Browsing by Subject "History"
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History as metafiction: a study of three European postmodern novels, Graham Swift’s Waterland (1983), Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (1989), and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984).
(BRAC University, 2017-04)The aim of this paper is to examine how postmodern novels self-consciously synchronize history in fiction. To be more precise, how and why history has been used in metafictional dimension as a postmodern discourse. In order ... -
A history of scars: An examination of how war and trauma changes people and the stories they tell
(Brac University, 2021-01)This paper will attempt to analyse the effects of war, intergenerational trauma and selective persecution on the human psyche, and how that is reflected in literature through the theoretical frameworks of New Historicism ... -
History through the pages of literature: A displacement theory in the post-colonial era
(Brac University, 2022)This thesis will focus on Displacement theory in the Post-colonial era. Through this paper I tried to bring forward the struggles and challenges faced by POC in the era after colonization. This includes, displacement ... -
Life writing: Straddling fact and fiction
(BRAC University, 2006)Traditionally any autobiographic writing is expected to document past in retrospect just like history. But memoirs like Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family and Sheila Ortiz Taylor and Sandra Ortiz Taylor’s Imaginary ... -
Reanimation of Panam Nagar: through impactful reuse
(Brac University, 2022-06)Panam Nagar holds 400 years of history among its ruins of almost 50 houses, along a 5m wide and 600m long road. This street is probably the only place where such a large collection of historically significant structures ... -
Reshaping identities: The second generations of immigrants in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and Zia Haider Rahman’s In the Light of What We Know (2014)
(Brac University, 2022-05)How identities are reshaped and reconstructed through the influence of history and the ways in which the second generation of immigrants react and adapt within the transnational space is the central focus of this ... -
Revisiting the past: nostalgic postmodernism in British literature
(Brac University, 2019-04)There are more than five hundred novels published during the Victorian era still many British postmodernist writers recreate the Victorian setting, theme and characters in their works. The Victorian Era without a doubt is ... -
Zainul Abedin Art Institute
(BRAC University, 2016-08)The dissertation paper is a descriptive article describing the various aspects that were under taken for the consideration of contemporary art history of Bangladesh and its institutionalization. The considerations explored, ... -
ঐতিহ্য বিলাস (Heritage Centre) : an attempt to review the heritage
(Brac University, 2020-05)Narsingdi has important historical sites which make it very important for the young generations as well the common people. Not only historical structures, but it also has traditional 2500 years old technique of mud ... -
প্রত্যক্ষ নয়নে: Zainul Abedin Art Museum Mymensingh, Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2022)Art is a medium of expression which people use to communicate and express their creativity. The practice of art has been deeply rooted in the history of mankind. It is through art we get to know the various circumstances ... -
ভাসানী আদর্শ পুনরুত্থান : (Rejuvenate Moulana bhashani center through the revival of his philosophy)
(Brac University, 2021)Tangail has very rich culture, history and heritage. 351 years ago, the history of Tangail stated with a dighi (waterbody). People used celebrate all cultural activities in Santosh. Jomidaar and British ruled Santosh ...
