Raihanah M M
Biographic Data
| ID | 6153164 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raihanah M M |
| GIVEN NAMES | M M |
| FAMILY NAME | Raihanah |
| SIGNATURE | M R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Malaysia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Distribution of Grievability in Whitney Terrell’s The Good Lieutenant
This essay analyses the intrinsic worth of life and the allocation of potential suffering in Whitney Terrell’s novel The Good Lieutenant (2017). Its argument expands upon Judith Butler’s assertion that the allocation of grievability varies depending on individuals’ affinities and political circumstances. In this study, we examine two paradigms: “American Lives,” which delves into the worth and grievability of American characters, and “Local Lives…
Journeys of Change
Merantau, a migratory practice deeply embedded in Minangkabau culture, has traditionally been associated with men leaving their homeland to pursue education or economic opportunities, in line with the saying alam takambang menjadi guru (the unfolding earth becomes the teacher). Drawing on Khatijah Sidek’s Memoirs of Khatijah Sidek: Puteri Kesateria Bangsa, this article examines how a Khatijah, as a woman, reconfigures merantau in the colonial and…
Trauma, Healing and Narrative in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You
Traumatic experiences are often claimed as unspeakable and beyond the reach of language. Nevertheless, literature has always found a way to express these inexpressible pains and depict the traumatic experiences of its characters. Using Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You, this study explores trauma narrative within a mixed-race family dealing with the hidden pain of loss in 1970s America. This novel is very detailed in depicting the racial, …
Authorial Voices and Minority Realities
This research paper examines the narratives of South Indian Muslim women writers across three distinct waves: the first wave (late 19th to early 20th century), the second wave (mid to late 20th century), and the third wave (21st century). It explores how these writers articulate their experiences and social realities within the minority contexts of South India, utilising W.E.B. Du Bois' concept of "double consciousness" to analyse the internal co…
Utopia and Dystopia in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers
This article explores the themes of utopia and dystopia as depicted by Nadeem Aslam in his novel, Maps for Lost Lovers which centers on the Pakistani immigrant community in a small English town.. The town serves as a critical element, a utopia for some characters and a dystopia for others. The perception of the place depends on their adaptability or adherence to their original culture. The protagonist, Kaukab, represents the older generation, per…
Fanfiction, drillability, and transmedia exploration
Transmedia storytelling has increasingly destabilized the traditional binary between heroism and villainy by enabling complex character development across multiple platforms. This paper examines how such storytelling, alongside participatory fan cultures, reshapes the villain archetype through a case study of the Joker, long emblematic of chaotic malevolence in the DC Comics universe. Focusing on the Wattpad fanfiction Broken Steel (2023) by Ador…
Forging Alternative Resistance Through Empathy in Sahar Khalifeh's Wild Thorns
Until recently, Palestinian nonviolent resistance has historically been overshadowed by the narrative of armed and violent resistance. This article contends that the reality of Palestinian resistance is relatively nonviolent and explores alternative nonviolent approaches drawing on Sahar Khalifeh's novel Wild Thorns. Originally published in 1976 and translated into English in 1985, Khalifeh's novel serves as a blueprint for nonviolent resistance,…
Clashing Dialectics of Victimhood in Iraq War Narratives
This paper examines the dialectics of victimhood and the associated liability for war atrocities in David Abrams’s Fobbit and Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer. It contrasts the perspectives of Abrams, an American veteran of the 2003 war in Iraq, with Antoon, an Iraqi civilian, shedding light on their differing portrayals of the American-led invasion. Victimhood serves as a central theme in war narratives, providing both justification for violence…
“So much about myself I didn’t understand”
This paper presents the problems of a lost identity in My Place, an Australian aboriginal autobiography by Sally Morgan. Albeit literary critics have questioned the 'indigeneity' and 'reality' concerning the narration of stolen generation, this paper situates the reading of My Place within the issue of (un)making and recuperation of socio-cultural consciousness of the self. Through the lens of rememory as an exercise of recollection and rediscove…
Eco-Mysticism in Pablo Neruda’s Selected Poetry
Eco-poetry as a modern literary theory is a branch of ecocriticism which focuses on the relationship between man and the physical world. Using the Latin American Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda’s selected poetry, this paper sets out to explore the themes of mystical and spiritual consciousness through eco-poetical evidence. This study utilizes the theoretical framework of eco-poetry to illuminate the dual ecological and mystical phenomenon, both …
Moulding Lives, Shaping Destinies
Female narratives hold an important place in literature as it tells stories from women’s perspectives, spatially and temporally. In Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi and A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam, the female characters play a significant role in determining the outcome of the story as their personal narratives run parallel to the history of Oman and Bangladesh in the 1970s, respectively. The paper examines the intersectionality of gendered na…
Growing Up with Ghosts
Communicating stories matter when writers highlight the dynamics of mining the most private experiences for material. Whether humiliating or painful, it is often in the hands of writers that stories are made profound, interesting and fascinating. Yet, to readers, vivid scenarios, specific identification, convincing characters and real-life snapshots, just to name a few, present insights into human condition. Malaysian writers who report such inve…
Manufacturing Fear in Post-9/11 American Novel
To illustrate the systematic means by which the Muslim other is turned into a source of anguish and horror, we coin the term manufacturing fear. Manufacturing fear is the systematized process of creating and constructing fear of the other. It occurs through regularized procedures and techniques in an almost persistent mood. Through these methods, the other is shaped into an awful entity with more-beast-like qualities as his/her definitive feature…
Survival Psychology in Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds
After experiencing the American war in Iraq as a machine gunner in the U.S. Army, Kevin Powers deliberates on war and the risks surrounding the lives of all those involved in his debut novel, The Yellow Birds . This paper aims to uncover the survival psychology that underlies the behaviour of the two main characters in the novel, Private John Bartle and Private Daniel Murphy as well as other minor characters. Survival psychology expounds unpredic…
Architectures of Enmity in Andre Dubus III’s The Garden of Last Days
In the aftermath of 9/11 terrorist attacks, Islam and Muslims became the subject of representation in the American literary milieu. American novelist Andre Dubus III was one of those who have appropriated the attacks directly by characterizing 9/11 hijackers within his bestseller novel, The Garden of Last Days (2009). This paper sets out to investigate Andre Dubus’ III demonstration of Islam and Muslims in line with their association with terrori…
Ecoethical Significance of Wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s Selected Poems
This paper explores the ecoethical vision and ecological awareness in the selected poems of Pablo Neruda, a Nobel Prize winning poet of Latin American descent who was well known as a political poet. The structural and thematic analysis of the study will focus on the concept of ‘Ethics’ as one of the components of ecopoetry, which is the new brand of nature poetry and one of the components of ecocriticism which investigates the human-nature relati…
Grafting Eco-Diasporic Identity in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Selected Novels
This paper is based on three selected novels entitled Does My Head Look Big In This? (2005), Ten Things I Hate About Me (2006), and Where The Streets Had A Name (2008) written by Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979), a Palestinian-Egyptian Australian Muslim diasporic writer. In this article, we examine the manifestations of grafting eco-diasporic identity by Abdel-Fattah in order to address how identity graft is operated by interacting with ideology, cultur…
Growing Up with Ghosts
Communicating stories matter when writers highlight the dynamics of mining the most private experiences for material. Whether humiliating or painful, it is often in the hands of writers that stories are made profound, interesting and fascinating. Yet, to readers, vivid scenarios, specific identification, convincing characters and real-life snapshots, just to name a few, present insights into human condition. Malaysian writers who report such inve…
Ecoethical Significance of Wilderness in Pablo Neruda’s Selected Poems
This paper explores the ecoethical vision and ecological awareness in the selected poems of Pablo Neruda, a Nobel Prize winning poet of Latin American descent who was well known as a political poet. The structural and thematic analysis of the study will focus on the concept of ‘Ethics’ as one of the components of ecopoetry, which is the new brand of nature poetry and one of the components of ecocriticism which investigates the human-nature relati…
Grafting Eco-Diasporic Identity in Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Selected Novels
This paper is based on three selected novels entitled Does My Head Look Big In This? (2005), Ten Things I Hate About Me (2006), and Where The Streets Had A Name (2008) written by Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979), a Palestinian-Egyptian Australian Muslim diasporic writer. In this article, we examine the manifestations of grafting eco-diasporic identity by Abdel-Fattah in order to address how identity graft is operated by interacting with ideology, cultur…
Architectures of Enmity in Andre Dubus III’s The Garden of Last Days
In the aftermath of 9/11 terrorist attacks, Islam and Muslims became the subject of representation in the American literary milieu. American novelist Andre Dubus III was one of those who have appropriated the attacks directly by characterizing 9/11 hijackers within his bestseller novel, The Garden of Last Days (2009). This paper sets out to investigate Andre Dubus’ III demonstration of Islam and Muslims in line with their association with terrori…
Survival Psychology in Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds
After experiencing the American war in Iraq as a machine gunner in the U.S. Army, Kevin Powers deliberates on war and the risks surrounding the lives of all those involved in his debut novel, The Yellow Birds . This paper aims to uncover the survival psychology that underlies the behaviour of the two main characters in the novel, Private John Bartle and Private Daniel Murphy as well as other minor characters. Survival psychology expounds unpredic…
Manufacturing Fear in Post-9/11 American Novel
To illustrate the systematic means by which the Muslim other is turned into a source of anguish and horror, we coin the term manufacturing fear. Manufacturing fear is the systematized process of creating and constructing fear of the other. It occurs through regularized procedures and techniques in an almost persistent mood. Through these methods, the other is shaped into an awful entity with more-beast-like qualities as his/her definitive feature…
Eco-Mysticism in Pablo Neruda’s Selected Poetry
Eco-poetry as a modern literary theory is a branch of ecocriticism which focuses on the relationship between man and the physical world. Using the Latin American Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda’s selected poetry, this paper sets out to explore the themes of mystical and spiritual consciousness through eco-poetical evidence. This study utilizes the theoretical framework of eco-poetry to illuminate the dual ecological and mystical phenomenon, both …
Moulding Lives, Shaping Destinies
Female narratives hold an important place in literature as it tells stories from women’s perspectives, spatially and temporally. In Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi and A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam, the female characters play a significant role in determining the outcome of the story as their personal narratives run parallel to the history of Oman and Bangladesh in the 1970s, respectively. The paper examines the intersectionality of gendered na…
Growing Up with Ghosts
Communicating stories matter when writers highlight the dynamics of mining the most private experiences for material. Whether humiliating or painful, it is often in the hands of writers that stories are made profound, interesting and fascinating. Yet, to readers, vivid scenarios, specific identification, convincing characters and real-life snapshots, just to name a few, present insights into human condition. Malaysian writers who report such inve…
“So much about myself I didn’t understand”
This paper presents the problems of a lost identity in My Place, an Australian aboriginal autobiography by Sally Morgan. Albeit literary critics have questioned the 'indigeneity' and 'reality' concerning the narration of stolen generation, this paper situates the reading of My Place within the issue of (un)making and recuperation of socio-cultural consciousness of the self. Through the lens of rememory as an exercise of recollection and rediscove…
Forging Alternative Resistance Through Empathy in Sahar Khalifeh's Wild Thorns
Until recently, Palestinian nonviolent resistance has historically been overshadowed by the narrative of armed and violent resistance. This article contends that the reality of Palestinian resistance is relatively nonviolent and explores alternative nonviolent approaches drawing on Sahar Khalifeh's novel Wild Thorns. Originally published in 1976 and translated into English in 1985, Khalifeh's novel serves as a blueprint for nonviolent resistance,…
Clashing Dialectics of Victimhood in Iraq War Narratives
This paper examines the dialectics of victimhood and the associated liability for war atrocities in David Abrams’s Fobbit and Sinan Antoon’s The Corpse Washer. It contrasts the perspectives of Abrams, an American veteran of the 2003 war in Iraq, with Antoon, an Iraqi civilian, shedding light on their differing portrayals of the American-led invasion. Victimhood serves as a central theme in war narratives, providing both justification for violence…
Trauma, Healing and Narrative in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You
Traumatic experiences are often claimed as unspeakable and beyond the reach of language. Nevertheless, literature has always found a way to express these inexpressible pains and depict the traumatic experiences of its characters. Using Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You, this study explores trauma narrative within a mixed-race family dealing with the hidden pain of loss in 1970s America. This novel is very detailed in depicting the racial, …
Authorial Voices and Minority Realities
This research paper examines the narratives of South Indian Muslim women writers across three distinct waves: the first wave (late 19th to early 20th century), the second wave (mid to late 20th century), and the third wave (21st century). It explores how these writers articulate their experiences and social realities within the minority contexts of South India, utilising W.E.B. Du Bois' concept of "double consciousness" to analyse the internal co…
Utopia and Dystopia in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers
This article explores the themes of utopia and dystopia as depicted by Nadeem Aslam in his novel, Maps for Lost Lovers which centers on the Pakistani immigrant community in a small English town.. The town serves as a critical element, a utopia for some characters and a dystopia for others. The perception of the place depends on their adaptability or adherence to their original culture. The protagonist, Kaukab, represents the older generation, per…
Fanfiction, drillability, and transmedia exploration
Transmedia storytelling has increasingly destabilized the traditional binary between heroism and villainy by enabling complex character development across multiple platforms. This paper examines how such storytelling, alongside participatory fan cultures, reshapes the villain archetype through a case study of the Joker, long emblematic of chaotic malevolence in the DC Comics universe. Focusing on the Wattpad fanfiction Broken Steel (2023) by Ador…
The Distribution of Grievability in Whitney Terrell’s The Good Lieutenant
This essay analyses the intrinsic worth of life and the allocation of potential suffering in Whitney Terrell’s novel The Good Lieutenant (2017). Its argument expands upon Judith Butler’s assertion that the allocation of grievability varies depending on individuals’ affinities and political circumstances. In this study, we examine two paradigms: “American Lives,” which delves into the worth and grievability of American characters, and “Local Lives…
Journeys of Change
Merantau, a migratory practice deeply embedded in Minangkabau culture, has traditionally been associated with men leaving their homeland to pursue education or economic opportunities, in line with the saying alam takambang menjadi guru (the unfolding earth becomes the teacher). Drawing on Khatijah Sidek’s Memoirs of Khatijah Sidek: Puteri Kesateria Bangsa, this article examines how a Khatijah, as a woman, reconfigures merantau in the colonial and…
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