Shadi Neimneh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1163851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shadi Neimneh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shadi |
| FAMILY NAME | Neimneh |
| SIGNATURE | NEIMNEH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hashemite University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3041-5306 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Storytelling, Memory, and Female Communion in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns
This article explores telling stories and sharing memory as a means of achieving female communion and empowerment in Khaled Hosseini’s 2007 novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. Despite the rich scholarship the novel has received, this particular aspect of storytelling among female characters employed as a means of defying patriarchal norms and coping with life struggles (and a traumatic past) has not been given adequate attention. Storytelling and mem…
Sudanese Women, Slavery, and Race in Samiha Khrais’s Novel Slaves’ Peanuts
This study shows how the contemporary novel Slaves’ Peanuts (2016) by the Jordanian novelist Samiha Khrais presents slavery as a dilemma in the late twentieth century in Sudan. The novel provides a fairly grim and evocative depiction of the enslavement of women in a non-slavery era, bringing to mind the notorious involvement of Portugal in the slave trade during colonial times, and the implications of that colonial involvement on modern-day “Thir…
“Castration or Decapitation?” A Feminist Reading of Two Stories by Angela Carter
This article examines two stories by Angela Carter, “The Bloody Chamber” (1979) and “The Executioner’s Beautiful Daughter” (1974) to account for Carter’s unique and ambivalent dismantling of patriarchal myths. Carter conflates two patriarchal tropes, castration and decapitation, to figure the oppression of women while allowing for an avenue of resistance. Using the French version of feminism, the work of Hélène Cixous in particular, the psychoana…
Problems in Subtitling Cultural-Bound Expressions in “Theeb” Movie: A Case Study
Subtitling is a challenging task making subtitlers use precise strategies to improve the quality of the subtitles. This paper aims at identifying the subtitling strategies employed in subtitling the culture-bound terms in the Jordanian movie entitled “Theeb” and assessing the translation of such culture-bound terms. The dialect used in this movie is the Bedouin Jordanian Arabic. So, the translator faced two dilemmas: (1) Understanding the Bedouin…
Memory and Artistic Dissent: An Analogical Reading of Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Atwood’s Surfacing
This article examines the intersections between memory and artistic vision in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927) and Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing (1972), two novels resonating with feminist tensions and gender issues. Investigating two anxious female artists—Lily Briscoe in Woolf’s novel and the unnamed narrator of Atwood’s novel—the researchers argue that memory functions as a source of order and recuperation. Against patriarchal norms, me…
Postcolonial Arabic Fiction Revisited: Naturalism and Existentialism in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun
This article looks into the postcolonial Arabic narrative of Ghassan Kanafani to examine its underplayed existential and naturalistic aspects. Postcolonial texts (and their exegeses) deal with the effects of colonization/imperialism. They are expected to be political and are judged accordingly. Drawing on Kanafani’s Men in the Sun (1963), I argue that the intersection among existentialism and naturalism, on the one hand, and postcolonialism, on t…
Intellectuals, Politicians, and the Public in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People: A Postcolonial Critique
The Visceral Allegory of Waiting for the Barbarians: A Postmodern Re-Reading of J. M. Coetzee’s Apartheid Novels
The Visceral Allegory of Waiting for the BarbariansA Postmodern Re-Reading of J. M. Coetzee’s Apartheid Novels Shadi Neimneh (bio) Allegories are, in the realm of thoughts, what ruins are in the realm of things. —Walter Benjamin Allegory, then, is the doubling—indeed, the multiplication—of “texts” within and around a work of literature or art. —David Joselit Coetzee and Allegory Nowadays, in the midst of a wave of protests and uprisings in the Ar…
The Anti-Hero in Modernist Fiction: From Irony to Cultural Renewal
This essay considers anti-heroism as a response to modern man's uncertainties about traditional values and as a feature of modernity's zeitgeist. Modern anti-heroism captures the sensibility associated with modernism, with its attempts at cultural renewal, and it ranges between the low mimetic and the ironic mode
The Anti-Hero in Modernist Fiction: From Irony to Cultural Renewal
This essay considers anti-heroism as a response to modern man's uncertainties about traditional values and as a feature of modernity's zeitgeist. Modern anti-heroism captures the sensibility associated with modernism, with its attempts at cultural renewal, and it ranges between the low mimetic and the ironic mode
The Visceral Allegory of Waiting for the Barbarians: A Postmodern Re-Reading of J. M. Coetzee’s Apartheid Novels
The Visceral Allegory of Waiting for the BarbariansA Postmodern Re-Reading of J. M. Coetzee’s Apartheid Novels Shadi Neimneh (bio) Allegories are, in the realm of thoughts, what ruins are in the realm of things. —Walter Benjamin Allegory, then, is the doubling—indeed, the multiplication—of “texts” within and around a work of literature or art. —David Joselit Coetzee and Allegory Nowadays, in the midst of a wave of protests and uprisings in the Ar…
Postcolonial Arabic Fiction Revisited: Naturalism and Existentialism in Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun
This article looks into the postcolonial Arabic narrative of Ghassan Kanafani to examine its underplayed existential and naturalistic aspects. Postcolonial texts (and their exegeses) deal with the effects of colonization/imperialism. They are expected to be political and are judged accordingly. Drawing on Kanafani’s Men in the Sun (1963), I argue that the intersection among existentialism and naturalism, on the one hand, and postcolonialism, on t…
Intellectuals, Politicians, and the Public in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People: A Postcolonial Critique
Memory and Artistic Dissent: An Analogical Reading of Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Atwood’s Surfacing
This article examines the intersections between memory and artistic vision in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927) and Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing (1972), two novels resonating with feminist tensions and gender issues. Investigating two anxious female artists—Lily Briscoe in Woolf’s novel and the unnamed narrator of Atwood’s novel—the researchers argue that memory functions as a source of order and recuperation. Against patriarchal norms, me…
“Castration or Decapitation?” A Feminist Reading of Two Stories by Angela Carter
This article examines two stories by Angela Carter, “The Bloody Chamber” (1979) and “The Executioner’s Beautiful Daughter” (1974) to account for Carter’s unique and ambivalent dismantling of patriarchal myths. Carter conflates two patriarchal tropes, castration and decapitation, to figure the oppression of women while allowing for an avenue of resistance. Using the French version of feminism, the work of Hélène Cixous in particular, the psychoana…
Problems in Subtitling Cultural-Bound Expressions in “Theeb” Movie: A Case Study
Subtitling is a challenging task making subtitlers use precise strategies to improve the quality of the subtitles. This paper aims at identifying the subtitling strategies employed in subtitling the culture-bound terms in the Jordanian movie entitled “Theeb” and assessing the translation of such culture-bound terms. The dialect used in this movie is the Bedouin Jordanian Arabic. So, the translator faced two dilemmas: (1) Understanding the Bedouin…
Sudanese Women, Slavery, and Race in Samiha Khrais’s Novel Slaves’ Peanuts
This study shows how the contemporary novel Slaves’ Peanuts (2016) by the Jordanian novelist Samiha Khrais presents slavery as a dilemma in the late twentieth century in Sudan. The novel provides a fairly grim and evocative depiction of the enslavement of women in a non-slavery era, bringing to mind the notorious involvement of Portugal in the slave trade during colonial times, and the implications of that colonial involvement on modern-day “Thir…
Storytelling, Memory, and Female Communion in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns
This article explores telling stories and sharing memory as a means of achieving female communion and empowerment in Khaled Hosseini’s 2007 novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. Despite the rich scholarship the novel has received, this particular aspect of storytelling among female characters employed as a means of defying patriarchal norms and coping with life struggles (and a traumatic past) has not been given adequate attention. Storytelling and mem…
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