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LHJ 2017 Us and Them Us and Them Us and LINCOLN U N I V E R S I T Y Fall 2017 | Volume 5 LHJ LHJ 5 Volume The Lincoln Humanities Journal The Lincoln Humanities Journal Abbes Maazaoui, Editor Fall 2017 Volume 5 LHJ The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2017 | Volume 5 Us and Them Abbes Maazaoui, Editor Annual publication of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. All rights reserved. ISSN 2474-7726 The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2017 Volume 5 2 The Lincoln Humanities Journal (LHJ) The Lincoln Humanities Journal, ISSN 2474-7726 (print), ISSN 2474-7726 (online), is an interdisciplinary double blind peer-reviewed journal published once a year by the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. Its main objective is to promote interdisciplinary studies by providing an intellectual platform for international scholars to exchange ideas and perspectives. Each volume is focused on a pre-selected theme in the fields of arts, humanities, the social sciences, and contemporary culture. Preference is given to topics of general interest that lend themselves to an interdisciplinary approach. Manuscripts should conform to the MLA style. Submissions may be made by e-mail to the editor at [email protected]. The preferred language is English. The journal is published both online and in print, in November-December of each year. The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2017 Volume 5 3 Editor ABBES MAAZAOUI Lincoln University Editorial Board J. KENNETH VAN DOVER Fulbright Scholar ERIK LIDDELL Eastern Kentucky University KIRSTEN C. KUNKLE Scholar & Opera Singer HÉDI JAOUAD Skidmore College EZRA S. ENGLING Eastern Kentucky University JEAN LEVASSEUR Bishop’s University, Canada DAVID AMADIO Lincoln University The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2017 Volume 5 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ABBES MAAZAOUI, Editor 7 PART ONE: A COUNTRY OF ONE’S OWN Making and Unmaking Strangers: Frances Milton Trollope and the Power of Inclusion MARILYN D. BUTTON, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania 11 Converting Alienation: The Case of Dorothy Day BERNADETTE MCNARY-ZAK, Rhodes College, Tennessee 25 The Nature of Identity: The Outer Context and Inner Self of the Jewish Minority under Nasserism ABEER ALOUSH, American University, Washington D.C. 35 PART TWO: ON THE MARGINS Strangers in the Victoria Division of the British Southern Cameroons, 1916-1961 JULIUS BONGKOROG, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon 49 Absurdity in Contemporary Nigerian Drama: Ola Rotimi’s Holding Talks as Paradigm EDWARD EGBO IMO, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria 66 The Gentle Trailblazer: Longfellow’s Faith-Fueled Advocacy for Victims of Colonial Power across Ethnic, Religious, and Gender Lines The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2017 Volume 5 5 SHAUN D. FRIDAY, Southern New Hampshire University, New Hampshire 80 Footnotes and Dictators MARK EDWIN PETERSON, James Madison University, Virginia 97 A Stranger in Your Own Language: The Marginalization of Meursault and Composition Students WILLIAM J. DONOHUE, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania 107 PART THREE: JE SUIS AUTRE /I IS NEITHER THIS NOR THAT Entre l’ailleurs perçu comme espace de l’épanouissement et les attaches au pays natal: l’expérience de la rupture dans Les désorientés d’Amin Maalouf MINA APIC, Université de Novi Sad, Serbia 119 From Modern France to the Caribbean and Back Again: Testing the Survival Chances of Cultural Transfers in Exile According to Julia by Gisèle Pineau JENNIFER BOUM MAKE, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 132 The Reconstruction of Memory and the Spatial Dispossession of “Le Jeune Frontalier” in Leila Sebbar’s Le Chinois vert d’Afrique ABEER ALOUSH, American University, Washington D.C. 150 De La Haine (1995) à La Désintégration (2011): du beur galérien au beur djihadiste EÏMMA CHEBINOU, Florida State University, Florida 161 SPECIAL SECTION: Student Essay False Perception of Strangeness TESSA GRAY, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania 177 The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2017 Volume 5 6 ABSTRACTS 184 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 196 CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR 2018 200 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 202 PUBLICATIONS OF THE LINCOLN HUMANITIES JOURNAL 204 The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2017 Volume 5 7 Introduction ABBES MAAZAOUI Editor The refugee crisis in Europe and the widespread anti- immigrant sentiment in western democracies have put the issue of otherness on the front burner. In response to what some have dubbed “twenty-first century problem,” studies on foreignness have increased considerably. This special volume contributes to the understanding of this debate, by examining various aspects of the reality and representation of foreignness in the humanities.1 The articles are grouped into three sections. In part I, “A Country of One’s Own,” three authors deal with the issue of assimilation and conversion as experienced by three women. Marilyn Button explores Frances Milton Trollope’s experience of social ostracism and prejudices in her personal and professional life as both a woman and a traveling writer. Bernadette McNary-Zak examines how Dorothy Day identifies and reframes alienation in her adopted religious worldview within a socialist framework. Abeer Aloush addresses the case of identity construction of Jewish Egyptian singer and actress Layla Murad during the reign of President Gamal Abdel Nasser. In part II, “On the Margins,” five authors analyze what the Algerian writer Y.B. calls the “intranger[s]”2, those who are excluded in their own country. Julius Bongkorog analyses historic cases of categorization in the Victoria 1 Some of the articles featured in this issue, including those by Marilyn D. Button, Abeer Aloush, William J. Donohue, and Tessa Gray were part of an international conference organized at Lincoln University, April 1, 2017, on “Making Strangers.” Those by Julius Bongkorog, Jennifer Boum Make, Eïmma Chebinou, Shaun D. Friday, Edward Egbo Imo, Bernadette Mcnary-Zak, and Mark Edwin Peterson are original contributions. 2 Cited in Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (245). The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2017 Volume 5 8 Division of the British Southern Cameroons from 1916 to 1961 and their purpose of subjecting particular regions and groups to multiple layers of strangeness. Edward Egbo Imo uses the example of absurdity in Ola Rotimi’s Holding Talks to illustrate the metaphysical anguish and psychological trauma that alienate a section of Nigerian society. Shaun Friday affirms Longfellow’s relevance and modernity in today’s society’s and reevaluates his faith- fueled advocacy for victims of colonial power across ethnic, religious, and gender boundaries. In his article “Footnotes and Dictators,” Mark Edwin Peterson shows how marginalization is literally inscribed in the structure of the book as demonstrated by the examples of Chicano authors, Junot Diaz and Salvador Plascencia. William J. Donohue compares the experience of minority students in composition classes to the marginalization of Meursault in The Stranger of Albert Camus. The third section, titled “Je suis autre/I Is Neither This Nor That,” continues with the motif of the “intrangers,” and discusses more specifically post-colonial alienation in contemporary France. The first author, Mina Apic, examines in Les désorientés d’Amin Maalouf, the predicament of feeling alienated from one’s own identity and culture, and the struggle to reconcile the ideal of cosmopolitism with the duty of loyalty to one’s own country of origin. Jennifer Boum Make traces the cross-cultural transfers prompted by the main character’s relocation from the Antilles to France in Gisèle Pineau’s Exile According to Julia. Abeer Aloush analyzes, in Leila Sebbar’s Le Chinois vert d’Afrique, the collective trauma and the spatial dispossession of the beur or French-born youth whose parents or grands-parents are immigrants from North Africa. The beur’s experience of alienation and revolt is also the subject of Eïmma Chebinou’s essay on French cinema and specifically La Haine (hate) and La Désintégration, which highlight the correlation between failure of integration, identity crisis and religious radicalization. The last section, “Student Essay,” gives voice to an undergraduate rising scholar, Tessa Gray, who discusses the ways in which the United States creates and enforces its “exclusivity” by marginalizing non-whites. The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2017 Volume 5 9 It is hoped that this volume, which coincides with the 75th anniversary of Albert Camus’ famous novel, The Stranger, contributes to more understanding of the plight of those excluded, marginalized, and categorized as “not one of us”. WORK CITED Talbayev, Edwige Tamalet. Rev. of Vitali, Ilaria, ed. Intrangers (I): post-migration et nouvelles Frontières de la littérature beur. Intrangers (II): littérature beur, de l'écriture à la traduction. The French Review 87.2 (2013): 245-246. The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2017 Volume 5 10 PART ONE A COUNTRY OF ONE’S OWN The Lincoln Humanities Journal Fall 2017 Volume 5 11 Making and Unmaking Strangers: Frances Milton Trollope and the Power of Inclusion MARILYN D. BUTTON Lincoln University, Pennsylvania Introduction Ancient cemeteries often tell us much about the lives of those interred in their graves. For example, outside of the city walls of Florence, Italy, in the Piazza Donatello, lies the Protestant Cemetery, also known as the English or the Non-Catholic Cemetery, and sometimes even “the Stranger’s Cemetery.” It is the resting place of Protestants, agnostics and atheists—all those who, for