http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/634 Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:47:56 GMT 2026-04-05T23:47:56Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/661 In Search of “Self" in The House on Mango Street Sultana, Rajia 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 understood that, leaving the marginalized Chicana women community behind and only self-development could not help her to find her real self. She realized that she must do something for them and found that writing their untold stories could be a way of paying her tribute to them. She is inspired by their pain, suppression and unfulfilled desires and takes the initiative to break fence of patriarchal control to assure women’s right in her society. Thus she talks about establishing a sisterhood which would allow her and her fellow women to come out of confinement and find the route to freedom. In doing so she feels the necessity of “a room of her own” where she could think and write intimately. But her ethnic background and the socio-economic reality of the United States was not allowing her the space. This paper shows that Esperanza not only began searching for her ‘self’ but also for that space and her roots. 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 Fri, 01 Jan 0006 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/661 0006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/656 Gender Representation in Rock Music Samadi, Rownak Jahan 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 part of music. The distinct music type and unusual projection of rock music made the musicians and the audience of this genre think about it more and more. As a student of English Literature and Language and being a part of rock music I always find a relationship between rock music and cultural studies. Music, as a part of society, changes and shapes the cultural pattern and the behavior of the members of a particular culture and these changes and influences over culture have some importance. Society consists of some major phenomena and more precisely gender, behavior, psychology and perception are the vital. There are some interactions between rock music and the construction of gender through it can be located by the current scenario and the history. The exposure of rock music is changing the pattern of the thinking of the listeners and the followers but history showed that this kind of musical pattern is not out of social construction. Gender inequality has been working since the birth of rock music and as a product of society this particular music pattern could not get out of male biased structural pattern. Every aspect of rock music can be therefore critically analyzed to get closer to the reflection of social construction. So music is not only about the matter of instruments or tunes but society and culture play a big role to establish music as a part of society and that is also reflected in rock music. Rock music is perceived by human beings where gender concept plays a prominent role and my focus is to analyze the underlying base of gender construction in rock music. The role of men and women, relation and communication of them through music and the psychological difference combined create a space of analysis. The representation of gender in our society is being done by music and obviously in rock music, though this image is more prominent in the west than any other places. In our society the flavor of rock emerged with some preexisting notion of gender role based on male biased impression. The youth and their role in rock music vary through the gender construction, class and status. Therefore in one social structure we can find so many different functions and rock music is not out of that function. Religion and culture also influence the music through different gender construction. Media plays even a bigger role to shape the vision of gender through the representation of rock. So in my work I would like to analyze gender through all the social and cultural phenomena, events, values, perception in rock music. Precisely I would like to give importance to the presentation gender of rock music. Rock, as worldwide musical platform, has always been under a big range of representation. In my work I tried to find out that how various representation of rock music reflects the notion of gender issues. 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 Sun, 01 Jan 0002 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/656 0002-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/651 The Shadow Lines as a Political Novel Alam, Nasih Ul Wadud 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 paper attempts to investigate The Shadow Lines from the perspective of nationalism to reflect on the negative impact it had on peoples’ minds because of political uncertainties. This paper will also discuss the patriarchal indifference to women’s contribution in the Indian National Movement with extracts from the novel in the following chapters, “The Shadow Lines & Nationalism” and “Criticism of Nationalism in The Shadow Lines”. Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines chronicles three generations in a family saga that spreads over Dhaka, Calcutta and London. The book is divided into two parts, “Going Away” and “Coming Home”. In the first section, the narrator draws the picture of a war-ravaged London and also depicts the family rapport between the Prices and Mayadebi whose son Tridib enchants the narrator with his story telling and in-depth knowledge of many places. A love relationship between Tridib and May Price, the daughter of the Prices, develops when May returns to Calcutta. The narrator learns about the war from Tridib, his gifted uncle. In the second section of The Shadow Lines, Ghosh pays attention to communal strife in Calcutta and Dhaka caused by the loss of the Prophet’s hair from Hazratbal shrine, Srinagar. 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 Thu, 01 Jan 0011 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/651 0011-01-01T00:00:00Z