Crossings: Volume 2 (2009)

Front Matter


Editorial Note


Literatures Interfacing


“Some Qualities of Permanence”: Tagore’s English Prose
Fakrul Alam


Bangladeshi Literature: Outside the Global Tango
K. Anis Ahmed


East and West in Kim and Gora
Ruhul Asfia


Kaiser Haq: A Postcolonial Poet Writing from Bangladesh
Sheikh Mehedi Hasan


‘What’s Cooking?’- Cookery and Creativity in The Mistress of Spices, Serving Crazy with Curry and Book of Rachel
Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri and Shweta Rao


Postcolonial Literature


Sex, sugar and slavery: David Dabydeen’s Slave Song and the colonial experience
Syed Manzoorul Islam


The Paradoxical Hierarchy in Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing
Mohammad Shahidul Islam Chowdhury


Things Fall Apart: A Reinterpretation of the Women Characters
Nasrin Islam


Diasporic Literature


The Late Mr. Nirad C. Chaudhuri, C.B.E. (Hony.), and the Twilight of Empire
Kaiser Haq


Liminal Phases, Domestic Spaces: Home in Interpreter of Maladies
Naveera Ahmed


Growing up as an individual: Ashima Ganguli in The Namesake
Musarrat Shameem


Imperialistic Legacies


The Imperial Design and Shakespeare
Mohit Ul Alam


Language: Theory, Practice & Mechanics


The English Linguistic Imperialism
Mahmuda Nasrin


The Sociocultural Model: Mediation and English Language Teaching at the Tertiary Level
Zakia Ahmad


Plagiarism in Graduate Research: A Critical Perspective
Muhammed Shahriar Haque


How much reliable are our language tests? A case study
Mohammed Humayun Kabir


Teaching ‘Listening‘ as an ‘English Language Skill
Mili Saha


Fears of Formal Speech Presentation in English: Some Thoughts and Practical Solutions
Nadia Rahman


L1 Influence on Learning Spoken English of Bangla Speakers
S.M. Ariful Islam


Book Reviews


Good soldier, better politician, charming lover
Syed Badrul Ahsan


Women, men, fish and bicycles
Syed Badrul Ahsan


Shakespeare’s Great Tragedies
Md. Shafiqul Islam


The White Tiger by Aravinda Adiga
Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri


The Centenary Volume on Abul Fazal: a treat for thinking readers
Mohit Ul Alam