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Beyoncé: Identity, Stereotypes and Cultural Roots of a Southern Diva Sadeka Sabrina Haque Abstract Black identity has always been the acknowledgement of a common history that generated the sense of African-American uniqueness along with the stereotyping notions. My focus will be the issue of the African-American identity as it has been evolved through the years, as well as racial and gender ideologies that formed this identity. And Beyoncé the singing Diva of the American South pompously conforms to these ideologies. The Continue Reading

Formal Innovation and Political Criticism in a Bangladeshi Alternative Film Naadir Junaid Abstract Rarely do we see innovative use of complicated filmic techniques in commercially-motivated films, because in order to maximize profit commercial filmmakers always incorporate specific audience-pleasing elements which serve to amuse and entertain the spectators. By providing glamour and gaudiness, larger than life heroes, unrealistic solutions of social problems, and theatrical acting entertainment-based films hardly enable the spectators to critically perceive the roots of contemporary social and political problems. Continue Reading

Only connect!”: In lieu of an Editorial Mashrur Shahid Hossain Abstract Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die. (Forster, 1910, p. 133) Keywords Patriarchy; women's subordination Full Text Continue Reading

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