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Special Issue on Literature No. 4 AWEJ Arab World English Journal INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ISSN: 2229-9327 جمةل اللغة الانلكزيية يف العامل العريب Special Issue on Literature No. 4 AWEJ October - 2016 www.awej.org Arab World English Journal AWEJ INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ISSN: 2229-9327 مجلة اللغة اﻻنكليزية في العالم العربي Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on Literature No 4. October, 2016 Team of this issue Guest Editor Dr. John Wallen Department of English Language and Literature University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank all those who contributed to this volume as reviewers of papers. Without their help and dedication, this volume would have not come to the surface. Among those who contributed were the following: Professor Dr. Taher Badinjki Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Al-Zaytoonah University, Amman, Jordan Dr. Hadeer Abo El Nagah Department of English & Translation, College of Humanities Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Dr. Gregory Stephens Department of English, University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez Dr. Dallel SARNOU Department of English studies, Faculty of foreign languages University of Abdelhamid Ibn Badis, Mostaganem, Algeria Prof. Dr. Misbah M.D. Alsulaimaan College of Education and Languages, Lebanese French University, Erbil , Iraq Arab World English Journal www.awej.org ISSN: 2229-9327 Arab World English Journal AWEJ INTERNATIONAL PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ISSN: 2229-9327 جمةل اللغة الانلكزيية يف العامل العريب Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on Literature No 4. October, 2016 Pp. 1- 2 Contents Article Titles & authors Pages Team of this issue 1 Contents 1-2 Editorial 3 John Wallen British Anti-Suffrage and the Emancipation of Women in Iraq: The Case of 4- 19 Gertrude Bell May Witwit A Postmodernist Reading of Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons, Jean 20-32 Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions Nazmi Tawfiq Al-Shalabi Connecting with the Other: Empathy in Tom’s Midnight Garden 33-42 Maher Ben Moussa Re-inscribing Shahrazad: The Quest of Arab-American Women in Mohja Kahf’s 43- 57 Poetry Safaa A. Alahmad Experiences of African-Americans as Reflected in Richard Wright’s Native Son 58- 72 1940 Fatchul Mu’in Magical Realism and the Problem of Self-Identity as Seen in three Postcolonial 73 -82 Novels Fayezah M. Aljohani Under the Shadow of Virgin Mary: Forging a New Maternal Path in Margaret 83- 96 Deland’s The Iron Woman Nancy H. Al-Doghmi Shakespeare’s Othello and the Challenges of Multiculturalism 97-107 Mohssine Nachit Dialectics of Self-fashioning in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones 108-117 Hanna Al-Khasawneh & Raja Al-Khalili Psycho-politics in Morrison's Beloved and Home: A Comparative Study Hanan K. Jezawi & Abdel-Rahman H. Abu-Melhim 118-127 The Law of the Father in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927) and Mrs. 128-137 Dalloway (1925) Areen Khalifeh Theorizing Child Trafficking in Young Adult Literature: A Review of the 138- 151 Literature Faisal Lafee Etan Alobeytha , Sharifah Fazliyaton binti Shaik Ismail & Aspalila bt. Shapii The Mirage Epic: Sadalla Wannous’s Allegory of Colonial Globalization 152-161 Arab World English Journal www.awej.org 1 ISSN: 2229-9327 Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on Literature No 4. October, 2016 Contents Samar Zahrawi Paul Bowles’s Translations from the “Moghrebi” in the Context of the American 162 172 Counter-culture Hafida MOURAD An Exercise on Literary Translation: The Arabic Translation of The Namesake 173-185 Sura M. Khrais "I Think There Must Be Something Wrong with Us”: Folie à Deux in Truman 186-198 Capote's In Cold Blood Afra S. Alshiban The New Diaspora and the Transformation of America in Bharati 199-211 Mukherjee’s Jasmine(1989) Abeer Abdulaziz. AL-Sarrani Fantasy versus Reality in Literature 212-223 Syed Mikhail Mohamed Roslan , Radzuwan Ab Rashid , Kamariah Yunus & Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi A Modern Tragic Hero in Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape 224-231 Bassmah AlTaher Revelations of Ethnicity and Additional Significant Ingredients in Yann 232-237 Martel’s Life of Pi Ashok K. Saini Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction Anjali Pandey 238-240 Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth Century British Historical Novel 241-246 Tom Bragg Arab World English Journal www.awej.org 2 ISSN: 2229-9327 Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on Literature No. 4 October, 2016 Pp. 3-3 Editorial It has been a privilege for me to act as guest editor for this special literature edition of AWEJ and I would like to begin by expressing my full thanks to Dr. Khairi for his kindness in thinking of me in this context. In particular I am happy to act as guest editor for this special edition because I have been intellectually stimulated by the broad range of scholarly articles from around the Arabic and Asian world herein contained. The perspectives are many, from poststructuralism and new historicism to post-colonialism and even criminal psychology. The central theme which connects them all together, however, is the overarching need to find new voices and perspectives out of the conflicting realities that have so profoundly affected post second world war and post- colonial societies since around 1945. There is less certainty now than ever before about the “correct” critical models to follow, but the new plethora of insights and theories used to explicate literature in the twenty-first century is deeply liberating in many ways. We have finally gotten away from Leavis’s “Great Tradition” and Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” which presented the social and class preferences for a few “Great” writers as an eternal standard for everyone in the academy to worship and adore forever (and forever) more. From the present mix of multifarious critical approaches, I expect, eventually, to see a more egalitarian consensus emerge concerning the future uses and interpretation of literature both in society and in the private study. Undoubtedly, the collection of scholarly articles contained in this special literature edition of AWEJ will contribute to an essential discovery and rediscovery of fresh definitions concerning what literature is and can be for a new generation of writers and readers in the twenty-first century. Dr. John Wallen University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 10/1/2016 3 Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on Literature No 4. October, 2016 Pp. 4- 19 British Anti-Suffrage and the Emancipation of Women in Iraq: The Case of Gertrude Bell May Witwit Hon. Research Fellow Research Institute for Media Art and Performance University of Bedfordshire Luton Campus, Park Square Luton, LU1 3JU, United Kingdom Abstract For Gertrude Bell being ‘as good as any man’ was an objective she tried to prove all her life, not only by climbing the Alps and roaming the Arabian Desert but in almost all aspects of life. This challenge remained with her till the end and may well have been one of the reasons behind her success. Bell was against female suffrage and had eagerly worked to prevent granting the vote to British women, yet she became the first British female officer and many times, exceeded the performance of her male colleagues. Bell enjoyed her role as the Oriental Secretary to Sir Percy Cox to the point of forgetting she was a woman. She insisted she was sexless and dismissed most women as uninteresting. However, her sex facilitated her mission among the Arabs who wondered what British men would be like if this was one of their women. After the vote was partially granted to British women in 1918, Bell embarked on emancipating Iraqi women. This paper highlights the contrast between Bell’s public and private personas, her anti-suffrage activities and her role in emancipating urban women in Iraq. Keywords: Gertrude Bell, British Anti Suffrage, Iraqi Women, British Colonial policy 4 Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on Literature No. 4 October, 2016 British Anti-Suffrage and the Emancipation of Women in Iraq: The Case of Gertrude Bell ‘I’m as good as any man.... and from what I see of the capacities of the ordinary mountaineer, I think I am.’ (Bell, to Florence, 12 August, 1900, Online Archive) Introduction For Gertrude Bell being ‘as good as any man’ was an objective she pursued not only by climbing the Alps but also by employing her ‘bewildering versatility of gifts’ and exceptional aptitude to various fields of her life and career (Saturday Review, 1927). Bell rose to a high position and exercised freedoms beyond the reach of other women. Despite her success she remained in a subordinate post serving under the Chief Political Officer in Iraq (Ridley, 1943, p. 129). While in England, Bell backed the conservative view against women’s Suffrage and her name remained on the Anti-Suffrage Review till it ceased publication in 1918. In private Bell exercised all the trends of the New Woman and resented the restrictions imposed on her sex, yet advocated the Victorian ideology of Separate Spheres.1 When the vote was partially granted to British women in 1918, Bell embarked on westernising and ‘emancipating’ urban Iraqi women. This paper argues that the contradiction between Bell’s public face and her private persona indicate that she was neither anti-suffrage nor an emancipator of women but an unhappy woman who, in the service of the British Empire, had found escape from her personal circumstances and the stifling conventions governing the lives of Victorian-Edwardian women. Methodology Apart from the several biographies recording Bell’s life and career, Bell wrote over one thousand and six hundred letters home and left many diary entries. This paper throws a fresh look on Gertrude Bell’s life by setting the biographical information, her letters and diary entries against factual events.
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