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
(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 ... -
Ascertaining the concept of “Fluidity” in sexual and gender identity and orientation: a critical analysis of crossing and call me by your name
(Brac University, 2023-01)The LGBTQ community has been marginalized and discriminated against from the very beginning of its origin and is considered a sexual minority. Although they all belong to the same community, their experiences, struggles, ... -
The aspiration to preserve national identity: An evaluative reading of americanah and things fall apart
(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 ... -
Between the divine and the demonic: Dostoyevsky's 'Demons' and 'The Brothers Karamazov' as portraits of Russian Christian orthodoxy, identity and existentialism
(Brac University, 2024-01)Human mind and its conflict with the heart has always been a dominant part of humans as an intellectual being. There are many aspects & phases of existence which humans fail to understand. Modern humans consider themselves ... -
Chekhovian response to Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich: analysis of Leo Tolstoy's artistic influence on Anton Chekhov's life and works
(Brac University, 2024-01)In the context of Russian literature, the name Anna Karenina is widely renowned among the worldwide readers of classic texts. It remains a hallmark of Russian classics, being one of the greatest books of all time. Similar ... -
Contemporary English poetry: a subcontinental discourse
(Brac University, 2022-09)This study starts by briefly introducing the colonial past of Bangladesh and then gives the personal experience of the author that is influenced by colonization. The paper then tries to investigate the causes behind the ... -
The cross-border journey: exploring the unheard trauma, identity crisis, and perpetual pursuit for “Home” in Crossing and Americanah
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
The effect of psychological realism in 19th century & early 20th century fiction: a close study on Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady & James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(Brac University, 2023-09)Human beings are complex living beings because of the intricate interaction of their mental processes and their psychological background. The premise of psychological realism is that a text’s universe can only be credible, ... -
Eka Kurniawan’s projection of women and patriarchal society: a radical feminist study of Beauty is a wound
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Interdisciplinary theorization of subjugated identities under demystified despotisms
(Brac University, 2024-06)“Interdisciplinary Theorization of Subjugated Identities under Demystified Despotisms” investigates subjugation and the formation of subject identities under various forms of despotism over more than a century. By classifying ... -
Mirroring universalism in Kazi Nazrul Islam: a humaniterian poet with distinctive style
(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
(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
(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 ...
