Crossings: Volume 12 (2021)

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Front Matter


Editorial Note


Occasional Paper


The Hotel Narrative in Turkish, Mexican and Bengali Fiction
Ian Almond


Literature and Cultural Studies


The Abolition of Gender: Postgender Technologies in Sayuri Ueda’s The Cage of Zeus
Pooja Mittal Biswas


Rape, Bodily Presence, and “Still Activism”: Agency of Indigenous Women
Rowshan Jahan Chowdhury


Metaphors and Metamorphosis: The Politics of Sexuality in Ismat Chughtai’s “The Homemaker”
Shantanu Das


Postcolonial Disillusionment: A Historicist Reading of Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People
Elham Hossain


Emily Dickinson: Parental Expectations as Shackles of Existence
Afruza Khanom


State Oppression and Adivasi Resistance in Mahasweta Devi’s Chotti Munda and His Arrow
Bushra Mahzabeen


“The air we breathe, a forgotten colour”: Rajat Neogy and the Transition poems, 1961-1963
Mahruba T. Mowtushi


Ecocinema, Slow Violence, and Environmental Ethics: Death by Water
Shibaji Mridha


The Matrix: A Dialogical Perspective
Md. Mahbubul Hasan Nayeem


Invasion, Exile, and Resistance: Milan Kundera’s Biopolitics in The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Shaibal Dev Roy


Distress, Duress and Dichotomy: Sociological Perspectives on the Scroll Painters of Naya
Atmadeep Ghoshal and Anjali Gera Roy


Docile Femininity: Repression of Fat Female Body Image in Young Adult Literature
Md. Hasinur Siddique


I am Keats: Kazi Nazrul Islam and the Romantic Poet
Niaz Zaman


Language and Applied Linguistics


Modes of Media: A Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Bangladeshi Television News Reports
Nazah Farhat


Domains of Kanuri Loanwords in Margi
Ali Modu and James Jarafu Jawur


Classroom Interaction as a Way of Developing Students’ Speaking Skill at the Tertiary Level EFL Classroom: An Empirical Investigation
Md. Nurullah Patwary and Swarna Chowdhury


Book Review


The Chronicler of Hooghly and Other Stories
Rakesh Chandra


Of Walls That Cannot Be Mended
Kaiser Haq


Note to Contributors