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Ego Quest from Impoverishment to Reconciliation in Velina Houston’s Japanese American Play Kokoro (True Heart): A Freudian Reading Lamia Fahim, Areeg Ibrahim, Samia Abou Alam International Journal of Arabic English Studies, 2024 Japanese Americans’ struggle to achieve integration into the American mainstream culture has its powerful impact on their psychological well-being. Socially reserved and family oriented, the Japanese are challenged to cope with the mainstream American individualism and independence. Signs of melancholia, based on Sigmund Freud’s theories, are investigated in Kokoro (True Heart) (2004) written by the Japanese American playwright Velina Hasu Houston. The Japanese American protagonist, Yasako Yamashita, battles with cultural nonconformity and social remoteness which have provoked an aggressive superego incorporated in her mother’s ghost to govern and manipulate her world. The study aims to interrogate how the domineering superego succeeds in exhausting Yasako’s stranded ego driving her to commit parent-child suicide “oyako-shinju.” Although the suicide attempt has highlighted the problematic cultural gaps within the American society, nevertheless it has pinpointed the importance of resolving Japanese minority cultural differences. Velina Houston’s Kokoro (True Heart) does not only offer an astounding psychological insight into Japanese Americans’ battles with a melancholic ego fragmentation and deprivation indicated in symptoms of ambivalence, anxiety, compulsive repetition, sense of guilt and sense of inferiority, but it, also, advances solutions for ego reconciliation and self-conformity.
Literature of the converts in early modern Spain: Nationalism and religious dissimulation of minorities Areeg Ibrahim Comparative Literature Studies, 2008 From medieval to early modern times, Spain witnessed a diversity of cultural, religious, and ethnic interactions. Pre-modern Spain is often viewed as a crucible for the three religious communities of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, either living in convivencia [coexistence], or fighting for reconquista [reconquest]. Certain historical patterns, such as the shuubiyya [anti-Arab movement] with its ethnic underpinnings, recurred and reemerged in the more vicious ethnic prejudice of the Inquisition in early modern Spain. The Inquisition carried with it not only the residues of religious purification, but also the seeds of a growing sense of nationalism. Religious conversion became very controversial and resulted in new social and literary forms of self expression. The concept of taqiyya, or hiding ones religion under exi gency (a concept and practice usually associated with Shu Islam), prevailed among Muslim and Jewish convert-communities living under Christian rule from the fourteenth until the seventeenth century. Their literature?of the Moriscos and Marranos?is imbued with a spirit of equivocation and doubleness, and reflects the mood of that certain historical moment. It is a literature that represents their passive resistance against coercion and oppression in an attempt to galvanize their own sense of identity and entho national heritage. Ibn Khaldun (1332 CE/732 AH-1406 CE/808 AH), the famous Arab/ Muslim historian and sociologist, theorized that history acts in cycles vis-a-vis the rise and fall of political states. In this article I apply his assump tion to the ways in which history seems to promote or witness certain recurring patterns such as the manifestation of ethnic prejudice in early modern Spain. This a/historical (neo-historical, or rather cultural) research makes use of
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Ego Quest from Impoverishment to Reconciliation in Velina Houston’s Japanese American Play Kokoro (True Heart): A Freudian Reading. L Fahim, A Ibrahim, SA Alam International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (IJAES) 24 (2) , 2024 2024.0 Citations: 1
The Potential Impact of Drama Text Translation on Audiovisual Translation A Khuddro, A Ibrahim British Journal of Translation, Linguistics and Literature 3 (4), 36-53 , 2023 2023.0
Innovation in Gertrude Stein’s Anti-Plays: Genre Analysis of What Happened, Capital Capitals and Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights A Ibrahim Helwan Journal of English Studies , 2023 2023.0
Brave Expatriate New Worlds: Migration and Acculturation in Betty Shamieh’s Roar and David Henry Hwang’s FOB A Ibrahim مجلة کلية الأداب-جامعة حلوان 57 (2), 1-11 , 2023 2023.0
Transformation of Bicultural Korean American Identity from Role Confusion to Fidelity in Julia Cho’s Durango L Fahim, A Ibrahim, SAM Abou Alam Helwan Journal of English Studies 2 (01), 64-77 , 2023 2023.0
Sonali Pahwa, Theaters of Citizenship: Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt A Ibrahim Modern Drama 64 (2), 250-252 , 2021 2021.0
Lessons in Revolting: A postdramatic theatre in Egypt A Ibrahim The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics 24, 106-108 , 2019 2019.0 Citations: 2
Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre: Translation, Performance, Politics R El Zein TDR (1988-) 62 (4), 177-180 , 2018 2018.0 Citations: 1
Politics of Choice and Cultural Representation in Translating Egyptian Drama between Two Revolutions (1952–2011) A Ibrahim Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre, 53-96 , 2016 2016.0 Citations: 2
Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre S Aaltonen, A Ibrahim Routledge , 2016 2016.0 Citations: 6
Cultural Exchanges and Creative Activists in the American and Egyptian Revolutions: Warren’s Group and Soliman’s Lessons in Revolting’ A Ibrāhīm Proceedings: The Eleventh International Symposium of Comparative Literature … , 2012 2012.0 Citations: 1
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the emergence of Consciousness and the construction of subjectivity as ideology in a spanish and a Tunisian film AA Ebrahim Philology 51 (1) , 2009 2009.0
Short Arabic Plays: An Anthology A Ibrahim Ecumenica 1 (2), 111-113 , 2008 2008.0
Literature of the converts in early modern Spain: nationalism and religious dissimulation of minorities A Ibrahim Comparative literature studies 45 (2), 210-227 , 2008 2008.0 Citations: 18
Masks of ontology: A comparative study of representative contemporary British and Egyptian drama AAH Ibrahim University of Connecticut , 2003 2003.0 Citations: 1
Times of Unrest [Zaman Qaraqoush] A Ibrahim Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization , 1999 1999.0 Citations: 2
Angry Half-rebels: Osborne's Jimmy Porter, Mikha'il Ruman's Hamdy, and the Rhetoric of Frustration AAH Ibrahim American University in Cairo , 1996 1996.0
Angry half-rebels AAH Ibrahim 1995.0
Areeg Ibrahim, eds (2016) S Aaltonen Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre: Translation, Performance, Politics , 0 Citations: 2
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Literature of the converts in early modern Spain: nationalism and religious dissimulation of minorities A Ibrahim Comparative literature studies 45 (2), 210-227 , 2008 2008.0 Citations: 18
Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre S Aaltonen, A Ibrahim Routledge , 2016 2016.0 Citations: 6
Lessons in Revolting: A postdramatic theatre in Egypt A Ibrahim The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics 24, 106-108 , 2019 2019.0 Citations: 2
Politics of Choice and Cultural Representation in Translating Egyptian Drama between Two Revolutions (1952–2011) A Ibrahim Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre, 53-96 , 2016 2016.0 Citations: 2
Times of Unrest [Zaman Qaraqoush] A Ibrahim Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization , 1999 1999.0 Citations: 2
Areeg Ibrahim, eds (2016) S Aaltonen Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre: Translation, Performance, Politics , 0 Citations: 2
Ego Quest from Impoverishment to Reconciliation in Velina Houston’s Japanese American Play Kokoro (True Heart): A Freudian Reading. L Fahim, A Ibrahim, SA Alam International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (IJAES) 24 (2) , 2024 2024.0 Citations: 1
Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre: Translation, Performance, Politics R El Zein TDR (1988-) 62 (4), 177-180 , 2018 2018.0 Citations: 1
Cultural Exchanges and Creative Activists in the American and Egyptian Revolutions: Warren’s Group and Soliman’s Lessons in Revolting’ A Ibrāhīm Proceedings: The Eleventh International Symposium of Comparative Literature … , 2012 2012.0 Citations: 1
Masks of ontology: A comparative study of representative contemporary British and Egyptian drama AAH Ibrahim University of Connecticut , 2003 2003.0 Citations: 1
The Potential Impact of Drama Text Translation on Audiovisual Translation A Khuddro, A Ibrahim British Journal of Translation, Linguistics and Literature 3 (4), 36-53 , 2023 2023.0
Innovation in Gertrude Stein’s Anti-Plays: Genre Analysis of What Happened, Capital Capitals and Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights A Ibrahim Helwan Journal of English Studies , 2023 2023.0
Brave Expatriate New Worlds: Migration and Acculturation in Betty Shamieh’s Roar and David Henry Hwang’s FOB A Ibrahim مجلة کلية الأداب-جامعة حلوان 57 (2), 1-11 , 2023 2023.0
Transformation of Bicultural Korean American Identity from Role Confusion to Fidelity in Julia Cho’s Durango L Fahim, A Ibrahim, SAM Abou Alam Helwan Journal of English Studies 2 (01), 64-77 , 2023 2023.0
Sonali Pahwa, Theaters of Citizenship: Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt A Ibrahim Modern Drama 64 (2), 250-252 , 2021 2021.0
ﻣﺴﺮﺡ ﺍﻷﻗﻠﻴﺎﺕ ﻭﻣﺴﺮﺡ ﺍﻟﻤﻘﻬﻮﺭﻳﻦ: ﻭﺍﺗﺴﻮﻧﭭﻴﻞ ﻟﻠﻜﺎﺗﺒﺔ ﺍﻟﺘﺸﻴﻜﺎﻧﻴﺔ ﺷﻴﺮﻱ ﻣﻮﺭﺍﺟﺎ/Minority Theater and Literature of the Oppressed: Cherríe Moraga's" Watsonville" ﺃﺭﻳﺞ ﺇﺑﺮﺍﻫﻴﻢ Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, ١١١-١٢٧ , 2011 2011.0
the emergence of Consciousness and the construction of subjectivity as ideology in a spanish and a Tunisian film AA Ebrahim Philology 51 (1) , 2009 2009.0
Short Arabic Plays: An Anthology A Ibrahim Ecumenica 1 (2), 111-113 , 2008 2008.0
Angry Half-rebels: Osborne's Jimmy Porter, Mikha'il Ruman's Hamdy, and the Rhetoric of Frustration AAH Ibrahim American University in Cairo , 1996 1996.0
