Browsing by Subject "Postcolonialism"
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A critical analysis of Heart of darkness and Things fall apart: successful or unsuccessful counter-discourse of Conrad’s novella?
(Brac University, 2022-08)This paper aims to conduct a critical analysis of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart and English author Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness to study whether Achebe’s postcolonial novel works as ... -
Her desire: a post-colonial reading of Rabindranath, Rokeya, and Bibhuti
(Brac University, 2022-08)This research focuses on the idea of ‘desire,’ the manipulation of the word’ desire’ in creating a false portrayal of the colonial Bengal as well as her daughters. This also focuses on the lack of representation, ... -
The inevitable gateway from prostitution: a post-colonial study on Eka Kurniawan’s Beauty is a wound
(Brac University, 2021-09)In a capitalist society, where commodification knows no boundary, commodifying sexual intercourse is a genius strategy to augment the advent of capitalism since sexual desire and its fulfillment is indispensable to the ... -
Navigating transnational reading of Abdulrazak Gurnah's text as a getaway to challenge nationalism
(Brac University, 2023-09)"Transnationalism can be defined as an outcome of diverse dispositions and multiple belongings emerging together without reducing either the social context nor the national distinction. This paper examines how transnationalism ... -
Postcolonialism in the Tempest & Oroonoko : issues of race and power
(BRAC University, 2015-03)This paper analyses William Shakespeare‘s The Tempest and Aphra Behn‘s Oroonoko in the context of Postcolonialism. It is an attempt to analyze issues such as subjugation, dominance and language in relation to power. It ... -
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 ...
