Mohamad Rashidi Mohd Pakri
Biographic Data
| ID | 7548264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohamad Rashidi Mohd Pakri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohamad Rashidi Mohd |
| FAMILY NAME | Pakri |
| SIGNATURE | PAKRI M R M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Identifying and quantifying literary intimacy with ChatGPT: A computational reading of Great Expectations
As intimacy has garnered increasing attention in sociology and psychology, its systematic study in literary scholarship remains predominantly rooted in qualitative close reading and interpretive analysis. To address this gap, this study introduces a novel computational framework for identifying and quantifying intimacy dynamics in literary texts. Leveraging GPT-4, we construct the first multi-layered intimacy corpus comprising over 12,000 verbal …
Reimagining Chinese American Identity: Postcolonial Perspectives on Cultural Negotiation and Transformation in Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings
The Chinese immigrant and Chinese American communities have faced a long history of stigmatisation and misrepresentation due to racial bias and discrimination. This article explores the transformative growth narrative of the child protagonist in Laurence Yep’s novel Dragonwings, set against the backdrop of historical anti-Asian sentiment in the early 1900s. By adopting Said’s “imaginative geography” and Bhabha’s “third space” as analytical perspe…
Tracing Issues of the Deferred/Differed Contemporary Australian Jewish Identity: Bavati’s Dancing in the Dark and Brous’ I Am Max Lamm under the Deconstructive Lens
This study attempts to deconstruct Bavati’s Dancing in the Dark (2010) and Brous’ I Am Max Lamm (2011) to discuss the contemporary social-psychological identity features portrayed within the overall ethno-religious Australian Jewish identity perspective in these texts. Highlighting the bidirectional relationship between the social-psychological identity perspective (Breakwell, 1986), at the narrower level, and the overall ethno-religious Australi…
The Modern Malay: A Comparative Study of Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957) and Mahathir Mohamad’s The Malay Dilemma (1970)
This article examines the representations of the modern Malay in Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957), which is set against the backdrop of historical events in British Malaya, including the Japanese Occupation. An important historical commentary on Malay life and modernising Malaya, the novel invites us to revisit the ingrained scholarly views about colonial writers as well as the contemporary racial discourse about the Malay. Using a new historic…
Pre-9/11 Politics of Islamophobia and Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album (1995)
The rising tide of Islamophobia and the consequent acts of violence pertaining to it over the past couple of years, is inflicting misery on Muslims living across the globe. This situation calls for a clear understanding of the phenomenon of Islamophobia. Using the New Historicist approach, this paper embarks on reading Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album (1995) in the backdrop of the politics of Islamophobia in the pre-9/11 context. It thus attempts…
A colonial by acquisition: Ambivalent subjectivity in Agnes Keith's Land Below the Wind
This article analyses the representation of the colonial British in Land Below the Wind (1939), an autobiographical travelogue by Agnes Newton Keith, the American wife of a British colonial officer in North Borneo. Whilst acknowledging the book's expressions of affection and qualified support for the British and their empire, the focus of our reading will be on several dramatic moments of imaginative and empathetic transgression from the more det…
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A colonial by acquisition: Ambivalent subjectivity in Agnes Keith's Land Below the Wind
This article analyses the representation of the colonial British in Land Below the Wind (1939), an autobiographical travelogue by Agnes Newton Keith, the American wife of a British colonial officer in North Borneo. Whilst acknowledging the book's expressions of affection and qualified support for the British and their empire, the focus of our reading will be on several dramatic moments of imaginative and empathetic transgression from the more det…
Pre-9/11 Politics of Islamophobia and Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album (1995)
The rising tide of Islamophobia and the consequent acts of violence pertaining to it over the past couple of years, is inflicting misery on Muslims living across the globe. This situation calls for a clear understanding of the phenomenon of Islamophobia. Using the New Historicist approach, this paper embarks on reading Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album (1995) in the backdrop of the politics of Islamophobia in the pre-9/11 context. It thus attempts…
The Modern Malay: A Comparative Study of Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957) and Mahathir Mohamad’s The Malay Dilemma (1970)
This article examines the representations of the modern Malay in Katherine Sim’s Malacca Boy (1957), which is set against the backdrop of historical events in British Malaya, including the Japanese Occupation. An important historical commentary on Malay life and modernising Malaya, the novel invites us to revisit the ingrained scholarly views about colonial writers as well as the contemporary racial discourse about the Malay. Using a new historic…
Reimagining Chinese American Identity: Postcolonial Perspectives on Cultural Negotiation and Transformation in Laurence Yep’s Dragonwings
The Chinese immigrant and Chinese American communities have faced a long history of stigmatisation and misrepresentation due to racial bias and discrimination. This article explores the transformative growth narrative of the child protagonist in Laurence Yep’s novel Dragonwings, set against the backdrop of historical anti-Asian sentiment in the early 1900s. By adopting Said’s “imaginative geography” and Bhabha’s “third space” as analytical perspe…
Tracing Issues of the Deferred/Differed Contemporary Australian Jewish Identity: Bavati’s Dancing in the Dark and Brous’ I Am Max Lamm under the Deconstructive Lens
This study attempts to deconstruct Bavati’s Dancing in the Dark (2010) and Brous’ I Am Max Lamm (2011) to discuss the contemporary social-psychological identity features portrayed within the overall ethno-religious Australian Jewish identity perspective in these texts. Highlighting the bidirectional relationship between the social-psychological identity perspective (Breakwell, 1986), at the narrower level, and the overall ethno-religious Australi…
Identifying and quantifying literary intimacy with ChatGPT: A computational reading of Great Expectations
As intimacy has garnered increasing attention in sociology and psychology, its systematic study in literary scholarship remains predominantly rooted in qualitative close reading and interpretive analysis. To address this gap, this study introduces a novel computational framework for identifying and quantifying intimacy dynamics in literary texts. Leveraging GPT-4, we construct the first multi-layered intimacy corpus comprising over 12,000 verbal …
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