http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/1677 2026-04-05T23:50:39Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/2007 Men and Masculinity: Reading Simone De Beauvoir’s Legacy of Blame-Game in Kamala Das and Maya Angelou’s Poetry Karim, Raisa 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 paper identifies the old question blame-game against male and masculine force as the primary barrier against the coexistence of men and women. The further analysis scrutinizes how different phase of women life and their personal experience shape and reshape their idea of man. Finally, this paper shows that since woman sketch men based on their personal experience and revolve around masculine force to justify female existence, they should first come to a concrete and concise idea about male, rather demanding the equality at the first place. Without revising their facts and ideas, nothing will change and remain like the past. 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 0006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/2005 Exploring Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye Any, Jakiya Sultana 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 association of bridging the gender and environment conspicuously in ideological terms. The ecological crisis due to the massive environmental destruction and the oppression of women in male dominated society adjoin the fact that race, class, caste and gender are intrinsically interconnected. In this context, this paper explores how the concept of ecofeminism forms the ideologies of postcolonial regions, specially South Asian and African-American spheres. Rukmani, in Nectar in a Sieve represents an ordinary feature of a South Asian rural woman, who maintains an outstanding bond with nature, ultimately turns into the victim of the postcolonial industrialization. On the other hand, Pecola in The Bluest Eye, is the victim of racial discrimination in the American society. Therefore, this paper takes an ecofeminist approach to highlight women identity crisis and seeks to outline how nature is degraded by humans and women are oppressed by men. This paper also presents a comparative analysis between the ecofeminist features of these two novels and shows how the identities of the protagonists are shaped in the postcolonial capitalistic grounds. 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 0006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/1738 The Unbearable Vagueness of Being in Love: Scrutinizing Milan Kundera’s Idea of Love in The Unbearable Lightness of Being Nafi, S.M. 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, and heavily inter-textual novel does not allow the readers to come to a concrete definition of love. The fluctuating storyline and omniscient narrator make it even harder for the readers and critics to provide a steady interpretation of the novel. As a consequence, the idea of love seems to be ambiguous which makes the readers struggle throughout the novel that eventually becomes unbearable for them as well. Thus, the title of this paper has been chosen as– ‘The Unbearable Vagueness of Being in Love: Scrutinizing Milan Kundera’s Idea of Love in The Unbearable Lightness of Being’. 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 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z