The Immigrant Novel as Genre

Boelhower, William

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“…Among the texts included in Group 1 are: Abu-Jabr's Crescent Club (1989). The immigrant novels are generally concerned with topics related to homeland tales and diaspora experience (BOELHOWER, 1981;WALKOWITZ, 2010). Words like return home, a wish to return, yearning to return tell cross border tales as stark and dark stories of wrath, oppression, humiliation, and identity crisis as presented by an author in a very stylized approach.…”

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Classifying literary genres

Omar

2020

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Classifying literary genres has always been methodologically confined to philological methods and what is commonly known as Vector Space Clustering (VSC). The problem has been exasperated with the widening gap between computational theory and traditional analysis of literary texts. Towards finding a solution to this problem, the current study utilizes a synergetic approach that brings together two established methods. First, a computational model of genre classification is drawn upon for identifying concept-based, rather than word-bound, topics, where the representation of texts is secured via the ‘bag of concepts’ (BOC) model as well as the sense-restricted knowledge and meaningful links holding between and among concepts; relatedly, the two model strands of explicit semantic analysis (ESA) and ConceptNet have enacted text classification. Second, a contextual lexical semantic approach (CRUSE, 1986, 2000) is employed so that the contextual variability of word meanings and concepts can be tackled within the confines of the target literary genres classified. The findings of present study have shown that the current composite approach of computational and semantic models has resulted in improved performance in classifying literary genres, especially with respect to delineating the links between each cluster’s document-members and generalizing about their unifying genre. Further implications have emerged from the present study, namely, the benefits reserved for digital libraries and the process of archiving, where literary-text classification has proven problematic to both users and readers in many cases.

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2020

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“…Raja has explained these three stages as (a) one that involved a deep obsession with the masters and anaive acceptance of their superiority; (b)an effort to learn master's culture and an effort toimitate the assumed source of the master's power in the native land, (c) and native intellectuals, having direct experience the injustices of the colonial system, endeavoured to write and theorize a path separate from the one offered by the master's institutions(Ashraf 2014). Boelhower (1981) has suggested similar stages of assimilation, in which he has described three stages of colonized subject, that are (1) Expectation, (2) Contact/separation, (3) and Resolution as the potent stages to be considered for comprehensive understanding of immigrant studies. During these stages the colonized subject undergoes a situation of lust and envy and "Dreams of possession: every type of possession: of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife" (Fanon 1963).…”

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A Case of Multiple Identities in Globalized World of The Black Album

Abbas¹,

Ahmed²

2020

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In this paper, it is debated that identity is more a matter of practicality than a philosophy in the colonial and postcolonial world. There is a detailed delineation on cultural as well as cross cultural identities, given to migrants living in a metropolis. The researcher has focused on transnational English Novel The Black Album written by Hanif Kureishi in 1995. Philosophies and critical notions concerning hybridity and cultural globalization are focused and it is argued that migration is also a part of a transnational culture. The researcher through dominant discourses on culture and identity of globalized nations has explored the selected literary writing. The purpose is to find out whether English literature particularly literature writing on migrants are also dealing with same philosophies of identity or they are promoting diverse issues. The research has concluded that no doubt cultural purity is significant and essential to survive but, in a metropolis, where multiple nations are living, this cultural purity must be guarded with ambivalence when question of multiple identities arises. The research has explored different factors that are involved in globalization of different cultures and then promote cultural hybridity with an influence on identity of an individual, and community, or a culture.

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“…One of Canada's better-known literary critics, Philip Marchand, points out that the text is "an example of a Canadian immigrant novel, or the coming of age novel or the tale of feminist empowerment" (2012). By incorporating elements of magical realism in the form of Gosia's overgrown body, it also broadens the idea of an immigrant novel as defined by Boelhower (1981).…”

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From Poland to Canada: Memories of Communist Poland and Migration to Canada in Three Texts by Polish-Born Migrant Women Writers

Drewniak

2022

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Canadian ethnic literature has been dominated by testimonies of migrant experience for a long time. Writers of Eastern European extraction, such as Janice Kulyk Keefer, Eva Hoffman, Eva Stachniak, Lisa Appignanesi or Elaine Kalman Naves to mention just a few, have contributed to the vast body of Canadian migrant literature, giving voice to the quandaries of white, invisible minority migration. As it turns out, the latest texts published by Polish-born Canadian women writers also address the issues of migration and the memory of Communist Poland, which the writers left in the 1980s and early 1990s. The aim of this paper is to look at three selected texts: Giant (2012) by Aga Maksimowska, Lemons (2017) by Kasia Jaronczyk and Was It Worth It. Columbus in Jeans (2019) by Liliana Arkuszewska, all of which are debut novels, and discuss their perception and rendition of Communist Poland, which the authors left behind physically and simultaneously struggled to free from mentally. The narratives chosen for this study, despite substantial differences, bear certain similarities in their treatment of Poland as well as become important commentaries on the status of migrant discourses in North America.

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The Immigrant Novel as Genre

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Classifying literary genres

Classifying literary genres

A Case of Multiple Identities in Globalized World of The Black Album

From Poland to Canada: Memories of Communist Poland and Migration to Canada in Three Texts by Polish-Born Migrant Women Writers

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