
Najah A. F. AlzoubiHashemite University | HU · Department of English Language and Literature
Najah A. F. Alzoubi
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The female protagonists in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and Fadia Faqir’s My Name Is Salma (2007) face similar themes and explore the effects of adultery on women. Despite their different temporal, geographical, and cultural contexts, the novels fight oppression and marginalization. The authors carefully and delicately place the...
This study examines the archetypal stages of human responses to fear and anxiety during pandemics and epidemics in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death,” Amir Tag Elsir’s Ebola 76, and COVID-19. Pandemics and epidemics elicit a range of psychosocial response mechanisms in individuals due to innate and unmanageable feelings of fear and unc...
This article examines the absurdity of wars and grounds their intersecting contours of enormous death (physical and psychological), destruction, and trauma notwithstanding their location, grounds, pretext, or repercussions. It underlines the scathing critiques of their constituencies in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) and Ahmed Saadawi’s...
This paper examines the function of the mosque in Leila Aboulela’s fiction, focusing mainly on Minaret. To realize this goal, the study elucidates the forms of materialism that burden the world of Minaret, demonstrating how this world is pulled between two conflicting material ideologies that paralyze Najwa, the protagonist. The eventual malfunctio...
The German writer Patrick Süskind symbolically projects the power of scents in his historical fantasy novel, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. The protagonist, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, has a supernatural ability to identify the odors of almost everything around him, yet he remains an undifferentiated self in psychiatric terms, seeking love, influe...
This article argues the importance of the short stories of Angela Carter to the field of children’s literature and its current adaptations. It looks at two of her stories. The result is fiction building on some patterns of children’s literature yet with a feminist tinge that questions the foundations of patriarchy. Her stories do not simply reverse...
This paper focuses on a phonological process in Jordanian Arabic, t-liaison. Two previous accounts have been offered to find out its domain of application. Abdulghani (2010) proposed that this process applies in a non-final position within a maximal syntactic projection in Modern Standard Arabic, whereas Yasin (2012) suggested that it applies in a...
This article explores the nuclear family dynamics in Williams’s play Period of Adjustment (1960) through Bowen Family Systems Theory: nuclear family emotional system and family projection process. Period of Adjustment is considered one of Williams’s most Southern plays where marriage and family values are comprehensively accentuated. However, on an...
This paper explores the concept of multigenerational emotional process in Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This concept is derived from the psychiatrist Murray Bowen’s theory that is called Bowen family systems theory and it includes eight interlocking concepts: differentiation of self, triangles, nuclear family emotional system, family...