Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English) by Author "Noman, Abu Sayeed Mohammad"
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Arundhati Roy’s fiction: mapping the micro-narratives of the marginalized
Annan, Tashfia (Brac University, 2019-04)Postmodernism starts with shifting of ideas from modernism. In postmodernism, authors adopt multiple features like historic-metafiction, magic realism, intertextuality and many more. One of the major changes that happen ... -
The aspiration to preserve national identity: An evaluative reading of americanah and things fall apart
Saha, Thamalika (Brac University, 2021-01)Adichie’s and Achebe’s use of terms and expressions to describe how race has been significantly affecting the lives of the innocent black people whose only desire is to endeavor their anticipated ambition and desire along ... -
The cross-border journey: exploring the unheard trauma, identity crisis, and perpetual pursuit for “Home” in Crossing and Americanah
Nanjeeba, Labiba Rifah (Brac University, 2023-01)Cross-border or transnational migration has been a part of human civilization since the beginning, as people moved from one place to another for various reasons before settling down. Taken together, Americanah and Crossing ... -
Deleuze and Guattari’s Rhizome: Racial discrimination in The Bluest Eyes
Salauddin, Nazala (Brac University, 2021-05)This thesis focuses on the psychological narrative of the human mind in case of portraying racial thoughts and discrimination. The connection and transference of feelings between the different characters in Toni ... -
Depiction of identity disorientation and sexual barbarity: Analysing the racial degradation in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Beloved
Tasnim, Sumaiya (Brac University, 2020-09)This thesis aims to focus on the amalgamated effect of internalized racial identity loss and sexual violence manifested as a power tool in order to control the African American community on The Bluest Eye and Beloved; ... -
Designated Nomads
Aniqua, Tasneem Habib (Brac University, 2020-09)As a response to the refugee crisis that occurred as an aftereffect of the World War II, the United Nations Organisation had created the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees in 1951. The 20th century has witnessed ... -
Despair in Asian literature: exploring Dazai Osamu’s No Longer Human in the light of existentialism, absurdism & critical disability theory
Tofa, Halima Hasin (Brac University, 2022-05)Despair is common to the human experience regardless of any facet of one’s identity. In the course of studying literature in English, we often have little exposure to Asian literature despite Asian literature also ... -
Eka Kurniawan’s projection of women and patriarchal society: a radical feminist study of Beauty is a wound
Salam, Saima Piash Binte (Brac University, 2022-09)The Southeast Asian country Indonesia has witnessed many historical events that shaped its societal structures many times in many ways. Although the history of the country includes the ‘manly affairs’ like the Dutch ... -
An exploration of displacement and alienation in post-colonial context: a close study of V.S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men and Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
Akter, Shammy (BRAC University, 2019-04)The term post-colonialism implies the freedom and political emancipation of the colonized from the colonizers and examines the cultural activities used by the imperial powers to overpower the body and mind of the colonized ... -
Her desire: a post-colonial reading of Rabindranath, Rokeya, and Bibhuti
Shuchi, Mahatajin Rumana (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, ... -
A history of scars: An examination of how war and trauma changes people and the stories they tell
Arko, Khondker Shahad Muktadir (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 ... -
Mirroring universalism in Kazi Nazrul Islam: a humaniterian poet with distinctive style
Sharmily, Nawshin (Brac University, 2019-12)Kazi Nazrul Islam, the National Poet of our country is one of the most versatile genius who worked in multiple literary genres. Although known as a Rebel, the various aspects of his creativity proves that he is more than ... -
The misfortunate elites with a mirage: F. Scott Fitzgerald shaping modern human in This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby
Awal, Nafisa (Brac University, 2023-09)A mirage of human lives is that people are prone to have materialism to find happiness in it; the 20th century was such an age for the United States of America. The rising American economy after WW1 made massive wealth, ... -
Monsters; from unreal to real; a peek into the postmodern american selective psycho – horror fiction
Tabassum, Anika (Brac University, 2023-01)This paper aims to discuss postmodern/ contemporary American psychological horror novels Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison, The Doll Master (2016) by Joyce Carol Oates, and The girl who loved Tom Gordon (1999) by Stephen ... -
Navigating transnational reading of Abdulrazak Gurnah's text as a getaway to challenge nationalism
Alam, Umma Maimuna (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 ... -
Reclaiming Lalon and his philosophy: Deho-Totto, transcendentalism, and our academia
Masud, Syed Farhan (BRAC University, 2018-04)The philosophical and spiritual dimensions of early Bengali literature and Fakir Lalon Shah’s significant contribution to that is still an area that requires further research. Grounded in the tradition of the “sahajiya,1” ... -
Reflection of mental illness and female depression in the works of Sylvia Plath
Chowdhury, Samiha Tasfia (Brac University, 2023-09)Every time someone tries to be physically fit, they neglect their mental health, which is inextricably linked to their physical health. Without mental health, physical health is of no value. Both are equally essential to ... -
Trauma, Betrayal and the Resistance: a marxist analysis of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s Weep Not, Child and Matigari
Hussain, Rusafa (Brac University, 2022-05)This paper aims to discuss Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels, Weep Not, Child (1964) and Matigari (1986), by examining the class exploitation of the Kenyan people both during the colonial rule, and in the postcolonial Kenyan ... -
Unfinished processes: Acting out trauma and working through postmemory
Kaiissar, Jahin (Brac University, 2020-04)This thesis expands on the concepts of trauma and postmemory portrayed in the graphic memoirs Maus by Art Spiegelman and The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. Both memoirs constitute an intimately evocative family story, ...