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Rabindranath Tagore and the Politics of Imagination: Nation, Gender, and Global Justice

De, Esha Niyogi (East West University, 1/1/2013)

This paper focuses on Tagore’s increasing activism and his bid to persuade his readers in his later works of the importance of thinking globally and abandoning exclusionary perspectives. It shows how he strove in his writing ...
Re-presenting the margins: revisiting the Scottish countryside in L. G. Gibbon’s Sunset Song

Dasthakur, Saurav (East West University, 1/1/2013)

In his The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists Raymond Williams comments on the gradual institutionalization of the dominant (Anglo-American) version of modernism and the co option of its subversive possibilities ...
Western Democracy in Africa as a Failed Project: Which Way Forward?

Nkwi, Walter Gam PhD (East West University, 1/1/2013)

The role of democracy in societal transformation and nation-building in Sub-Saharan Africa has been compromised by political and social strictures created during more than three decades of autocratic rule of most countries ...
Discourse Structures in Bangladeshi Educational Advertisements: A Critique

Haque, Muhammad Shariar (East West University, 1/1/2013)

It is virtually impossible to get away from advertising, yet we know so little about it. Visual (pictorial) and verbal (textual) elements in advertisements mesh to send the appropriate message to the target audience. ...
Authorized Honesty: The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul

Idris, Farhad Bani (East West University, 1/1/2013)

No acquaintance of V. S. Naipaul could possibly imagine that during the scattering of Pat Naipaul’s ashes, the Quran was recited, but the author, highly acclaimed for both his fiction and non-fiction but also known for his ...
The Theme of Crisis in the Poetry of Yeats and Eliot

Mozumder, Subrata Chandra (East West University, 1/1/2013)

W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot demonstrate the crisis of modern society in their poetry. Both poets were concerned about the disorderly and fragmented social condition of their time – a time of political turmoil, anarchy and ...
Resistance of Achebe’s ‘Heroes’ Okonkwo and Obi Okonkwo: Defeated in the Flux of Nigerian Society?

Sharmin, Sonia (East West University, 1/1/2013)

This paper analyzes the resistance of Achebe’s two ‘heroes’ Okonkwo, the protagonist of Things Fall Apart, and Obi Okonkwo, the protagonist of No Longer at Ease. While Okonkwo takes up arms to preserve culture and tradition ...
The Effect of Accent(s) and Pronunciations(s) of English on Bangladeshi English Language Learners’ Listening Skill Acquisition Process

Zarin, Ismat (East West University, 1/1/2013)

Listening, the most vital skill in language acquisition, is often regarded also as the most difficult skill to attain by second language learners. This study investigates Bangladeshi English language learners’ problems in ...
The Powerlessness of Cameroon’s Reunification Monuments

NFI, Joseph Lon PhD (East West University, 1/1/2013)

This study attempts to investigate the symbolism and popularity of the Reunification Monuments constructed in Yaounde and Mamfe some years after the political reunification of the two Cameroons. These monuments were ...
Court vs. Courtship in Jane Austen’s Emma

Mortuza, Shamsad (East West University, 1/1/2013)

The paper examines the royal dedication of Jane Austen’s Emma as a critical engagement with the regency crisis. Austen decided to comply with a royal request to dedicate Emma to the Prince Regent and inserted it almost as ...
Homologizing Accident: Notes on Warhol’s Car Crashes

Sarkar, Abhishek (East West University, 2/1/2013)

This paper focuses on some paintings by Andy Warhol depicting car crashes to demonstrate how he uses them not only to underscore the commodity fetishism of contemporary capitalism but also subversively to undermine such ...

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