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Struggles of the past and present: the African American woman in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie portrays struggles of a black Nigerian as an American immigrant in Americanah. This novel shows conflicts of migratory life, relationship between African American and African people and explores ...
Postmodernism: crisis versus construction of identity
(BRAC University, 2014-08)
The question of identity in literature is quite common. The trend of identity formation differs
from pre-modern to modern stage and from modern stage to postmodern stage. Sometimes it
seems very problematic and sometimes ...
A postmodern analysis: tracing the elements of politics, war and trauma in graphic narratives in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Joe Sacco’s Palestine
(Brac University, 2019-08)
The paper aims to show how graphic novels can be included in the mainstream reading culture. Visual narratives not only glorify a culture or a country, but it also instruments to highlight the intricate and gruesome details ...
Her body at war: examining the violated bodies of war
(BRAC University, 2017-12-06)
Countries get made and broken by the various conflicts which are the consequences of political
agendas and ideologies. Some of these conflicts have major roles to play in historical fiction. In
turn, we understand the ...
Enforced CLT or disguised GTM?: investigating English curriculum implementation in secondary schools in Bangladesh”
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
National curriculum and textbooks board (NCTB) curriculum of Secondary level in Bangladesh promotes communicative language teaching (CLT). NCTB curriculum is written to increase the practice of CLT in EFL (English as a ...
The effect of interpersonal learning style on speaking skill of tertiary level students
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
This study investigated the effect of interpersonal learning style on speaking skill of tertiary level students. Five private universities of Dhaka, Bangladesh have been selected, from where 70 students and 15 teachers ...
Representation of prostitution in the novels woman at Point Zero by Nawwal el Saadawi and Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
Most of us tend to associate the word ‘prostitute’ with negative connotations. Synonyms
of the word are used as a slang term against women we want to label as ‘characterless’. When we
hear stories of prostitutes in ...
Writing performanc in English composition class : a comparative study of Bangla medium and English medium school
(BRAC University, 2017-12)
Writing is one of the productive skills which sometimes seems difficult to acquire to the learners, even for native learners. There are many approaches to teach writing. But, creative writing is one approach of teaching ...
Investigating teachers‟ preferences for eclecticism in the teaching of English in Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2019-04)
This study investigates elementary level English language teachers‟ preferences for practicing eclecticism in Bangladesh. Both qualitative and quantitative data were used for this study. There is a growing debate about the ...
Hybrid classes: orientation of technology in present ESL classes in primary level.
(BRAC University, 2017-12)
In the modern time, technology is taking over all sectors. The life of human beings are too
much dependent on modern technology that thinking of doing something without the help of
technology is impossible to think. This ...