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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 ...
Postcolonial residual: Foundation of national Identity of Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2020-12)
Colonized nation-sates cannot escape the residual problems of the colonial
environment. The birth of Bangladesh as a self-governing nation-state is directly influenced
by its colonial rulers (both British Raj and Pakistan). ...
Tracing the differences in the representation of ‘Queer’ identity found in few 20th and 21st Century novels
(Brac University, 2021-09)
This paper aims to trace how the representation of „queer‟ characters in literature has metamorphosed over 20th to 21st century as traced in the novels Anne of Green Gables, Nightwood, Crossing and Call Me By Your Name. ...
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 ...
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 ...