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A Postcolonial Take on Literature in English and English Studies in Bangladesh


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Metaphor, David Punter reads Chinua Achebe s postcolonial novel,
Things Fall Apart (1958) which draws upon Yeats s The Second Coming (1921) for its title, arguing that the centre is responsible for the very social, political and cultural problems now being encountered in Africa, and perhaps globally (117). While in Yeats the centre is synonymous with innocence, Achebe s position as the colonised reconceptualises it to be the root of all plights. The shift in perspective caused by colonial experience endows the postcolonial writer with a weapon to rework. It also alters and indeed subverts the ideologically coded colonial network of images and metaphors to write back to the centre. Theorised as contrapuntal reading by Edward Said, it is a form of reading back from the perspective of the colonised to show how submerged but crucial presence of the empire emerges in canonical texts (Ashcroft and Ahluwalia, ....

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The Great Men of Dhaka University-562371


Straight Talk
Abdul Mannan
3rd July, 2021 11:55:48 AM
On 1st. of July Dhaka University celebrated its 100th anniversary. As the country along with rest of world is going through a devastating pandemic, killing thousands of people, the Centenary Celebration was a bit lacklustre and token excepting few alumni publishing some commentaries in some national dailies and a handful coming to talk on TV and arranging few webinars. The Vice-chancellor and his colleagues also planted few saplings to mark this historic occasion. One hundred years of existence of a university in a country like Bangladesh is definitely an occasion to be proud of. For my generation it is more so because as a student we could also experience Golden Jubilee of the University in 1971 but as the country was inching towards the Liberation War there wasn’t much scope for any celebration, excepting DUCSU publishing a twelve page tabloid sized bulletin. There were few seminars at TSC. ....

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