Browsing by Author "Alakhdar, Ghada Mohamad Ali Hassan"

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    Agency in Search of a Narrative: Reconstructing Egyptian Identity via Facebook
    (Cairo University, 2019) Alakhdar, Ghada Mohamad Ali Hassan
    The production of meaning and organizing human experience to construct an identity yields a complexification when deployed on Facebook. Narrative Identity theory, with its three stages of prefiguration, configuration and refiguration, as proposed by Ricoeur provide a framework for unpacking the process of identity construction for social media users. Agency, both as promised potential by the literature on social media and its structure as well as by the imaginative experience entailed in narrativisation, lead to the ambiguities of empowerment and fragmentation. This study draws on digital anthropology and narrative identity theory in order to analyze a selection of posts from three widely visited Facebook pages with historical content. The construction of meaning through user engagement with text takes on wider significance imposed by the post- modern structure of the Facebook itself with implications on user construction of identity.
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    An Ecocritical Reading of Water Symbolism in a Selection of Two Female Native American Poets
    (Ain Shams University, 2019) Alakhdar, Ghada Mohamad Ali Hassan
    This paper offers an ecocritical and narrative reading of a selection of poems from both Harjo and Hogan. It explores native American legacy and their sense of hope and revival expressed in their poetry. The selection of poems discussed in this paper expands our understanding of narrative, with its plot, time and perspective as basic constituents and how it gives way to multi-focality, timelessness and blurring of main and marginal in the plot covering both anthropocentric and biocentric perspectives without overlooking issues of representation, human cognition and multiple levels of agency. Adopting ecocritical and narrative approaches relocates nature and spirituality, with focus on water symbols, in the centre of artistic expression not overlooking stylistic and textual properties at the representation of human consciousness. Forms of artistic expression offer to expand the oral-tradition and legacy of Native Americans yet in ―English‖ and poetic form.