Bilal Tawfiq Hamamra
Biographic Data
| ID | 642525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bilal Tawfiq Hamamra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bilal Tawfiq |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamamra |
| SIGNATURE | HAMAMRA B T |
| AFFILIATIONS | An-Najah National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disowning Daughters in Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet
Disowning Daughters in Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 35(1), pp. 26–27
They are all but stomachs, and we are all but food”
“They are all but stomachs, and we are all but food”: Women and Food in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Othello." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Deconstructing Wo(man) and Animal Binary in Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), the protagonist of which is an eleven year old black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who dreams of having blue eyes, reveals the interrelated web of racism, sexism an
Here I Disclaim All My Paternal Care”
The centrality of family relationships to Shakespeare plays is well known. “Shakespeare’s art,” wrote C. L. Barber, “is distinguished by the intensity of its investment in the human family, and esp
Speak of me as I am”
Death and desire on the part of protagonists to defy erasure of the self by securing a place in memory and discourse are central to Renaissance tragedies. As Neill points out, early modern English
Love and Be Silent”
Shakespeare’s King Lear (1605) represents silence as a subjective space of truth, honesty, and rebellion against unjust speech as manifested in the figure of Cordelia, who is linked to silence thro
Alice Walker’s “am I Blue?”
Alice Walker’s “Am I Blue?” (1986), the protagonist of which is a horse named Blue, reveals Walker’s interest in animals and her criticism of the harsh ways human beings treat them. Walker points o
A Reference to Shakespeare’s Othello in Samar Attar’s Lina
The Syrian novelist and poet, Samar Attar, uses Shakespeare’s Othello as an intertext in her Bildungsroman, Lina: Lawhat fatat dimashqiyyah (1982). The novel, translated into English in 1994 under
The Bereavement of Martyred Palestinian Children
Using interviews with Palestinian parents and drawing on theories of bereavement, memory and trauma, in this important book, Maram Masarwi examines Palestinian parents’ experiences of bereavement
“I pray sir, hear me
This article follows the critical lines of new historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and performance studies so as to reveal Webster’s challenge of the conventional gender roles via the binary opposites of speech and silence. Within the context of new historicism, I contend that Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (1613–1614) comments on the corruption and abuse of absolute political power within the reign of King James I and the Catholic Church throu…
“What’s in a Name?”
Published in the same year, 1999, Edward Said’s Out of Place and Mahmoud Darwish’s “Mural” amplify eulogical voices of the dying self. Despite the sombre theme dominating both works as swansongs, Darwish and Said manage to subvert it to transform their works into ghostly texts. In this essay we examine the aesthetics of the proper name and diasporic identities as represented in the aforementioned works, employing Derrida’s theory of the ghostline…
The dialectics of honour and shame in Middleton’s The Changeling and contemporary Palestine
This article follows the critical lines of new historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and presentism so as to scrutinise the destructive practices of enforced marriage and turning a deaf ear to the female voice in Middleton’s The Changeling and contemporary Palestine. The eclectic range of critics I am employing opens up gender-based readings in the teaching context of the Department of English Language and Literature at An-Najah University where …
Jerusalem and Arabia in Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam
Elizbeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam (1613), the first dramatic text authored by a female playwright in the English literary tradition, suggests that Jerusalem shapes the play’s racial, national
My Narrow-Prying Neighbors Blab”
The Arden of Faversham (1592) shows that gossip is a hegemonic discourse that fosters Alice Arden’s adulterous and murderous desires so as to crush it and assert male dominant power. In her discuss
The misogynist representation of women in Palestinian oral tradition
This paper, which engages with the critical lines of feminism and sociolinguistics and employs interviews as its central methodology, introduces readers to the ways Palestinian proverbs reinforce a contemporary Palestinian ideology of gender difference based on subjugating women to men's authority. The paper analyses Palestinian proverbs about women alongside contemporary Palestinian practices including: arranged marriage; objectifying women in t…
Tell thou my lord thou saw’st me lose my breath”
Historicist and materialist feminist criticisms have shown how early modern gender ideology associated women’s speech and writing with sexual looseness (Newman 40, 10–11; Callaghan, Women and Gende
The Gendering of the Ear in Early Modern England
The Gendering of the Ear in Early Modern England." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 32(4), pp. 225–226
The Convention of the Boy Actor in Early Modern Tragedies
The social condemnation of female voices in early modern England is illuminated by the exclusion of women from the public stage, for a female actor would have been a vocal woman who transgressed th
A Reference to Shakespeare’s Othello in Fadia Faqir’s Willow Tress Don’t Weep
Mahmoud Darwish
Straddling the boundaries between poetry and prose, ethno-religious studies, comparative literature and onomastics, Dalya Cohen-Mor’s Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine’s Poet and the Other as the Beloved
A Presentist, Palestinian, Pedagogical Reading of Language and Gender Politics in Middleton’s Women Beware Women
In addition to the methodology of new historicism, this article deploys feminism, performance studies and presentism to discuss the effects of the masculine practice of enforced marriage and turning a deaf ear to the female voice in Thomas Middleton’sWomen Beware Women and contemporary Palestine. I explain that Middleton’s Women Beware Women criminalises the absolute right of the monarch to command through a critique of Renaissance practice of en…
Witness and martyrdom
During the second Intifada which started in 2000 and ended sometime in mid 2000s, Palestinian male and female martyrs used video testimonies, records and documents of death, using the first person pronoun so as to articulate their missions and justifications for carrying out their acts of martyrdom. This study, which focuses on Palestinian female martyrs’ video-testimonies, investigates the elusive relationship between martyrdom and witness. I co…
Never shame to hear / What you have nobly done’
This article focuses on the uncanny prefigurations of existentialism in Shakespeare's final tragedy Coriolanus (1608). The researcher contends that Coriolanus is riddled with the existential concepts of individualism, authenticity, the relationship between the self and the other, the dynamics of subjectivity and objectification, the other gaze, shame, bleeding, blush and bodily and linguistic abhorrence. Shakespeare suggests that Coriolanus exper…
The misogynist representation of women in Palestinian oral tradition
This paper, which engages with the critical lines of feminism and sociolinguistics and employs interviews as its central methodology, introduces readers to the ways Palestinian proverbs reinforce a contemporary Palestinian ideology of gender difference based on subjugating women to men's authority. The paper analyses Palestinian proverbs about women alongside contemporary Palestinian practices including: arranged marriage; objectifying women in t…
Never shame to hear / What you have nobly done’
This article focuses on the uncanny prefigurations of existentialism in Shakespeare's final tragedy Coriolanus (1608). The researcher contends that Coriolanus is riddled with the existential concepts of individualism, authenticity, the relationship between the self and the other, the dynamics of subjectivity and objectification, the other gaze, shame, bleeding, blush and bodily and linguistic abhorrence. Shakespeare suggests that Coriolanus exper…
A Presentist, Palestinian, Pedagogical Reading of Language and Gender Politics in Middleton’s Women Beware Women
In addition to the methodology of new historicism, this article deploys feminism, performance studies and presentism to discuss the effects of the masculine practice of enforced marriage and turning a deaf ear to the female voice in Thomas Middleton’sWomen Beware Women and contemporary Palestine. I explain that Middleton’s Women Beware Women criminalises the absolute right of the monarch to command through a critique of Renaissance practice of en…
Witness and martyrdom
During the second Intifada which started in 2000 and ended sometime in mid 2000s, Palestinian male and female martyrs used video testimonies, records and documents of death, using the first person pronoun so as to articulate their missions and justifications for carrying out their acts of martyrdom. This study, which focuses on Palestinian female martyrs’ video-testimonies, investigates the elusive relationship between martyrdom and witness. I co…
Tell thou my lord thou saw’st me lose my breath”
Historicist and materialist feminist criticisms have shown how early modern gender ideology associated women’s speech and writing with sexual looseness (Newman 40, 10–11; Callaghan, Women and Gende
The Gendering of the Ear in Early Modern England
The Gendering of the Ear in Early Modern England." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 32(4), pp. 225–226
The Convention of the Boy Actor in Early Modern Tragedies
The social condemnation of female voices in early modern England is illuminated by the exclusion of women from the public stage, for a female actor would have been a vocal woman who transgressed th
A Reference to Shakespeare’s Othello in Fadia Faqir’s Willow Tress Don’t Weep
Mahmoud Darwish
Straddling the boundaries between poetry and prose, ethno-religious studies, comparative literature and onomastics, Dalya Cohen-Mor’s Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine’s Poet and the Other as the Beloved
“I pray sir, hear me
This article follows the critical lines of new historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and performance studies so as to reveal Webster’s challenge of the conventional gender roles via the binary opposites of speech and silence. Within the context of new historicism, I contend that Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (1613–1614) comments on the corruption and abuse of absolute political power within the reign of King James I and the Catholic Church throu…
“What’s in a Name?”
Published in the same year, 1999, Edward Said’s Out of Place and Mahmoud Darwish’s “Mural” amplify eulogical voices of the dying self. Despite the sombre theme dominating both works as swansongs, Darwish and Said manage to subvert it to transform their works into ghostly texts. In this essay we examine the aesthetics of the proper name and diasporic identities as represented in the aforementioned works, employing Derrida’s theory of the ghostline…
The dialectics of honour and shame in Middleton’s The Changeling and contemporary Palestine
This article follows the critical lines of new historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis and presentism so as to scrutinise the destructive practices of enforced marriage and turning a deaf ear to the female voice in Middleton’s The Changeling and contemporary Palestine. The eclectic range of critics I am employing opens up gender-based readings in the teaching context of the Department of English Language and Literature at An-Najah University where …
Jerusalem and Arabia in Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam
Elizbeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam (1613), the first dramatic text authored by a female playwright in the English literary tradition, suggests that Jerusalem shapes the play’s racial, national
My Narrow-Prying Neighbors Blab”
The Arden of Faversham (1592) shows that gossip is a hegemonic discourse that fosters Alice Arden’s adulterous and murderous desires so as to crush it and assert male dominant power. In her discuss
The misogynist representation of women in Palestinian oral tradition
This paper, which engages with the critical lines of feminism and sociolinguistics and employs interviews as its central methodology, introduces readers to the ways Palestinian proverbs reinforce a contemporary Palestinian ideology of gender difference based on subjugating women to men's authority. The paper analyses Palestinian proverbs about women alongside contemporary Palestinian practices including: arranged marriage; objectifying women in t…
Love and Be Silent”
Shakespeare’s King Lear (1605) represents silence as a subjective space of truth, honesty, and rebellion against unjust speech as manifested in the figure of Cordelia, who is linked to silence thro
Alice Walker’s “am I Blue?”
Alice Walker’s “Am I Blue?” (1986), the protagonist of which is a horse named Blue, reveals Walker’s interest in animals and her criticism of the harsh ways human beings treat them. Walker points o
A Reference to Shakespeare’s Othello in Samar Attar’s Lina
The Syrian novelist and poet, Samar Attar, uses Shakespeare’s Othello as an intertext in her Bildungsroman, Lina: Lawhat fatat dimashqiyyah (1982). The novel, translated into English in 1994 under
The Bereavement of Martyred Palestinian Children
Using interviews with Palestinian parents and drawing on theories of bereavement, memory and trauma, in this important book, Maram Masarwi examines Palestinian parents’ experiences of bereavement
Disowning Daughters in Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet
Disowning Daughters in Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 35(1), pp. 26–27
They are all but stomachs, and we are all but food”
“They are all but stomachs, and we are all but food”: Women and Food in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Othello." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Deconstructing Wo(man) and Animal Binary in Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970), the protagonist of which is an eleven year old black girl, Pecola Breedlove, who dreams of having blue eyes, reveals the interrelated web of racism, sexism an
Here I Disclaim All My Paternal Care”
The centrality of family relationships to Shakespeare plays is well known. “Shakespeare’s art,” wrote C. L. Barber, “is distinguished by the intensity of its investment in the human family, and esp
Speak of me as I am”
Death and desire on the part of protagonists to defy erasure of the self by securing a place in memory and discourse are central to Renaissance tragedies. As Neill points out, early modern English
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