Tawfiq Yousef
Biographic Data
| ID | 5663232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tawfiq Yousef |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tawfiq |
| FAMILY NAME | Yousef |
| SIGNATURE | YOUSEF T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Jordan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cultural Identity in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane: A Bhabhian Perspective
This paper explores the question of cultural identity in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003) through making specific reference to Homi Bhabha’s views of hybridity, third space, mimicry and ambivalence. Though Ali’s novel has been discussed in light of traditional postcolonialism, it has not been duly scrutinized through a dominantly Bhabhian perspective. Besides making use of Bhabha’s theories, this article draws upon the works of some other theorists…
The Dialectic of Borders and Multiculturalism in Naomi Nye’s Habibi
This paper investigates how the Arab-American writer Naomi Nye addresses the dialectic between borders and multiculturalism in her award-winning young adult novel Habibi (1997).Critiquing the essentialist view that presumes fixed boundaries for a culture, Nye promotes the alternative view that assumes individuals' power of defining and redefining their cultural identities in a multicultural society.The author argues that Nye's position is that bo…
Literary Translation: Old and New Challenges
This paper discusses the main challenges that face literary translation and literary translators. These challenges have been divided into three main categories: Linguistic, cultural, and human. The first type of challenges comes from the nature of the discipline itself since it involves the difficult task of dealing with phonological, syntactic, lexical, semantic, stylistic and pragmatic issues occurring in literary texts whose language is additi…
Translation and the Cultural Dimension A Postcolonial-Poststructuralist Approach
Writing in the early twentieth century the American linguist and anthropologist Edward Sapir put forward what has come to be known as the " Relativity Hypothesis" , which postulates that every language imposes on its speakers a different world view. What follows from this hypothesis is that intercultural communication is hard if not impossible. As Sapir puts it: No two languages are sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same s…
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Translation and the Cultural Dimension A Postcolonial-Poststructuralist Approach
Writing in the early twentieth century the American linguist and anthropologist Edward Sapir put forward what has come to be known as the " Relativity Hypothesis" , which postulates that every language imposes on its speakers a different world view. What follows from this hypothesis is that intercultural communication is hard if not impossible. As Sapir puts it: No two languages are sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same s…
Literary Translation: Old and New Challenges
This paper discusses the main challenges that face literary translation and literary translators. These challenges have been divided into three main categories: Linguistic, cultural, and human. The first type of challenges comes from the nature of the discipline itself since it involves the difficult task of dealing with phonological, syntactic, lexical, semantic, stylistic and pragmatic issues occurring in literary texts whose language is additi…
The Dialectic of Borders and Multiculturalism in Naomi Nye’s Habibi
This paper investigates how the Arab-American writer Naomi Nye addresses the dialectic between borders and multiculturalism in her award-winning young adult novel Habibi (1997).Critiquing the essentialist view that presumes fixed boundaries for a culture, Nye promotes the alternative view that assumes individuals' power of defining and redefining their cultural identities in a multicultural society.The author argues that Nye's position is that bo…
Cultural Identity in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane: A Bhabhian Perspective
This paper explores the question of cultural identity in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003) through making specific reference to Homi Bhabha’s views of hybridity, third space, mimicry and ambivalence. Though Ali’s novel has been discussed in light of traditional postcolonialism, it has not been duly scrutinized through a dominantly Bhabhian perspective. Besides making use of Bhabha’s theories, this article draws upon the works of some other theorists…
Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Ambivalence (1 works)