http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3855 2026-04-05T23:34:21Z 2026-04-05T23:34:21Z Bahar, Md. Ashik http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/4412 2024-09-05T06:14:10Z 2010-01-04T00:00:00Z

Othering the Minority Bahar, Md. Ashik To Michel Foucault, truth does not have an absolute existence; rather truth is a construction which assumes its shape by the power practice through different discourses. Contemporary representation of the minority community in Bangladeshi films and novels seems to indicate an attempt to construct an unintended 'truth' which seems to inspire the process of othering the minority. Some films and novels created both after and before 1971, tend to present the misery of the minority community of this zone with sympathetic affection. The process seems to resist the othering or at least tries to create a sensibility against this othering among the audience or readers. While doing so, the process itself paradoxically contains the possibility of encouraging that very othering. This dissertation tries to investigate whether the presentation of the minority community of Bangladesh and East Pakistan in written and visual discourses resist the othering of the minority or becomes part of the 'regime' of representation that treats the minority community as other. When a film or a novel tries to sympathize with the minority community, it has to re-create the othering the community faces in real life situation. Repetition of this re-creation in different discourses produces the unintended construction of the 'truth' which establishes the real life situation to be 'natural' to the audience. The effect a film or a novel creates gets included in the entire integration of similar experiences of the audience. The othering of the minority community can not avoid the possibility of assuming the shape of 'reality' through cross references to the same 'fact'. It is to be investigated whether the cross references betray their intended purpose. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2010-01-04T00:00:00Z Swapna, Sultana Jahan http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/4102 2023-09-03T05:15:53Z 2010-05-02T00:00:00Z

Reading Shame in a Postmodern Age Swapna, Sultana Jahan SHAME is contagious in Salman Rushdie's novel. The human characteristic shame is shared by both male and female protagonists of the novel, sufiya and Omar. Although these two characters are treated as marginal at the beginning they soon find themselves at the heart of the matter. thus their essential emotion, shame, becomes pivotal for the whole novel as well It seems that by exploring shame with its entire nuance, Rushdie is actually dealing with the creation of Pakistan based on a religious fervor and the consequent emerging a cannibalistic military. For Rushdie, the history of Pakistan itself is an act of shame. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2010-05-02T00:00:00Z Afrin, Sadia http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/4010 2023-06-22T07:00:39Z 2010-08-15T00:00:00Z

Alienation in Selected Continental Texts Afrin, Sadia Like death or abandonment, alienation is a deeply rooted feeling experienced by human. As social creatures, humans have the need to identify themselves as one of a group, whether that group is a family, a culture or a religion. The experience of alienation is one of isolation of person's need for acceptance. When a person is not accepted by a society, he became an outsider to everyone around him (Hughes, 2004). Alienation is a recurring theme in continental literature. The idea of self-alienation has played a crucial role in modem thought from German classical idealism to Marxism and Existentialism. It was first encountered in the thoughts of Wilhem von Humboldt, Hagel, and subsequently viewed in Feuerbach's and Marx. "This idea always implies the individual's estrangement from his humanity or human species being, from the individual's membership in the human species. The individual is estranged from himself insofar as he is alienated from his essential nature as a human being" (Bloom, 2007). Many masterpieces of continental literature are concerned with the theme of alienation. The term 'alienation' was introduced in the modem literary era and modem writers have explored the theme of alienation through their writings. Modernism is the period of technology and machine and it simply separated human being from others. In his Manuscript Economic and Philosophic Manuscript, Karl Marx (1964) defined "alienation as emotional isolation or dissociation from others" (45). It is found that most of the principal characters of continental texts are consistently alienated. We see them undergoing experience of isolation from society. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2010-08-15T00:00:00Z Raihan-Bin-Shafiq., Md. http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3864 2023-01-17T04:16:19Z 2010-01-31T00:00:00Z

Translations of Arundhati Roy's "Ahimsa", "Come September" & "Confronting Empire" Raihan-Bin-Shafiq., Md. Arundhati Roy, the famous Indian author and a prominent critic of imperialism, was born on 24 November, 1961 in Shillong, Meghalaya in India, and grew up in Kerala. She studied at the School of Planning and Architecture of New Delhi. Her mother was Mary Roy, a women's rights activist and a Syrian Christian from the state of Kerala, whose court case changed the inheritance laws in favor of women. Her father was a Bengali tea planter who left the family when she was only two. Her mother's influence is very important in Roy's life; something that we know from many of her interviews she has given in different newspapers, TV channels, journals and websites. Her most famous work, as an author, is The God of Small Things, the only novel she wrote. It won her the prestigious Booker prize in 1997. Before she became famous for her novel, she struggled a lot and had to do various jobs to earn her bread and butter, such as selling cakes in Goa beach, taking aerobics classes in five star hotel and writing screenplays and acting in movies. The movies in which she acted are In which Annie Gives It Those Ones (she also wrote its screenplays), Massey Sahib and Electric Moon. Media attention first came to her in 1994 when she criticized Shekhar Kapoor's film Bandit Queen, in her film review named "The Great Indian Rape Trick", for exploiting Phoolan Devi (particularly in a rape scene) and misrepresenting her life and her significance as she questioned Kapoor's right to "restage the rape of a living woman without her permission". The controversy regarding this review at last went to court This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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