International Journal of Literature, Linguistics, and Humanities
International Journal of Literature, Linguistics, and Humanities (IJLLH) is a double-blind peer-review journal focusing on various aspects of literature, linguistics, and humanities, aiming to provide a platform for scholars, researchers, and practitioners to share their research and insights. The journal publishes research papers, review papers, and case studies in literature linguistics and humanities. The journal covers broad areas on the subject fields that foster to mould critical thinking, intellectual debate, and a deeper understanding that enhances and advances our grasp of literature, linguistics, and the humanities. It seeks to shape creative concepts, promote interdisciplinary study, and offer a forum for fresh viewpoints that push the limits of accepted wisdom and investigate uncharted territory in various domains.
Socialization of English Pronoun Teaching in Enhancing their Comprehension of English for the Students of STIE Sultan Agung
This community service article aims to describe the socialization of English pronoun teaching conducted for 12 students at STIE Sultan Agung. The activity was carried out in three main stages: a material presentation session, a question and answer session, and a group discussion session, and a group discussion session. A qualitative descriptive method was applied, with data gathered through observation and field documentation. Before the activity began, most participants had difficulty distinguishing between the different types of pronouns, particularly personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, and reflexive pronouns. After the socialization participants showed a clear improvement in their ability to use pronouns correctly in sentences. The discussion session helped students clarify common misconceptions about subject pronouns, object pronouns, and possessive pronouns. This activity concludes that structured grammar socialization, especially on the topic of pronouns, greatly benefits non-English major university students in building their English competence. Follow-up sessions are recommended to reinforce and sustain the learning outcomes. Participants also showed positive responses toward the activity and actively participated in the learning process. Through various examples and exercises, students gained a better understanding of pronoun usage in both written and spoken English. The activity also increased their confidence in applying pronouns appropriately in different communication contexts.
An Analysis of Text Type and Meaning Equivalence in the Translation of One Direction’s Song Lyric: The Story of My Life
The study title “An Analysis of Text Type and Meaning Equivalence in the Translation of One Direction’s Song Lyric : The Story Of My Life” eximen the intricate process of transvering emotional of semantic depth across linguistic boundaries. In the contemporary globalize world, song represent a vital form of artistic communication where translation serves as a bridge for listeners to access intended messages and emotional expressions. However, translating lyrics as a complex undertaking that demands not only linguistic accuracy but also cultural and emotional adaptation to prevent the translated version from appearing unnatural or “flat”. The primary objective this research is to categorize the text type of the song lyrics and to evaluate the degree of meaning equivalence between the original English lyrics and the Indonesian translation. The theoretical framework is encored in Reiss’s text type theory (1977) and Nida &Taber’s Equivalence theory (1969).
Implementation of TOEFL Listening Strategies and Practice Test for Grade XI IPA 3 Students of SMA Swasta HKBP 1 Pematangsiantar
Many senior high school students have limited exposure to TOEFL, particularly the Listening Comprehension section, which often presents challenges due to unfamiliar vocabulary, rapid speech delivery, and various question types. Therefore, this community service program aimed to introduce TOEFL Listening strategies and provide students with practical experience through guided listening activities and a practice test. The program was conducted at SMA Swasta HKBP 1 Pematangsiantar and involved 31 students from Grade XI IPA 3. The activities were implemented through three phases: preparation, implementation, and evaluation. During the implementation phase, students participated in a TOEFL Listening socialization session covering the definition of TOEFL, its benefits, types of TOEFL, test sections, listening question types, common listening difficulties, and listening strategies. The students also took part in guided listening practice activities before completing a TOEFL Listening practice test consisting of ten multiple-choice questions based on three listening strategies: Focus on the Second Line, Choose Answers with Synonyms, and Avoid Similar Sounds. The results showed that students demonstrated varying levels of listening comprehension ability. The highest score was 8, the lowest score was 0, and the mean score was 3.87. Based on the score distribution, 35.48% of students were categorized as poor, 32.26% as fair, 29.03% as good, and 3.23% as excellent. The program provided students with a better understanding of TOEFL Listening and opportunities to apply listening strategies through guided practice and testing activities. Continuous exposure to English listening materials and regular TOEFL practice are needed to further develop students' listening comprehension skills.
Developing Students' Awareness of English Skills through TOEFL Socialization at Sman 4 Pematangsiantar
English has become a crucial language in various fields such as education, science, technology, and professional development. As a result, English proficiency is becoming increasingly essential for senior high school students who intend to pursue higher education and compete in the global workforce. Nevertheless, several examinees lack knowledge of the Test for English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), which includes objectives, parts and academic importance. This study will describe the implementation of a TOEFL Socialization Program and its contribution to students' awareness of English skills at SMA Negeri 4 Pematangsiantar. The qualitative descriptive method was used with study samples of 29 eleventh-grade students. The data for this study were collected through classroom observation, documentation, and student involvement in the activities implemented. This program was implemented in three phases: preparation, implementation, and evaluation. They also demonstrated that they were engaged, excited and inquisitive with the discussions regarding TOEFL test preparation as well as educational opportunities post-high school. Nonetheless, the evaluation showed that overcoming limitations in vocabulary and diverse levels of English proficiency was still a problem, particularly at some point in this simulated profession. In general, the TOEFL Socialisation Program was effective in promoting students' language awareness and motivating them to be eager about learning English for their academic background towards preparation for professional careers.
Revisiting the Ramayana Modern Interpretations of Sita, Ravana, and Rama
The Ramayana is one of the five most influential epics in India and still inspires reinterpretations that go beyond its traditionally religious limits. Writers like Amish Tripathi, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Devdutt Pattanaik, Anand Neelakantan, and Volga rewrite the Ramayana, focusing on its heroes Sita, Ravana, and Rama to rethink questions of gender, ethics, identity, leadership, and spirituality. Whereas these figures were often considered immutable moral avatars in highbrow literature, contemporary reimaginings eschew blind fidelity to religious law, instead depicting spirituality as a relatable process of self-discovery. This article explores how these reimaginings change the impetus of the Ramayana and contends that modern works ground their spirituality not in divine flawless action but in subjective consciousness, moral imperfection, empathy, and internal metamorphosis. These readings render the epic ever more applicable for twenty-first-century readers seeking ethical orientation amid contemporary social, political, and psychological crises.
From Subjugation to Resilience: The Intersections of Patriarchy, Commodification, and Ethnic Cleansing in Nadia Murad's the Last Girl
This paper interrogates the complex intersections between ethnic cleansing, sexual violence in conflict zones, and entrenched patriarchal structures, with particular attention to the dynamics of subjugation and commodification in the text under review. It explores how women survivors, despite enduring dehumanizing violence, transform their pain into agency by resisting, articulating their ordeals and emerging as advocates for other victims. Drawing on feminist scholarship, the paper demonstrates that patriarchal systems institutionalize rigid gender hierarchies which privilege male dominance while relegating women to subordination, legitimizing male control over female bodies. Within contexts of war and conflict, these asymmetrical power relations are intensified, turning women into primary targets of sexual violence deployed as a weapon of domination and control. Ultimately, the paper foregrounds the resilience and resistance of women, highlighting their roles as both survivors and transformative voices within narratives of war.
Identity Crisis, Ambivalence and Otherness in Ngũgĩ’s Novel Devil on the Cross
The main objective of this study is to examine how identity crisis, ambiguity, and otherness are reflected in Ngugi wa Thiongo’s novel Devil on the Cross. The analysis of the study shows that identity crisis is one of the main points depicted in the novel. Moreover, the novel revealed that due to colonial education and experience, the indigenous intellectuals found themselves in an ambivalent position. Some characters of the novel are placed in contradictory positions as they seek to find out the lost indigenous culture, but they fail to properly speak their own Gikuyu language while they are perfect in English. Furthermore, the middle-class Kenyans see themselves and their people as inferior other than the Westerners. This is because the neo-colonizers strengthen the idea that the West is civilized and a source of knowledge while inviting Kenyans to get knowledge from the Western experience.
Myth and Modernity: Revisiting Epic Narratives in Twenty-First Century Literature: A Broad View
Mythological stories are the ancient foundations of cultures, which provide a cohesive narrative regarding collective memory, morals and behavior within civilisations. Epic stories have experienced a renaissance in the twenty-first century with new adaptations that connect ancient folklore and modern preoccupations. This essay discusses the changing dynamics between myth and modernity through a close reading of contemporary literature that reinterprets classical epics of the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Iliad, and Odyssey. The article examines selected works by Chitra Banerjee, Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions, Amish Tripathi’s The Shiva Trilogy and Ram Chandra Series, Anand Neelakantan’s Asura and Ajaya series to see how retellings help contemporise characters, plots, and ideas from epics in order to comment on present-day concerns such as equality of genders, identity formation, social justice, seeking political power over sport science and history. This paper illustrates that mythological retellings are not merely adaptations of ancient stories but dynamic literary responses that unsettle prevailing narratives and raise the voices of hitherto silent subjects through a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis. These new interpretations indicate a resurgence of myth in the modern world, but growing pushes to reinterpret epic traditions within our changing culture. With a surprising depth of understanding and scholarship, the author argues that contemporary mythological fiction serves as both an oral tradition and a discursive approach to how we comprehend history. In reshaping epic narratives, this literature reminds us of the continued evolution of myth as a vehicle for cultural reflection, resistance and rejuvenation.
Challenges in Teaching English Grammar in Multilingual Classrooms: Insights from Some Junior High School Teachers in Rural Ghanaian Communities
Despite the critical role of grammar instruction in language learning, teachers in Ghanaian junior high schools in rural multilingual communities continue to encounter significant challenges in teaching grammar effectively. This study, grounded in Krashen’s Input Hypothesis Model [14], critically examines the difficulties teachers face in grammar instruction. Employing a qualitative approach and a case study design, the research purposively sampled sixteen (16) English language teachers from some junior high schools in Krachi East Municipality. Semi-structured interviews and classroom observations were used for data collection, with thematic analysis guiding the interpretation of findings. The study reveals that inadequate resources, limited professional development opportunities, and contextual constraints hinder effective grammar instruction in rural communities. The findings underscore the urgent need for targeted interventions, including teacher training workshops, resource provision, and the integration of digital tools to mitigate these challenges and enhance grammar teaching in rural Ghanaian junior high schools.
In Celebration of a Half-life: Translation and Critical Reflection on Yūko Tsushima
This paper presents a precise translation and critical analysis of Yūko Tsushima’s “In Celebration of a Half-life”(2016), examining the linguistic challenges in rendering the Japanese text into English. The study focuses on broader issues of genre, arguing that while translation studies often foreground poetry as a site of untranslatability, prose fiction presents its own complexities through narrative continuity, structural coherence, and thematic development. The author reflects on difficulties in interpreting abrupt narrative transitions, political allusions, and ethnographic terminology, especially in references to Japanese identity and race. Finally, the analysis situates Tsushima’s work within a global environmental and technological discourse, linking its concerns about nuclear disaster to broader historical and transnational contexts such as Chernobyl and large-scale infrastructural transformations. The translation thus becomes not only a linguistic exercise but also a critical act that reveals the text’s engagement with ecological anxiety, futurity, and the socio-political implications of modernity.
Communication Breakdown as a Cause of Family Disintegration in Halfway House by Mohan Rakesh
Halfway House is one of the most remarkable landmark plays in Modern Indian drama that explores the themes of identity and meaning have been explored. The crisis of identity and breakdown of communication in human relations, and the resultant tragic effect of boredom and despair. The article examines how ineffective communication, emotional alienation, and a lack of mutual understanding lead to splitting within the family. By analyzing characters’ interactions, dialogues, and silences, the article argues that communication failure is not merely a symptom but a chief cause of familial disintegration. Finally, the article is on human nature and its complexities, viewed as an exploration of meaning and identity in the turmoil of changing social and familial structures.
The Voice of the Natives in the Select Disability Literatures: A Study
Disability Studies have opened the doors into the gloomy autocratic world of domination, colonisation and suppression, which has engulfed the voice of the voiceless in complete darkness. This paper aims to bring out the voice of the voiceless natives, which has been suppressed and disabled for decades by the monopolistic society. The agony, sufferings and the cries of the natives have been pathetically depicted by David Rubadiri and A. M. Klein in their poems A Negro Labourer in Liverpool and Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga respectively. It also questions the existence of such unjust structures in society in an attempt to draw the attention of the world to witness the plight of the natives in this hypocritical world.
Apolitical or Political: Idealistic Love Pursuits Through the Expression of Individualism and Aestheticism in Eileen Chang’s 張愛玲 アイリーン・チャン Love in a Fallen City (傾城之戀)
In 2020, The University of Hong Kong celebrated the centennial birth of its alumni Eileen Chang with materials from the HKU Archives. In 2022, a new translation of Eileen Chang’s story “Xiang Jian Huan” was discovered from the Ailing Zhang papers of USC Libraries’s Special Collection. Echoing recent discoveries in the Eileen Chang Studies, this project ponders upon the motif of politics and adventure fiction within the cultural landscape of Hong Kong. Re-assessing the role of war in historicity, this paper hopes to contribute to new understandings in Hong Kong Studies.
seeing-in, Upper Paleolithic “creative explosion,” Eileen Chang 張愛玲 アイリーン・チャン, Hong Kong
A Study of J. K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’
In this paper, the theme and narrative elements in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire are explored. The text is the fourth novel in the renowned Harry Potter series, and it predicates a major turn from childhood adventure to far murkier terrain. The study looks into central themes such as friendship, courage, identity, and the battle between good and evil depicted through the events of the Triwizard Tournament as well as the return of dark forces. Written by academic David Wilczek, the book examines everything from character development of Harry Potter to narrative voice and structure, and symbols reflecting themes such as conflict, moral choices, rightness and wrongness in action, growing up (adolescence), temporality. In analysis of literature, the paper shows that through a combination of fantasy and social/psychological aspects, Rowling has created a novel both entertaining and significant in impact across various ages. It finds that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is important to broadening the thematic concerns of the series and mirrors wider discussions surrounding loyalty, courage, and moral obligation.
Metafiction, Black Humour, and Alienation: Postmodern Identity in John Barth and Haruki Murakami
The paper analyzes metafiction, black humor, and alienation as prisms through which the identity of postmodern identity in works by John Barth and Haruki Murakami reveals a fragmented, performative self. Barthian metafiction takes its toll: Lost in the Funhouse is full of narrative mazes, asides, and diagrams, undermining authorhood; Sabbatical is full of intrusions of the we-lovers into the Author, and computer-generated disclaimers, satirizing Cold War absurdities. Black humor intensifies alienation; the grotesque suicides in The Floating Opera are a parody of exhaustion. Murakami is a mix of existential realism and mild surrealism: Toru in Norwegian Wood is drifting through suicides (Kizuki, Naoko), trying to find himself through the frailty of Naoko and the energy of Midori. Such short stories as Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey (name-stealing primate), The Second Bakery Attack (trauma-driven heist), and Sleep (insomniac liberation) use deadpan irony in the context of loss, and there is an implicit reflexivity in dream blurs. Barth's bombastic dismantling of self is the opposite of Murakami's pessimistic survival, both dissenting from fixed selfhood to flux, performing text against relational emptiness through humor to maneuver the absurdity.
An Analysis of Igala Proverbs in Awo Speech Community of Ankpa, Kogi State
The use of language is open to every human who is privileged to acquire the ability to produce meaningful sounds. However, linguists (pragmatists) are saddled with the responsibility of carrying out analysis of human utterances with the aim of discovering the acts performed in the utterances. “An analysis of Igala proverbs in Awo speech community” is a well-researched paper aimed at achieving pragmatic analysis of some selected Igala proverbs collected from the Awo speech community, guided by the following objectives: to identify contextual uses of Igala proverbsand to analyze the contextual meaning of the Igala proverbs. The paper adopted a non-participant instrument to generate its data, complemented with both primary and secondary sources of data collection, through which twenty-five data points were generated and analysed using a descriptive qualitative approach. It anchors on Austin’s Illocutionary Act and Searle's Conversational Implicature theories coded as “pragma IACI”. The findings of the research include the following, among others: the interpretation/meaning of Igala proverbs changes depending on the context in which the proverb is applied. More than one proverb can be used to explain an idea, and an Igala proverb can be used for warning/advice, educating/informing, and recommending that. Further research on pragmatics should be carried out with more concentration on language users’ socio-cultural reality, among other recommendations.
SCRICREA: A Learner Corpus of Creative Writing in Italian as a Foreign Language
SCRICREA (from “Scrittura Creativa”) is a learner corpus of creative writing in Italian as a foreign language, developed at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. It consists of texts written by Greek-speaking adult learners of Italian in the context of structured creative writing activities. The corpus, comprising over one million words, is organized into thematic sub-corpora, each corresponding to a specific writing task or genre. Its interdisciplinary nature positions SCRICREA both as a tool for linguistic research and as a pedagogical resource for encouraging creativity and language proficiency. This paper presents the motivation behind SCRICREA, its composition, annotation and enrichment strategies, as well as its applications in language pedagogy and future directions.
The Spirit That Falls: Water in Cascadian Literature
Cascadian literature is deeply shaped by the waters that define the Pacific Northwest: its rain, rivers, and sea. The name Cascadia originates from the Italian term cascare, which translates to fall, thus indicating a place where water not only becomes a setting of the environmental background but also a creative element of culture and spirituality. This paper will look at the presence of water in four major Cascadian works, including Brian Doyle's Mink River, Molloy Glosses The Doe, William Stafford's Travelling through the Dark, and H. L. Davis's The Rain-Crow. In a close analysis of the text, the paper demonstrates that water in the works does not only form an objectless landscape; it also influences the making of moral choices, the preservation of memory, and the mediation of the experience of loss and responsibility. Water comes to life in Mink River as something sentient and ritualistic; the river speaks of its own brain; rain combines human and nonhuman existence; and the ocean is a place of sacred burial without institutional religion. In her work The Doe, Gloss introduces rain as a magnifier of moral stress, placing the main character in a state than uneasiness rather than cleansing. The river of Stafford is an external and impersonal, but necessary force of the moral decision, taking the burden of a hard decision and providing no absolution. In The Rain-Crow by Davis, the idea of rain is turned into a container of grief, holding the memory and loss in the landscape. These texts, when combined, constitute a literary hydrology of Cascadia and tend to demonstrate water as an element linking landscape to landscape, ethics to ecology, and the living to the dead. Cascadian water is not something that falls, but lives and survives and has something that endures over time
Reconstructing Mental Health Narratives: A Reader Response Approach to Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
Talking about mental illness is an unavoidable discussion with contemporary youth. They share about it through various short stories, novels, and memoirs. There is a vast branch of literature that has been developed, known as Genz literature. One of the works written is Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive. It is an account of the author’s personal experience, which recollects the approaches that were helpful in dealing with depression and panic attacks. It provides a deep exploration that will be of greater value for those dealing with such issues. This paper focuses on analysing the memoir from a reader response theory of how the memoir connects with the reader, creating multiple interpretations, encouraging the readers to reflect upon their own experiences and emotions
A Morpho-Semantic Analysis of Verbal Extension on Fulfulde Negation in Sardauna and Gashaka Local Government Areas of Taraba State, Nigeria
This study investigates the morpho-semantic features of verbal extensions on negation in Fulfulde, focusing on varieties spoken in Sardauna and Gashaka Local Government Areas of Taraba State, Nigeria. It examines the similarities and differences in negation patterns between these varieties and standard Fulfulde, and analyses how verbal extensions influence meaning in communication. The study is grounded in Aronoff’s Morphological Theory and explores the interaction between morphological structures and semantic interpretation in negative constructions. A descriptive research design with a qualitative approach is employed, and data are collected through direct observation and native speaker intuitions. The research focuses on verbs ending in -ugo and -aago, which typically form negative markers with suffixes -ataa/-aayii and -ataako/-aakii, respectively. Findings reveal that verbs ending in -ugo maintain morphological consistency and semantic clarity across the studied varieties and the standard language. In contrast, verbs ending in -aago exhibit frequent misapplication of negative markers among Sardauna and Gashaka speakers, leading to morphological inaccuracies and potential semantic ambiguity. These patterns indicate emerging regional influences and instances of language change within Fulfulde verbal morphology. Overall, the study demonstrates that while Fulfulde verbal extension patterns are largely stable, localized variations highlight areas for language standardization and pedagogical focus. The results have implications for linguistics, language preservation, and the development of effective language education strategies in multilingual communities where Fulfulde functions as a lingua franca
Voices of Testimony and Resistance: Mapping Trauma in Dalit Women’s Writing
This paper argues that Dalit women’s writing functions simultaneously as testimony, resistance, and an archive of caste–gendered trauma. Drawing on works by Bama, Baby Kamble, and Urmila Pawar, this examination explores how these authors transform their lived experiences into collective witness accounts that challenge dominant caste structures and patriarchal norms. The analysis suggests that Dalit women’s autobiographical writing does not operate within conventional literary frameworks but instead reworks life-writing into a testimonial mode that foregrounds communal suffering, generational memory, and political awakening. Integrating insights from trauma studies, feminist narratology, and Dalit discourse, the study demonstrates how these writers map trauma across spatial, bodily, and social registers. Their narratives ultimately reshape the understanding of trauma from an individual psychological event to a structural and collective condition rooted in caste oppression. Through voice, form, and ideological standpoint, Dalit women writers redefine the narrative self, turning testimony into an unmistakable gesture of resistance
The Ethos of American Existentialism in John Barth’s The End of the Road
French existentialism, which has spread its wings in America, has affected the culture and the attitude of the American people. This American Existentialism is explicit in the work of John Barth. In his work titled The End of the Road, the protagonist, Jacob Horner, and his colleague, Joe Morgan, lead an existential way of life. Jacob Horner, who is “weatherless”, an extreme introvert, uselessly self-conscious and indecisive in nature, gets entangled in a triangle love affair with Rennie Morgan, which finally results in Rennie's death and Horner's permanent admission to Doctor D’s Remobilization Farm, thus questioning the purpose of his existence. This paper envisages a critical study of the dissemination of the ethos of American Existentialism in John Barth’s The End of the Road.
Exploring Socio-Economic Dimensions in Orhan Pamuk’s Novel Snow
This article presents Orhan Pamuk’s novel Snow as a compelling and multi-layered exploration of the socio-economic tensions that underlie the political and religious conflicts in 1990s Turkey. Although Snow is frequently interpreted through ideological lenses highlighting the friction between secularism and Islam, East and West, and modernity and tradition its deeper significance lies in its critique of systemic economic injustice, marginalization, and state failure. Pamuk situates the narrative in Kars, a remote, poverty-stricken town that symbolizes the periphery of the Turkish nation, both geographically and socio-politically. In Kars, economic deprivation is not merely a backdrop but a driving force behind the unfolding tensions. The novel illustrates how material conditions such as unemployment, poverty, and exclusion from education lead to widespread despair, particularly among the youth. This despair does not naturally evolve into religious extremism; rather, it creates a vacuum of meaning, dignity, and belonging one that radical ideologies are quick to fill. The article further examines Pamuk’s portrayal of the state’s complicity in deepening social fragmentation. Through corruption, coercive secular policies (such as the headscarf ban), and neglect of rural and conservative populations, the state appears more as an agent of repression than of support. This failure of governance erodes public trust and pushes disenfranchised individuals toward alternative forms of community and justice, particularly through Islamist groups that promise moral clarity and socio-political empowerment.
The Linguistic Landscape of AI Communication: Challenges in Human-Machine Interactions
The quick advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovations has expanded the mediums of human-machine correspondence to a number of new linguistic communications. In this sense, this paper will delve into a better understanding of the linguistic landscape of AI communication, paying close attention to the challenges of Human–Machine Interactions (HMI). We examine how remaining semantic ambiguities, contextual misunderstanding, syntactic complexity, and pragmatic limitations within AI language processing limit what they can do. This research examines the factors hidden behind the scenes that hinder smooth communication, utilising a multidisciplinary approach that combines computational linguistics, cognitive science, and AI system analysis. The findings reveal gaps in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) for maintaining, highlighting the importance of cultural and linguistic diversity; they also showcase the inadequacies of current machine learning models in perceiving nuanced human expressions. We propose possible paths for adaptive language models and context-aware algorithms to enhance AI communicative competence, which would help build better HMI systems. The results are informative for AI design, linguistic theory and user experience optimization.
The Interplay of Memory, History, and Fiction: Metafictional Devices in Holocaust Narratives and Collective Consciousness
In modern history, the holocaust is an important event, and works of fiction about it are marked by the careful connection of memory, factual history, and fantasy. The study looks at how Holocaust narratives use metafictional devices to affect people’s understandings, ask about historical facts, and change what is considered real in a story. It looks at the way self-referential stories, split plot structures, and references to previous works depict past misfortune and help preserve the memory of cultural events. Reviewing such well-known narratives as Maus, Everything Is Illuminated, and Austerlitz, the concept of metafiction and its relationship with memory are investigated in the research. It is shown through an analysis of literary elements that metafiction’s response to the Holocaust is a creative and helpful response, both ethically and in terms of shaping readers’ and the cultural community’s memory. In the article, the author uses a mix of narrative analysis, theories on how readers react, and studies of history to judge whether it is wise to tell stories about real-life disasters. It is clear from the results that metafiction improves people’s awareness of personal and shared trials by questioning the past, making it important for education, remembering major episodes, and discussing cultural issues.
Language, Power, and Identity in AI-Mediated Communication: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
The swift emergence of AI in digital communication has transformed the world of sociolinguistics, leading to important questions about language, power and identity when we use AI in communication. Certain AI systems, like conversational agents and large language models, help determine how languages evolve, how people interact and what identities are expressed. Such systems commonly agree with existing hierarchies, because their data may not equally include the voices of minorities, resulting in stereotyping. Even so, AI supports empowerment, as minority-focused systems can even out power differences and encourage groups to make decisions that everyone agrees on. The special qualities of accent, intonation and speech type in AI-generated speech can affect people’s choices and may help form new ways of communicating. When users deal with AI that sounds like a person, linguistic blending may bring about speech habits that transform and shape social groups. Due to this change, sociolinguistic information is becoming increasingly crucial for building AI systems that treat everyone appropriately. In the long run, AI-directed communication changes the way language creates and changes power and social identities, not just with technology.
Postdigital Aesthetics and the Future of Literary Narratives in Generative Media
The blistering development of digital technologies and artificial intelligence has changed literary creativity to a considerable extent, and this change is associated with the rise of generative media. In this paper, the implications of the postdigital aesthetic intersecting with the literary narrative in the age of generative media are explored. Within the postdigital paradigm of distorted digital and analogue boundaries, the established forms of literature are criticised through machine-written texts, interactive narratives and multimedia combinations. The paper will include an extended literature review of the theoretical frameworks involved in postdigital aesthetics, discuss the changing narrative forms made possible through generative models like GPT models, and suggest a methodological framework for analysing machine-human co-authored texts. The study will help to establish a connection between literary theory and computational creativity with the help of qualitative and computational analysis, thematic modeling, and mapping of narrative arcs. The results suggest that postdigital aesthetics expand storytelling possibilities; however, at the same time, they require frameworks of authorship, interpretation, and reader interaction. We end by discussing the implications this has on literary theory, authorship and education in the future.
Cultural Hybridity and Linguistic Pluralism in World Literature: A Comparative Study of Code-Meshing Techniques in Translingual Fiction
This research examines the presence of cultural hybridity and language variation in world literature by analysing the use of code-meshing by translingual authors. This research uses Bhabha’s “third space” within postcolonial theories of hybridity to show how these authors incorporate several languages, dialects, and writing styles into their novels to resist and break through standard norms. Using code-meshing, authors highlight plural identities and challenge policies that force everyone to speak a single language. By reviewing certain translingual texts, the paper demonstrates that code-meshing challenges traditional language standards, creates a blend of cultures, and helps to create open-minded spaces in literature that truly reflect our world today. The research also highlights the educational and social benefits of linguistic diversity, advocating for the acceptance of various languages in schools and classrooms. This research demonstrates that code-meshing in translingual fiction plays a significant role in cultural and social discussions, shaping the writer’s identity and contributing to the growing diversity of world literature in the era of globalisation and transnationalism.