This paper investigates how the novel Habibi （1997） by the Arab-American writer Naomi Nye addresses the theme of border shifting from a postmodernist perspective that deconstructs the traditional view of borders mea...This paper investigates how the novel Habibi （1997） by the Arab-American writer Naomi Nye addresses the theme of border shifting from a postmodernist perspective that deconstructs the traditional view of borders meant to maintain exclusion and hegemony and instead considers them as being often flimsy, malleable, and changeable. Drawing upon her experience as a multifarious Arab-American writer whose father was a Palestinian immigrant and whose mother was an American, Nye tries to build bridges across political, national, cultural, and ethnic boundaries. Through a love story between the two protagonists （Liyana, whose father is a Palestinian-American and whose mother is American and Omer, whose parents are Jewish Israelis）, Nye endeavors to bring about a sense of harmony and understanding between the politically, ethnically, culturally, and racially separated J home whether in reality ews and Palestinians. At the end, Liyana＇s family realizes they can have more than one or in imagination.展开更多
The rogue waves with a controllable center are reported for the nonlinear Schroedinger equation in terms of rational-like functions by using a direct method. The position of these solutions can be controlled by choosi...The rogue waves with a controllable center are reported for the nonlinear Schroedinger equation in terms of rational-like functions by using a direct method. The position of these solutions can be controlled by choosing different center parameters and this may describe the possible formation mechanisms for optical, oceanic, and matter rogue wave phenomenon in optical fibres, the deep ocean, Bose-Einstein condensates respectively.展开更多
文摘This paper investigates how the novel Habibi （1997） by the Arab-American writer Naomi Nye addresses the theme of border shifting from a postmodernist perspective that deconstructs the traditional view of borders meant to maintain exclusion and hegemony and instead considers them as being often flimsy, malleable, and changeable. Drawing upon her experience as a multifarious Arab-American writer whose father was a Palestinian immigrant and whose mother was an American, Nye tries to build bridges across political, national, cultural, and ethnic boundaries. Through a love story between the two protagonists （Liyana, whose father is a Palestinian-American and whose mother is American and Omer, whose parents are Jewish Israelis）, Nye endeavors to bring about a sense of harmony and understanding between the politically, ethnically, culturally, and racially separated J home whether in reality ews and Palestinians. At the end, Liyana＇s family realizes they can have more than one or in imagination.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.10971109,10971211K.C.Wong Magna Fund in Ningbo UniversityProgram for New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant No.NCET-08-0515
文摘The rogue waves with a controllable center are reported for the nonlinear Schroedinger equation in terms of rational-like functions by using a direct method. The position of these solutions can be controlled by choosing different center parameters and this may describe the possible formation mechanisms for optical, oceanic, and matter rogue wave phenomenon in optical fibres, the deep ocean, Bose-Einstein condensates respectively.
