Browsing Volume 11, Number 01, 2016 by Author "English and Humanities, BRAC University"
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Cultural relativism and human rights in Ama Ata Aidoo’s changes: a love story
Ibne Ismail, Md. Ishrat (© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes documents the changing situations of contemporary women in Accra, Ghana. The novel deals with an idea of the Western-styled universalist language of women’s rights, a concept that constructs certain ... -
Mother and transgendered son: a study of gender role conflict in Sherwood Anderson’s “mother”
Hossain, Sanjeeda (© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)In a conventional society men are expected to be masculine. Unlike women, they must be resolute, authoritarian and truculent. In comparison to men, women are presumed to exhibit feminine gender traits like submissiveness, ... -
The place of Pierre Bourdieu's theories in (popular) cultural studies
Mahbub, Rifat; Shoily, Kazi Farzana (© 2016 Published by BRAC University, 2016-10)This article examines the relevance of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s theories to cultural studies. His key concepts such as cultural capital, habitus, field and symbolic violence are introduced and explained in ...