Papers by Marwa F AlKhayat
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Print), Jul 1, 2023
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Wadī Al-Nīl Lil Dirāsāt wa Al-Buẖūṯ Al-Insāniyyaẗ wa Al-Iğtimāʿiyyaẗ wa Al-Tarbawiyyaẗ, Oct 1, 2020
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Jurnal Humaniora, 2018
The current study is a postmodern appraisal of Bob Dylan’s artistic career and vocal gestures to ... more The current study is a postmodern appraisal of Bob Dylan’s artistic career and vocal gestures to examine the way melody in popular music works in relation to speech and singing, the grand and the ordinary. It historicizes Bob Dylan’s protest music of the 1960s within the paradigm of folk music culture. Dylan’s music is full of riffs, blues sequences, and pentatonic melodies—all heavily part and parcel of blues, folk, gospel, and country music. It is the music that dwells on the pleasures of repetition, of circularity, and of the recurring familiar tune integrated within Dylanesque poetics of rhyme delivered with his idiosyncratic, deep and intense range of voices. Dylan is the official son of the legacies of social, communal, and ritual music-making that mirrors contemporary pop and rock back to folk and blues, street-sung broadsides and work songs, the melodies of medieval troubadours, and the blessed rhythms of Christianity and Judaism. The study is an attempt to illustrate how mu...
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Humaniora, Feb 24, 2018
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Journal of Translation and Language Studies
The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya... more The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya and Kunooz animated TV Series (2022). AVT is quite a unique sub-discipline of Translation Studies (TS) due to its polysemiotic nature in which it functions on verbal, acoustic and visual levels. Within this rationale, the study conducts an interrogation of the verbal auditory or acoustic channel, the non-verbal auditory channel, the verbal visual channel, e.g. written signs on the screen and the non-verbal visual channel. As such, the aim of the study is to scrutinize the constraints and challenges that the AVT translators face during the subtitling process within the paradigm of translation strategies. The present study is carried out within the boundaries of the target-oriented approach developed by Gideon Toury and the foreignization/domestication approaches developed by Lawrence Venuti to interrogate culture-bound characteristics. Foreignization as a translation strategy seems princ...
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The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya... more The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya and Kunooz animated TV Series (2022). AVT is quite a unique sub-discipline of Translation Studies (TS) due to its polysemiotic nature in which it functions on verbal, acoustic and visual levels. Within this rationale, the study conducts an interrogation of the verbal auditory channel, the non-verbal auditory channel, the verbal visual channel. As such, the aim of the study is to scrutinize the challenges of the subtitling process within the paradigm of translation strategies. The present study is carried out within the boundaries of the target-oriented methodology developed by Gideon Toury and the foreignization/domestication approaches developed by Lawrence Venuti to interrogate culture-bound characteristics. Foreignization as a translation strategy seems essentially apt for a historical and cultural text to recreate the source text in target language in such a way that the reader or the audience would feel the cultural effect of the source text. The contribution of the research is hopefully twofold. One, it is the first-ever study of Yahay and Kunooz Series in the academia; the other, this study incites additional studies in the future to foster a wide-ranging theoretical frame for AVT.
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The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya... more The present study examines Audiovisual Translation (AVT) strategies in selected episodes of Yahya and Kunooz animated TV Series (2022). AVT is quite a unique sub-discipline of Translation Studies (TS) due to its polysemiotic nature in which it functions on verbal, acoustic and visual levels. Within this rationale, the study conducts an interrogation of the verbal auditory channel, the non-verbal auditory channel, the verbal visual channel. As such, the aim of the study is to scrutinize the challenges of the subtitling process within the paradigm of translation strategies. The present study is carried out within the boundaries of the target-oriented methodology developed by Gideon Toury and the foreignization/domestication approaches developed by Lawrence Venuti to interrogate culture-bound characteristics. Foreignization as a translation strategy seems essentially apt for a historical and cultural text to recreate the source text in target language in such a way that the reader or the audience would feel the cultural effect of the source text. The contribution of the research is hopefully twofold. One, it is the first-ever study of Yahay and Kunooz Series in the academia; the other, this study incites additional studies in the future to foster a wide-ranging theoretical frame for AVT.
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Women's Studies, Nov 29, 2022
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Routledge, 2022
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Arab Studies Quarterly
The present article examines a narrative of darkness to illuminate the rhetoric of haunting and m... more The present article examines a narrative of darkness to illuminate the rhetoric of haunting and monstrosity. Gothicity evokes a sense of indeterminateness and it dramatizes disruptive incorporeal occurrences as interrogated in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad, a war Frankenfiction. It stages horror to chronicle national disintegration through the rise of a sewn-together zombie to mark the appalling arrival of the Iraqi dissenter. The new twenty-first-century monster is a zombie to defy marginality and to associate monstrosity with deviance and abnormality. Within this rationale, the present study investigates the aesthetics of Postcolonial Gothic politics to examine the use of the supernatural, the grotesque body, the monstrous abject, and the haunted ruins to depict a dismembered nation through the deployment of eerie motifs and surreal techniques. My premise fleshes out the Frankenstein hubris to dismantle the US political culture in Iraq. The aim is to reframe the modern G...
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Arab Studies Quarterly, 2021
The present study examines the aesthetic features of Sabry Musa's Lord of the Spinach Field (... more The present study examines the aesthetic features of Sabry Musa's Lord of the Spinach Field (1987) through Karl-Heinz Bohrer's “Utopia of the Subject” to foreground Homo's quest for a wished-for yet unattainable reality. Post-Colonial Utopianism depicts man's inner turmoil to force an act of willful rethinking to enhance the “anticipatory consciousness” of a better life, a point interrogated within Ernst Bloch's Principle of Hope to propose the concept of the “Not-Yet-Become”: the not realized futuristic reality. Therefore, the interest is in utopia/dystopia historicities as analytical markers of historical inquiry to analyze specific space/time coordinates; post-colonial pitfalls of a technoscience dystopia. As such, the remarkable characteristic of Post-Colonial Utopianism is critique, and “Subjective Utopia” strives to achieve a breach in the teleological ideology of historical structures; thereby, transformation is the central aesthetic strategy of post-colon...
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Textual Turnings, 2019
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Textual Turnings: An International Peer-Reviewed Journal in English Studies, 2021
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My study grows out of a desire to make sense of the attraction to Celtic myths as exemplified in ... more My study grows out of a desire to make sense of the attraction to Celtic myths as exemplified in The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014) since an academic breadth for the visual Celtic orientalism is still not fully achieved. To expand the scope of the Irish studies, the present paper is an attempt to construct the Irish criticism in the twenty-first century within the motion picture paradigm as manifested in the productions of the indigenous Irish studio, Cartoon Saloon, established in 1999 in Southeast Ireland. I argue for the equal significance of animation which has not been yet theorized in a comprehensive critical media discourse to emphasize Ireland's exceptional perception of itself as extraordinary. The premise of the study is to establish The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014) as Irish postcolonial animation to examine the tenor of the Celtic postcoloniality that has been shaped by energies of the past. The two animated films interrogate fa...
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Studies in Literature and Language, 2017
The aim of this study is to explore fantasy chronotope as exemplified in the complex spatio-tempo... more The aim of this study is to explore fantasy chronotope as exemplified in the complex spatio-temporal configuration in children’s fantasy films. The notion of fantasy chronotope is revisited to conceptualize the way space and time can interrelate through the in-depth analysis of two portal-quest fantasy films: Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Hayao Miyazaki’s (2001) Spirited Away (2001). The theoretical starting point is to examine the representation of the Alternative World and to articulate the aesthetics of animated children’s films as well. The researcher adopts a comparative/theoretical method to question spatiality in visual media and to analyze spatial practices undertaken by fictional/female narratives within multiple locations. Moreover, Japanese anime has not been studied adequately compared to its North American counterparts such as Disney especially in terms of ethnic/national or gender politics encoded in anime images. The study seeks to establish the two ani...
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The current study aims at theorizing the question of identity within the framework of postcolonia... more The current study aims at theorizing the question of identity within the framework of postcolonial Asian American Diaspora in Helen Reservist’s and Gabi Swiatkowska's picture book My Name is Yoon (2003) to highlight a number of questions: 1) How can Asian American visuals be addressed in non-white children's literature? 2) What are the nature of belonging and citizenship? 3) What makes Yoon, the immigrant girl, who resisted in writing her name in English in the beginning eventually writes it in English at the end? The questions are a vehicle to investigate the cultural and ethnic politics of Asian American literature and to explore new forms of self-identification in American literary discourse. They also yield rich insights into how to practice multiculturalism. The selected visual narrative has only been – to the best of my knowledge- studied as a vivid example of multicultural literature in primary schools designed for children whose age ranged from 5-9 as an activity for...
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Bulletin of Advanced English Studies, 2019
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Bulletin of Advanced English Studies, 2018
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The aim of the present study is to examine the contribution of visuals to digital story-telling, a process proposed by Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen as 'Reading Images' (1996). They challenge modern viewers to consider the varied forms of meaning-making that extend beyond language to enhance the semiotic process and to decode the different configurations of representation, patterns of communication, how experience can be visually decoded, and all that contribute to the meaning of polyphonic images. Shaun Tan's The Arrival (2006) is a wordless graphic novel in sepia tones to illustrate the immigrant's epic journey to a wondrous land. The Arrival is highly symbolic full of overwhelming worlds, enigmatic creatures and origami birds. It screens intra- and intertextual references of historical migration to the New World as well as cinematic flourishes such as zooming in and out in order to capture the nameless central character’s loneliness and vulnerability in a strange and surrealist world. Tan's digital story-telling calls upon the viewer to bear knowledge of structural conventions such as panels, the use of gutter [the spaces between panels], colors, symbols and other textual devices serve to heighten the strangeness of the immigrant's experience with the intention to set him as Everyman. In the absence of the text, paratextual features become significant to decipher meanings visually with grey and sepia shadows that evoke the feelings of old photographs that create a story through the use of panels of small-size, medium-size, large-size images and multiple frames. The digital story-telling is also enhanced by the use of montage as manifested, for instance, in the opening pages that depict a heart-breaking scene of the husband's departure that generates the effect of silent black and white movie. Finally, Tan's visuals are set in the zone between dreams and reality to portray the pain of departure, the confusion of arrival and the defeated sense of dislocation and finally the glimmerings of hope in a surrealist mood to communicate meaning within modes of sound, color, tone and texture relying upon cinematic framing and shifting from photographic pencil-toned greys to sepia-toned browns to indicate the narrator's shifts and to explore Tan's foreshadowing and flashbacks as literary techniques.
Keywords: Digital Story-Telling, Graphic Novel, Reading Images, Visual Grammar – Multicultural Literature