blues in the transmission of African American culture. Using this reading mechanism, the paper gives an accurate interpretation of Komunyakaa’s Copacetic in which he makes use of < African codes, symbols and music to present stratifications based on race and transmit the ensuing reaction. His technique shows in the way jazz music is used both as a way to express racial iniquity and as a cathartic tool by which apartheid-inflicted wounds can be healed through an encompassing feeling of contentment which is a characteristic of Qyiacetic. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:none; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Courier New";}
"This paper discusses my translation of Goweda’s poem in light of the theory of cultural tra... more "This paper discusses my translation of Goweda’s poem in light of the theory of cultural translation. Cultural translation, or translation of culture, changes the traditional concept of translation. It no longer considers finding the correct equivalents and transferring meaning across two languages as its main concern. Rather, it has subtly gained so much importance that it focuses on the transference of people’s life styles, values, traditions and religious beliefs. Despite efforts exerted to make globalization of culture a success, sometimes it is difficult to translate aspects of people’s cultures, which are called culture specifics. The discussion of Gweda’s poem illustrates the new role cultural translation has undertaken and highlights culture specifics as a problem for which different solutions should be suggested. "
This paper introduces the theory of deframing: a new mechanism for reading and analyzing poetry. ... more This paper introduces the theory of deframing: a new mechanism for reading and analyzing poetry. This theory is derived from the cinematic term décadrage; from photography, painting and cognitive frames. It aims at unraveling cultural specifics which affect a (foreign) reader &quot; s interpretation of a given literary work. Moreover, it introduces different possible readings and interpretations by spotlighting the less focused scenes /details in a given work. Deframing necessitates decoding of intertextual and cognitive references, which helps build an accurate, deeply rooted cultural image without discarding any cultural implications. On the other hand, it synchronically and diachronically delimits a certain scene at a definite moment, changing any given interpretation or an expected response. Actually, it provides the reader with possibilities to revisit a work of art and discover new meanings and produces different interpretations. The theory will be applied to different poets from William Shakespeare to E. E. Cummings.
International Journal of English and Comparative Literary Studies, 2022
Texts’ souls have been cloned and their selves reproduced. History of ideas have been passed from... more Texts’ souls have been cloned and their selves reproduced. History of ideas have been passed from generation to generation and translated from one language to another. In each generation, a text represents an author’s ideas that are enclosed in a time-space frame. Representation of ideas may take another turn with the death of the author: soul cloning or self-reproduction. Between cloning and reproduction, translation stands as a reconstruction of memory and a channel through which a rebirth of texts, loaded with ideas, concepts, traditions, and cultural practices, are transmitted. Between the source text and the target, text a third text lingers in space and time waiting to be reborn. I argue that space and time play an important role in the emergence of the ever-evolving third text giving it an identity based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s chronotope. The third text is constructed by the readers’ interpretations rather than the authors’ intentions as Roland Barthes maintains. The author is...
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