MA in English Language and Literature: Recent submissions

  • Resistance and Embodiment: An Examination of Sustainable Resistance Pedagogy in Kaiser Haq’s Poems. 
    Momota, Rehana Naznin (East West University, 1/29/2017)
    Kaiser Haq is a majestic name in the field of native literature and among the very few exquisite poet laureates who dared to interpret the native feelings in English in spite of severe controversy. This controversy is ...
  • Tracing Nationalism in Zia Haider Rahman’s In The Light of What We Know and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane 
    Md. Kamruzzaman (East West University, 1/29/2017)
    Diaspora literature raises issues of immigrant‟s crisis in a distant land and national value is always a concern of identity and existence. Culture, belongingness, root and mother land are the basis of identity and nationalism ...
  • Resonance of Truth and Light in Zia Haider Rahman’s In The Light of What We Know 
    Hayat, Prattasha (East West University, 1/17/2017)
    In The Light of What We Know engages issues like individual choice, class, identity and nationality in the social, economical and political context of our dynamic contemporary world. Concentrating on a single man‟s journey ...
  • Men and Masculinity: Reading Simone De Beauvoir’s Legacy of Blame-Game in Kamala Das and Maya Angelou’s Poetry 
    Karim, Raisa (East West University, 6/21/2016)
    This paper scrutinizes the selected poems of Kamala Das and Maya Angelou from the point of view of what Simone De Beauvoir has depicted in her masterpiece The Second Sex. Analyzing both of the authors and the critic, this ...
  • Exploring Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye 
    Any, Jakiya Sultana (East West University, 6/20/2016)
    This paper examines postcolonial ecofeminism in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and Toni Morison’s The Bluest Eye. Nowadays, ecofeminism is considered as one of the major disciplines in literature due to its active ...
  • The Unbearable Vagueness of Being in Love: Scrutinizing Milan Kundera’s Idea of Love in The Unbearable Lightness of Being 
    Nafi, S.M. (East West University, 1/25/2016)
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a philosophical romantic novel by Milan Kundera demands a thorough investigation on the theme of love that Kundera tries to depict to his readers. However, this multidimensional, existential, ...
  • Translation of “Dimensions” by Alice Munro 
    Begum, Tapader Fatema (East West University, 9/11/2014)
    Canadian author Alice Munro is known as the ―master of contemporary the short story‖ (Wikipedia). She is the creator of contemporary short stories and has changed the definition of short story. Known as ―Canadian Chekhov‖ ...
  • Harold Pinter’s Plays and Postmodernism 
    Islam, Azharul (East West University, 4/5/2014)
    The arrival of Pinter (1930-2008), as a dramatist, revolutionized the theatre world of the 20th century. He belongs to the postwar decades when British society was undergoing a major transformation both in the political ...
  • Translation of “Borderlands: Tlilli, Tlapalli / The Path of the Red and Black Ink” by Gloria Anzaldua 
    Islam, Jesica (East West University, 8/12/2014)
    Gloria Anzaldua in her book Borderlands, talks about spirits, multiple voices and hybrid identity. She also talks about community, love, sharing and nurturing. Only people who share her mental space and history of oppression ...
  • Knowledge, Belief, Reality, Truth and Cloud Atlas 
    Sultana, Nigar (East West University, 12/24/2010)
    Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is a complex novel narrating six different stories of six different characters living in different times in different parts of the globe. What makes the novel even more dazzlingly interesting ...
  • A Critical Discourse Analysis of Thakurmar Jhuli 
    Billah, Md. Masum (East West University, 4/16/2013)
    Storytelling has occupied an important place through time in cultures across the globe and, in each, has attained an important conduit of expression of their integrated socio-cultural ethos (Mitra 2007: 77). Bruner (1990) ...
  • In Search of “Self" in The House on Mango Street 
    Sultana, Rajia (East West University, 6/12/2012)
    This dissertation studies Esperanza Cordero’s search for a “self” that would establish herself as a writer. In her quest she found that she had to take some revolutionary steps to reach her goal. At the same time, she also ...
  • Gender Representation in Rock Music 
    Samadi, Rownak Jahan (East West University, 2/7/2012)
    What does it actually feel when we hear the word ‘Rock’ and how is it really perceived when we listen to the ‘rock music’? The matter of fact is that as a genre of popular music, rock music has always been most fascinating ...
  • The Shadow Lines as a Political Novel 
    Alam, Nasih Ul Wadud (East West University, 11/21/2012)
    Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, published in 1988, is a political novel that focuses mostly on nationalism, the meaninglessness of partition and the 1964 communal riots which occurred in Calcutta, Dhaka and Khulna. This ...
  • The Shadow Lines as a Political Novel 
    Alam, Nasih Ul Wadud (East West University, 11/21/2012)
    Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, published in 1988, is a political novel that focuses mostly on nationalism, the meaninglessness of partition and the 1964 communal riots which occurred in Calcutta, Dhaka and Khulna. This ...
  • Possession: A Romance as a Postmodern Novel 
    Akter, Sabrina (East West University, 12/12/2011)
    Possession: A Romance (1990), by A.S.Byatt, is indeed a romance, but also a mystery, a satire, a detective story and a fairy tale, a novel about English Departments and both a historical and contemporary work of fiction. ...
  • English Medium Schools: Do they lack native culture 
    Zaman, Shammi (East West University, 4/17/2011)
    In this research the researcher is trying to show how the English Medium Schools impede the development of the country. The research sites were located at ten English Medium Schools in Dhaka city. The research objectives ...
  • A Translation of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye 
    Matin, Walima (East West University, 10/30/2011)
    “A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment (Morrison,1970,1994:162) This extract has been taken from Toni ...
  • English in Bangladesh as a Corporate Language: Problems and Solutions 
    Hasan, Mohammad Mahmudul (East West University, 8/23/2011)
    In Bangladesh a number of foreign languages like Arabic, French, Japanese, Persian, etc. are used for various purposes. Besides, for a number of reasons only one foreign language i.e., English is taught as a compulsory ...
  • Translation of three different texts types from English to Bengali 
    Rahman, Muhammad Shafiqur (East West University, 9/15/2011)
    A translator attempting translations from one language to another is confronted with many linguistic and cultural problems, which he or she needs to tackle effectively. Both linguistic and cultural factors can cause problems ...

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