Malik Naseer Alkhawaldeh

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Research Title :Bioregionalism in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North: a postcolonial study

Authors : Alkhawaldeh, M.

Abstract :This paper focuses on Salih’s Season of Migration to the North. It combines postcolonialism and bioregionalism to provide a comprehensive analysis of the novel. This helps create a postcolonial sense of place that brings to light the changes in ecosystems during and after colonisation. It investigates the characters’ sense of place and the extent to which this leads to their having a stable identity or an unstable one. Nature plays a vital role in shaping the identity of the main characters in the novel; both are born and raised in villages yet have different attachments to their surroundings. It also explores the characters’ relationship with nature, land in particular, in a postcolonial bioregional context by analysing what is considered place-based and out-of-place behaviours. The paper analyses how colonisation has changed the bioregion of Sudan in addition to the cultural and natural crises that resulted from it. It indicates the people’s postcolonial acts of resistance to these changes.

Keywords : Bioregionalism; ecocriticism; postcolonialism; place-based and out-of-place behaviours

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Research Title :Scrutinising the Moon: Randa Jarrara’s “The Lunatic’s Eclipse” Under a Postmodern Lens

Authors :Alkayid, M. M., Al-Sharaâ, M. N., Al Kayed, M. M., & Alkhawaldeh, M.

Abstract :: This paper aims to investigate the short story “The Lunatic’s Eclipse” by the Arab-American Randa Jarrar and explain the postmodern techniques represented through the different functions of the moon. The study is qualitative research that employs postmodern strategies of magic realism, metafiction, carnivalesque, and intertextuality as the study's methodology. Through these strategies, the story blurs the boundaries between reality, magic, and fiction and unites them in one entity to highlight themes of freedom, happiness, and self-reliance. Therefore, the study relies on postmodern theorists' ideas and theories on these strategies, including Jean-Francois Lyotard, Linda Hutcheon, Franz Koh, Mikhail Bakhtin, Gerard Genette, and William Gass. The moon is also employed as a structure for the story and a theme that unites all the parts of the story together. The characters are also given names that mean different phases of the moon in Arabic. Jarrar uses the moon to resist stereotyping Arab women as weak and submissive

Keywords :Diaspora; the moon; magic realism; metafiction; carnival

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Research Title :Verbalizing visual characterizations of race in the audio description of Netflix

Authors :Abu Tair, S., Haider, A. S., & Alkhawaldeh, M

Abstract :This article examines the description of race in the audio description (AD) of Netflix through the lens of political correctness to determine any bias, whether intentional or not. It analyzes the wording of English AD incidents where characters are described in several series and films available on Netflix. Passing, Kipo, and Squid Game were selected because their cast and characters were diverse or consisted mainly of minorities. The findings showed that although Netflix aims to minimize bias in the AD provided on its platform, some subtle biases are still present; some of these may even be unintentional. When it comes to labels, no offensive terms were ever used; however, some efforts to avoid offensive language resulted in the descriptions being too ambiguous. The study concludes that since language cannot be separated from its pragmatics, the choice in wording can create a problematic area for the scriptwriter.