“There Is No Such City”: The Myth of Odessa in Post-Soviet Immigrant Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Adrian Wanner
Keyword(s):  
Immigrant Literature

scholarly journals Thirty-two years of Acta Neophilologica - with gratitude to its founder and editor Professor Janez Stanonik

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Mirko Jurak
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
Immigrant Literature ◽  
Literature And Linguistics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Western European ◽  
And Linguistics

In spring this year Professor Janez Stanonik decided to retire as the Editor of the scholarly journal Acta Neophilologica, which he founded in 1968 and edited for thirty-two years. I endeavoured to help him with the material side of the journal from the very beginning until1995; since then this task has been performed by the present Associate Editor.At the time when Janez Stanonik began publishing this journal, his main aim was to make our research work in Western European and American literature better known to scholars all over the world. However, in a few years' time the journal also became open to scholars from other countries and other fields, particularly in areas connected with Slovene literature and culture, Slovene immigrant literature, and linguistics. I believe that this approach gave the journal a new openness and that it enriched its quality, therefore I intend to follow this policy in the future too.

scholarly journals The Influence of Indian Literary-Philosophical and Religious Works on the Eastern Literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Besire Azizaliyeva
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
Immigrant Literature ◽  
Bhagavad Gita ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The People ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Bhagavad Gītā

The religious and philosophical elements expressed in ancient Indian literature have had great influences on world literature. One notable example is the ancient Indian piece, "Panchatantra". This magnificent written work ofworld literature has become one of the most famous and influential works in the development of the European and Asian story genre. The Indian masterpiece has also influenced the Arabic-American immigration writer, Kahlil Gibran. Thus, the impress of Indian scripturecan be seen in many of Gibran’s works such as "The Prophet". The philosophical and religious teachings of the "Bhagavad Gita" have had an impactful role in M. Naimy’s development as an Arabic immigration writer. Mikhail Naimy, a poet, writer and a literary critic, was one of the prominent representatives of the early 21st century Arab-American immigrant literature. When conveying the idea of wholeness and unity between an individual soul and God in his work, “The Book of Mirdad”, the author used different religious and philosophical sources including the ancient Indian scripture Bhagavat-Gita. The concepts such as an eternal soul, “I”, a God’s messenger are very similar in “The Book of Mirdad” and the Indian religious-philosophical teachings. M.Naimy has accented the importance of issues that reflect many of the ancient Indian beliefs expressed in the "Bhagavad Gita" including the material sides of world and divinity, vision, soul, and spirit. The ancient Indian beliefs of "The People are Raised to the God’s level” are distinctively reflected by M. Naimy in his novel "The Book of Mirdad".

“The Only Nerdy Pakistani-American-Slash-Inhuman in the Entire Universe”

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-88
Author(s):  
Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins ◽  
Eric Berlatsky
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
The Political ◽  
Immigrant Literature ◽  
Jersey City ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire Universe ◽  
Pakistani American

As a Muslim Pakistani-American whose parents are immigrants, Kamala Khan occupies a neither/nor position familiar in both American “mulatto” literature and in postcolonial immigrant literature, wherein the mixed-race character is frequently marginalized, alienated, and Other. She is one of many examples in contemporary superhero comics both of an increased attention to the representation of people of color, and of a potentially ahistorical/apolitical postracialism. Ms. Marvel’s metaphorical mixed-racedness serves to place her in the vicinity of the postracial or in the lineage of the “multicultural” which preceded it, a vision of the world (or at least the nation) wherein race no longer has political significance, but is instead merely a signifier of multiculturalism. The political facts of being a Muslim and/or South Asian in America, and particularly in Jersey City, are either underplayed or ignored throughout Khan’s first Ms. Marvel series.

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