Arbaayah Ali Termizi
Biographic Data
| ID | 817926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arbaayah Ali Termizi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arbaayah Ali |
| FAMILY NAME | Termizi |
| SIGNATURE | TERMIZI A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Putra Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9626-1701 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cultural Integration Through Sensory Walks in Han Suyin’s Till Morning Comes
Despite its rich thematic scope, Till Morning Comes (1982) by Asian American mixed-race writer, Han Suyin has received limited critical attention, particularly regarding its psychogeographical dimensions. This article addresses this gap by exploring the sensory walks of the diasporic female protagonist, whose movement through spaces is enriched by a heightened multisensory engagement. Walking is viewed as a physical act that anchors her diasporic…
Intercultural Spectacle in Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A)
At the turn of the 21st century, the advent of instantaneous transmission and hyperlinking within hyperspace and cyberspace facilitated the proliferation of digital archives. Meanwhile, the surge of Asian intercultural Shakespeare adaptations necessitated the establishment of corresponding digital archives to collect and conserve these Asian-related Shakespeare performances. However, most existing archives are monolingual, with English being the …
Mixed-Race Flâneuse: Identity Quest Through Flânerie in Han Suyin’s The Mountain Is Young
The French term flâneur, someone who wanders without a purpose, was coined in the early 19th century. Hazel considers flâneur as particularly relevant to travel because its definition is associated
Home in Han Suyin’s 'Till Morning Comes' from the Perspective of New Cultural Geography
Viewed through the lens of new cultural geography, a geographical landscape is a symbolic system showing the beliefs and values of society, as in the case of the home landscape. The article employs Mike Crang’s concepts of landscape and home to examine different homes in Han Suyin’s Till Morning Comes (1982). From leaving homes, searching for homes to returning homes, Stephanie, an American woman in diaspora, is exposed to different cultures, exp…
Xenophobia as the major plight of African immigrants in South Africa: The example of Epiphanie Mukasano's selected poems
The attacks on African immigrants in South Africa have generated a lot of media attention both within and outside the country. This issue has not yet garnered enough critical attention in the field of literature, especially poetry. The purpose of this research is to analyse selected poems from Epiphanie Mukasano's collection Kilimanjaro on My Lap (2010) that discuss the hardships of African immigrants in South Africa. For the purposes of this stu…
Reclaiming Subjectivity through the Maternal Abject in Janie Chang’s Three Souls
Three Souls by Janie Chang focuses on a changing transformative time in China’s history—the 1930s. During this period, China was experiencing political and societal shifts that prompted gender equality movements. Song Leiyin, the female protagonist in Three Souls, embodies the experiences of women during this period. She is an ambitious and desiring woman who lives in a family and society that restricts women's roles and abilities. As a woman wit…
Social Stratification As A Catalyst For Xenophobia In Kenneth Maswabi's Poems
This research aims to analyse selected poems from the anthology, Collection of Poems by Kenneth Maswabi (2020), that deal with social stratification as a source of xenophobia. Postcolonial theory is selected and adopted for the purpose of analysis of the texts under study. The purpose of applying postcolonial theory is to appropriately contextualize the text while analyzing it from a postcolonial standpoint. To address the impact of xenophobia an…
Abject Desires in Lisa See’s Peony in Love
The establishment of the Manchu led-Qing dynasty in 1636 led to the continuation of Confucianism as the dominant belief system in China. Based on these Confucian principles of patrilineality and patrilocality, women were expected to portray exemplary feminine virtues that required them to remain subservient and obedient to the men in her family. This oppressive practice placed women lower in the hierarchy as, unlike men, they were denied the mean…
Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics: Critical Inquiries from Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
The Tropics have long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a geographical region virtually uninhabitable to temperate peoples due to the hostility of its climate, and persisted in colonial imaginaries of the tropics as pestilential latitudes requiring slave labour. The tropical sites of colonialism gave rise to urgent studies of tropical di…
Negotiating Existential Concerns of Death and Meaninglessness through the Grotesque in Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost
Grotesque and existentialism in the field of literature generally raise four points. On the one hand, the grotesque has always been associated with negative connotation elements that usually include deformity, death, violence or monstrosity. In fact, the grotesque often carries pejorative connotations for it challenges traditions and deviates from what is accepted as the norm. On the other hand, existentialism, traced way back to as early as the …
Order in Disorder: Exploring Chaos Theory in the Narrative Structure of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club
Chaologists believe that our actions, albeit small, play prominent roles in shaping the reality which we live in. It is believed that within the chaotic nature of our world, there is a complex system in its randomness. Yet, these seemingly random events have organised patterns such as weather and natural events which may be constantly predicted but they never be completely predetermined. This is the basis of chaos theory which identifies and exam…
The Visible Flâneuse in Chan Ling Yap’s Where the Sunrise is Red
Malaysia’s historical image in literature has almost always been exotically depicted. In some parts of literary works, geographical and physical settings serve merely as a literary device. The overwhelming depictions of characters’ geographical movements and relationship with their cities in the novel, Where the Sunrise is Red sparks the current resurgence to explore the visibility of the female protagonists in terms of their representations in t…
From Natural Selection to the Sentient Symphony of Life: A Chaotic Reading of Wertenbaker’s After Darwin
Darwin’s theory of evolution was shaken to the core by the discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and entropy. While it accentuates that the world has evolved from simple to complex, and it moves from disorder to order, the second law preaches the opposite totally. Such inconsistency remains unsolved until the advent of chaos theory, which emphasises that the universe has the capacity to renew itself from within through a process called se…
“Un-Romanticized” Love in Anthony and Cleopatra and The Taming of the Shrew
Among Shakespeare’s plays revolving around the theme of love, Anthony and Cleopatra and The Taming of the Shrew develop an un-romanticized attitude by focusing on carnal realities, reinforced through the imagery associated with Cleopatra and Katherine as well as the banquet occasions. In these two plays, the theme of love acquires a carnivalesque approach through which debasement is experienced as a part of love rapports. This paper discusses gro…
Xenophobia as the major plight of African immigrants in South Africa: The example of Epiphanie Mukasano's selected poems
The attacks on African immigrants in South Africa have generated a lot of media attention both within and outside the country. This issue has not yet garnered enough critical attention in the field of literature, especially poetry. The purpose of this research is to analyse selected poems from Epiphanie Mukasano's collection Kilimanjaro on My Lap (2010) that discuss the hardships of African immigrants in South Africa. For the purposes of this stu…
“Un-Romanticized” Love in Anthony and Cleopatra and The Taming of the Shrew
Among Shakespeare’s plays revolving around the theme of love, Anthony and Cleopatra and The Taming of the Shrew develop an un-romanticized attitude by focusing on carnal realities, reinforced through the imagery associated with Cleopatra and Katherine as well as the banquet occasions. In these two plays, the theme of love acquires a carnivalesque approach through which debasement is experienced as a part of love rapports. This paper discusses gro…
From Natural Selection to the Sentient Symphony of Life: A Chaotic Reading of Wertenbaker’s After Darwin
Darwin’s theory of evolution was shaken to the core by the discovery of the second law of thermodynamics and entropy. While it accentuates that the world has evolved from simple to complex, and it moves from disorder to order, the second law preaches the opposite totally. Such inconsistency remains unsolved until the advent of chaos theory, which emphasises that the universe has the capacity to renew itself from within through a process called se…
Negotiating Existential Concerns of Death and Meaninglessness through the Grotesque in Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost
Grotesque and existentialism in the field of literature generally raise four points. On the one hand, the grotesque has always been associated with negative connotation elements that usually include deformity, death, violence or monstrosity. In fact, the grotesque often carries pejorative connotations for it challenges traditions and deviates from what is accepted as the norm. On the other hand, existentialism, traced way back to as early as the …
Order in Disorder: Exploring Chaos Theory in the Narrative Structure of Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club
Chaologists believe that our actions, albeit small, play prominent roles in shaping the reality which we live in. It is believed that within the chaotic nature of our world, there is a complex system in its randomness. Yet, these seemingly random events have organised patterns such as weather and natural events which may be constantly predicted but they never be completely predetermined. This is the basis of chaos theory which identifies and exam…
The Visible Flâneuse in Chan Ling Yap’s Where the Sunrise is Red
Malaysia’s historical image in literature has almost always been exotically depicted. In some parts of literary works, geographical and physical settings serve merely as a literary device. The overwhelming depictions of characters’ geographical movements and relationship with their cities in the novel, Where the Sunrise is Red sparks the current resurgence to explore the visibility of the female protagonists in terms of their representations in t…
Abject Desires in Lisa See’s Peony in Love
The establishment of the Manchu led-Qing dynasty in 1636 led to the continuation of Confucianism as the dominant belief system in China. Based on these Confucian principles of patrilineality and patrilocality, women were expected to portray exemplary feminine virtues that required them to remain subservient and obedient to the men in her family. This oppressive practice placed women lower in the hierarchy as, unlike men, they were denied the mean…
Pandemic, Plague, Pestilence and the Tropics: Critical Inquiries from Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
The Tropics have long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a geographical region virtually uninhabitable to temperate peoples due to the hostility of its climate, and persisted in colonial imaginaries of the tropics as pestilential latitudes requiring slave labour. The tropical sites of colonialism gave rise to urgent studies of tropical di…
Social Stratification As A Catalyst For Xenophobia In Kenneth Maswabi's Poems
This research aims to analyse selected poems from the anthology, Collection of Poems by Kenneth Maswabi (2020), that deal with social stratification as a source of xenophobia. Postcolonial theory is selected and adopted for the purpose of analysis of the texts under study. The purpose of applying postcolonial theory is to appropriately contextualize the text while analyzing it from a postcolonial standpoint. To address the impact of xenophobia an…
Reclaiming Subjectivity through the Maternal Abject in Janie Chang’s Three Souls
Three Souls by Janie Chang focuses on a changing transformative time in China’s history—the 1930s. During this period, China was experiencing political and societal shifts that prompted gender equality movements. Song Leiyin, the female protagonist in Three Souls, embodies the experiences of women during this period. She is an ambitious and desiring woman who lives in a family and society that restricts women's roles and abilities. As a woman wit…
Home in Han Suyin’s 'Till Morning Comes' from the Perspective of New Cultural Geography
Viewed through the lens of new cultural geography, a geographical landscape is a symbolic system showing the beliefs and values of society, as in the case of the home landscape. The article employs Mike Crang’s concepts of landscape and home to examine different homes in Han Suyin’s Till Morning Comes (1982). From leaving homes, searching for homes to returning homes, Stephanie, an American woman in diaspora, is exposed to different cultures, exp…
Xenophobia as the major plight of African immigrants in South Africa: The example of Epiphanie Mukasano's selected poems
The attacks on African immigrants in South Africa have generated a lot of media attention both within and outside the country. This issue has not yet garnered enough critical attention in the field of literature, especially poetry. The purpose of this research is to analyse selected poems from Epiphanie Mukasano's collection Kilimanjaro on My Lap (2010) that discuss the hardships of African immigrants in South Africa. For the purposes of this stu…
Intercultural Spectacle in Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive (A|S|I|A)
At the turn of the 21st century, the advent of instantaneous transmission and hyperlinking within hyperspace and cyberspace facilitated the proliferation of digital archives. Meanwhile, the surge of Asian intercultural Shakespeare adaptations necessitated the establishment of corresponding digital archives to collect and conserve these Asian-related Shakespeare performances. However, most existing archives are monolingual, with English being the …
Mixed-Race Flâneuse: Identity Quest Through Flânerie in Han Suyin’s The Mountain Is Young
The French term flâneur, someone who wanders without a purpose, was coined in the early 19th century. Hazel considers flâneur as particularly relevant to travel because its definition is associated
Cultural Integration Through Sensory Walks in Han Suyin’s Till Morning Comes
Despite its rich thematic scope, Till Morning Comes (1982) by Asian American mixed-race writer, Han Suyin has received limited critical attention, particularly regarding its psychogeographical dimensions. This article addresses this gap by exploring the sensory walks of the diasporic female protagonist, whose movement through spaces is enriched by a heightened multisensory engagement. Walking is viewed as a physical act that anchors her diasporic…
Art (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)