AbstractThis article aims to shed light on how and why the underground urban metal scene in Bangladesh came into existence, and why it takes the forms it takes in this post-colonial country. Consistent with much recent work about alternative rock, it is argued that the concept of scene is helpful in...
Alan Tye, Gillian Key, Jamieson A. Copsey
Richard Milton
Racism and Ethnic Minorities Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Practice Cultural Competence in Social Work Communities with Roots in India Communities with Roots in Pakistan and Bangladesh Communities with Roots in the Caribbean Communities with Roots in China Economic Migrants and Refugees Developing...
Gayle V. Fischer
Foreword by Christie Farnham Introduction by Joan Hoff Africa African-American Women Freed Women Late Nineteenth Century Other Slavery Theory, Issues, and Historiography Twentieth Century Agriculture Agricultural Workers Farms and Farmers Rural Life Art Crafts Visual Fine Arts Film, Television, Phot...
Radica Mahase
What are the dynamics of the abolition of the Indian indentureship system? Why was it ended? Who were the main players in the final end of the labour scheme? Were Indian labourers and/or the Indian middle classes actively involved in the processes leading towards complete abolition? This book examin...
Pallavi Rastogi
In a post-war migratory, cultural trajectory that was articulated initially and predominantly by men, black and Asian women writers in Britain have used prose fiction to achieve literary self-determination. Broadly defined as the agency to author one's identity against a prescriptive social order, t...
Hafiza Nilofar Khan
This essay deals with the treatment of wifely agency as delineated by three South Asian women writers: Ismat Chughtai, Tehmina Durrani and Selina Hossain. It tries to prove that the Muslim wives as projected in the fiction of these writers from the patriarchal societies of India, Pakistan and Bangla...
Eddie Chambers
Abstract This article explores some of the ways in which the act of rioting has been visualized, firstly within reggae music and secondly within the work of several black British artists. The article begins with a consideration of images of burning buildings that were captured during the course of t...
Anupama Mohan
The essay turns to Punyekante Wijenaike's 1971 novella, Giraya, to study the ways in which the Gothic features as a framing device for the exploration of the gendered and ideological domain of home in twentieth-century Sri Lankan writing. The walauwe or feudal manor is transformed, in Wijenaike's no...
Maryam Mirza
This book is an examination of how English-language fiction by women writers from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka has grappled with the idea and practice of resistance. A valuable, original and timely contribution to the field of South Asian literary and cultural studies, this book extends...
Md Shoaib Ahmed
Guilty Me! Walking on the high street, Wearing jeans and shoes from Debenham Knitwear and jacket from Marks & Spencer Scarf and gloves from River Island: All are "Made in Bangladesh".Browsing from shop to shop To buy something for Christmas.Inner soul asked me, "You have already enough clothes.Why d...
Abdul Aziz
This study explores historic class-based obstacles in the dispensation of secular pedagogy in the Bengal region with the objective of presenting a better understating of the present pedagogical positioning of the British Bangladeshi diaspora of Tower Hamlets. This study charts the visitation of symb...
Md. Abu Saleh Nizam Uddin
Caribbean poet Derek Walcott , in his commitment to the Caribbean and, of course, with artistic excellence, disappointingly finds his nation still confined to marginalization which is self-imposed, though it was colonially imposed during the colonial period. The issues contributing to this self-impo...
Sandra Vlasta
Postcolonial fiction dealing with the experience of migration often focuses on both the place left behind and the new home. In the case of British fiction, both of these spaces can be islands not only emblematizing centre-periphery relations but also unsettling colonial history. As Paul Smethurst sh...