Manmay Zafar
This article discusses Krashen's Monitor Model and the attendant five hypotheses. Since its 1977 publication, Krashen, through a series of revisions, have tried to explain the way learners acquire a second language. This article closely looks at his basic premises and the criticism they have generat...
Sumanyu Satpathy
1. Acknowledgements 2. Foreword by Rajeshwari Sundar Rajan 3. Introduction 'Southern Postcolonialisms: The Global South and the 'New' Literary Representations' by Sumanyu Satpathy Part I: Canons of the New 4. A balance of Stories: The Making of a Discipline by Sue Thomas 5. English in an Uneven Worl...
Manmay Zafar
Abstract This article situates Taslima Nasrin, the controversial writer from Bangladesh, in a particular political and religious moment in the history of Bangladesh, to analyse the difficult relationship the postcolonial state shares with a writer whose work deliberately unsettles the issues of mino...
Manmay Zafar
This paper looks at Vidyasagars programme for widow marriage while also discussing his campaign against Kulin Brahmin polygamy, child marriage and prostitution some of the evils that plagued nineteenth-century Bengali society. Vidyasagars diligent effort for the legalisation of widow marriage ul...
Manmay Zafar
This chapter investigates the ways literature and literary freedom are defined by different entities such as the state, reading communities, the press and the media, and the writer herself. All these entities, in their own specific ways, contribute to the meaning-making procedure of a literary text....
Manmay Zafar
ব্রেখটের নাটকের সঙ্গে আমরা কম বেশি সবাই পরিচিত। ঢাকার মঞ্চে সদর্পে বেড়িয়েছে ব্রেখটের পাত্রপাত্রীগণ। কিন্তু সে পরিমাণে তাঁর কবিতা সমাদৃত হয়নি তেমন; যদিও কবিতার সম্ভাবনা ব্রেখটের ক্ষেত্রে প্রচুর। বর্তমান সমালোচকরা অবশ্য ব্রেখটের কবিতাকে পাদপ্রদীপের আলোয় টেনে এনেছেন। বলেছেন কবিতায় ঠিক তেমনই মুন্সি...