Bayan Alammouri
Biographic Data
| ID | 4046925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bayan Alammouri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bayan |
| FAMILY NAME | Alammouri |
| SIGNATURE | ALAMMOURI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jordan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2833-178X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Dream as a Diasporic Para‐technological Allegory in Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel
This paper examines Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel (2025) as a technological dystopia that exposes the neoliberal extension of market‐driven rationality into the human psyche. Neoliberalism attempts to extend the figure of the homo economicus into a seamless homo technologicus seeking to capture even the most intimate terrains of subjectivity—dreams, emotions, and aspirations. The novel dramatizes neoliberal ambitions to render the subconscious a…
Sillinity as Survival
This paper explores the concept of “sillinity”, an intentional lighthearted absurdity, as a narrative strategy in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and contemporary refugee memoirs: Atef Abu Saif’s Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide (2024) and Yusra Mardini’s Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph (2018). While Twain’s novel is celebrated for its humor and satire, this study argues that its silli…
Gaming the system
Concretized Realism in Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence
The Museum of Innocence is an innovative postmodern text that fuses the literary world with the material world outside of the text. Orhan Pamuk did this by establishing a physical museum in Istanbul to complement the text after the novel’s publication in 2008. There is a crossover between the novel and the museum through the narrative of objects represented in the novel and the tangible objects on display in the museum. This paper relies on both …
From Bildungsroman to Geschäftsroman
The emergence of posthumanism and the proliferation of neoliberal rationality have not only changed the meaning of the word human, but also the status of the human. Technological autonomy overpowers and replaces human agency and the human becomes marginal and peripheral on a planetary scale; in the same manner that humans have lost control over the machine, they have also lost control over their agentic narrative on a global scale and on a litera…
Privatizing Refugees’ Human Rights in Hamid’s Exit West, Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, and Hosseini’s Sea Prayer
The contemporary novel seems to be complicit with neoliberalized and economized human rights. It is, time and again, a narrative that attempts to structurally adjust humans’ emotions to further the elitism and exclusiveness of human rights to citizens of Western countries. I argue that some modern neoliberal novels are a part of sentimental adjustment programs that strip refugees of their basic human rights, while at the same time celebrate Weste…
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Privatizing Refugees’ Human Rights in Hamid’s Exit West, Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, and Hosseini’s Sea Prayer
The contemporary novel seems to be complicit with neoliberalized and economized human rights. It is, time and again, a narrative that attempts to structurally adjust humans’ emotions to further the elitism and exclusiveness of human rights to citizens of Western countries. I argue that some modern neoliberal novels are a part of sentimental adjustment programs that strip refugees of their basic human rights, while at the same time celebrate Weste…
From Bildungsroman to Geschäftsroman
The emergence of posthumanism and the proliferation of neoliberal rationality have not only changed the meaning of the word human, but also the status of the human. Technological autonomy overpowers and replaces human agency and the human becomes marginal and peripheral on a planetary scale; in the same manner that humans have lost control over the machine, they have also lost control over their agentic narrative on a global scale and on a litera…
Concretized Realism in Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence
The Museum of Innocence is an innovative postmodern text that fuses the literary world with the material world outside of the text. Orhan Pamuk did this by establishing a physical museum in Istanbul to complement the text after the novel’s publication in 2008. There is a crossover between the novel and the museum through the narrative of objects represented in the novel and the tangible objects on display in the museum. This paper relies on both …
Sillinity as Survival
This paper explores the concept of “sillinity”, an intentional lighthearted absurdity, as a narrative strategy in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and contemporary refugee memoirs: Atef Abu Saif’s Don’t Look Left: A Diary of Genocide (2024) and Yusra Mardini’s Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian—My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph (2018). While Twain’s novel is celebrated for its humor and satire, this study argues that its silli…
Gaming the system
The Dream as a Diasporic Para‐technological Allegory in Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel
This paper examines Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel (2025) as a technological dystopia that exposes the neoliberal extension of market‐driven rationality into the human psyche. Neoliberalism attempts to extend the figure of the homo economicus into a seamless homo technologicus seeking to capture even the most intimate terrains of subjectivity—dreams, emotions, and aspirations. The novel dramatizes neoliberal ambitions to render the subconscious a…
Narrative (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Refugee (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)