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Scientific Essay from the year 2024 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Other, , language: English, abstract: This paper concentrates on two diasporic Iranian writers and their memories in order to show how their personal experience can be understood and read as a kind of self-orientalisation and purgary of their own lives. It is these two personal stories which unfold an intensive grip on the reader while also leaving spa...

Scientific Essay from the year 2023 in the subject Theology - Islamic theology, Leuven Catholic University, course: LEST XIV: 60 Years Vatican II: The End of the Western Church?, language: English, abstract: Vatican II and its progressive declaration of the Roman Catholic Church in dealing with other religions, "Nostra Aetate", meant a turning point for the traditional Christian ¿ non Christian relationship. This traditionally mostly negative ...

Essay from the year 2023 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: The manifold reflections of loss of home or migration are complex in the displacement histories and narratives because they contain difficult, untraceable journeys and experiences of immigrants and refugees involved. At present, this also concerns the largest religious community linked to massive migration movements worl...

Essay from the year 2023 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Marburg (Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies), language: English, abstract: The manifold reflections of loss of home or migration are complex in the displacement histories and narratives because they contain difficult, untraceable journeys and experiences of immigrants and refugees involved. At present, this also concerns the largest rel...

Essay from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Marburg (Marburger Zentrum für Kanada-Studien), course: Journeys Across B/Orders in Canadian Studies, Marburg, 2022, language: English, abstract: This topic was also held as a lecture at the international conference "Journeys across B/Orders in Canadian Studies" at Marburg University in June , 2022. Life of Muslims in Canada has drastic...

Scientific Study from the year 2021 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, , language: English, abstract: Matters of ethics and morality have always had a fixed place in crime writing since solving cases like murders is embedded between decision making processes which are bound between good and bad. To focus and reflect ethic and moral decisions and to place them within the policeforce itself is, however, uncommon in crime writing sinc...

Scientific Essay from the year 2021 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, Comenius University in Bratislava (Philosophische Fakultät), language: English, abstract: Canada for many people is considered to be an ideal country to live in. Unspoiled nature, friendly people, a booming industry, an astonishingly convincing kind of immigration politics and democratic governments are all parts of the so called 'Canadian mosaique' whi...

Scientific Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Literature - Canada, Comenius University in Bratislava (Philosophische Fakultät), language: English, abstract: This paper compares various contemporary Muslim writers from Canada and their negotiation with their identity. The choice of works tries to focus on the last decade and wants to show the multiple and flexible way these writers treat the key topic identity. All novels offer a comprehen...

Scientific Essay from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, Comenius University in Bratislava, language: English, abstract: 'South Asian literature' is a literary term closely connected to countries like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, the Maldives or Bangladesh. Afghanistan here holds an outside position because of the fact that Afghan writers at home face an extremely difficult situatio...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Jede kritische Analyse des Begriffs eines gerechten Krieges muss sich darüber klar sein, dass die theoretischen Grundlagen und seine historischen Umsetzungen immer eng an die jeweilige Zeitgeschichte sowie konkrete kirchliche, politische und juristische Gegebenheiten gebund...

Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject English - Miscellaneous, University of Marburg, language: English, abstract: While picking up foreign languages teenagers all over the world are directly (or indirectly) confronted with environmental issues. Ecological matters and problems are not only presented and discussed in non-fictional but also in fictional texts, a clear hint at their relevance. It is here where personal interests, exper...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Englisch - Literatur, Werke, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave (Anglistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Krieg, Leid und Terror haben die Literatur der Jahrhunderte beherrscht, weil Literatur immer auch Spiegel der jeweiligen Zeitepoche ist. Auffallend ist in der literarischen Aufarbeitung dieser Thematik ein durchgängiges Fehlen der kindlichen Perspektive, eine Tendenz, die sich bis ...

Scientific Essay from the year 2018 in the subject American Studies - Literature, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: The traditional literary coverage of border and frontier in American and Canadian literature has always been closely linked to war, survival, trauma, trauma time, immigration as well as exile and has re-gained interest of many contemporary writers and critics after 9/11. Since that date...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Radikalisierung muslimischer Frauen als logische Entwicklung eines fundamentalistisch gelebten Islams sowie die Möglichkeit einer Emanzipation genau aus diesem Umfeld erscheint zunächst als Anachronismus, spiegelt aber die Gesamtbreite des islamischen Radikalismus wider, der genau diese Möglichkeit bein...

Scientific Essay from the year 2018 in the subject English - Literature, Works, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: The incorporation of war into English speaking literature has a long tradition since wars as such form ideal literacy backgrounds for plot, character development or political criticism. In times of civil uproar, political insecurity, outer enemies or ongoing wars this use of war as a literary means h...

Document from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, University of Marburg, language: English, abstract: 9/11 novels, post-9/11 novels and Ground Zero Fiction which have a literary closeness of this day suddenly picked up the former colonial concepts of 'Other' and 'Otherness' or 'Center and Periphery' and set them in a context of a shifting, multicultural American population with the task to suddenl...

Scientific Essay from the year 2017 in the subject English - Literature, Works, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: Since 9/11 many Muslims struggle with their identity and are exposed to xenophobia, violence, vicious defamation, harassment or displacement. In short the notion 'Muslim' in relation to that day has become a stigma. It is against this background and the post-traumatic aftermath of September 11, 2001 ...

Document from the year 2017 in the subject English - Literature, Works, Comenius University in Bratislava, language: English, abstract: This essay is about Rawi Hage's novel "Cockroach", which at first sight is, according to the Daily Telegraph, 'A tale of murder, intrigue and sex from the exuberantly talented Hage'. However, Cockroach embodies more than this (negative) one-sighted approach. It is also a novel of migration, exile, diaspora and...

Scientific Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Literature - Canada, , course: Englische Literatur, language: English, abstract: In the past four decades the literary reflection of Muslim life in East and West has been characterized by the West with skewed perceptions of Islam and Muslim existence. The events of 9/11 and its aftermath have worsened the traditional negative and stereotyped perception and treatment of Islam. The consequence...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der 2009 erschienen Roman Guantanamo Boy avancierte mittlerweile zu einem der bekanntesten Jugendromane in Großbritannien. Er beschreibt einen Zeitraum von rund zwei Jahren, in dem sich das Leben des 15 jährigen Khalid dramatisch verändert. Khalid gehört zur zweiten Einwanderungsgeneration pakistanischer Eltern und ist (scheinbar) ...