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Item Speak or Speak Not: An Analysis of Two Female Characters in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace from Subaltern Perspectives(Premier University, Chattogram, 2024-06) Rahim, AbdurGhosh, in his The Glass Palace, portrays the female characters with paradoxical qualities. Though they are subalternised in diverse ways, there are some moments when they challenge the elites' imposition of subalternity on them. They do it by decoding the elites' ideology established and made permanent through their self-made institutions and practices . The trajectory of this decoding eventually widens the way of their dealing with their elite counterparts. Their empowerment is a very intrinsic entity that emerges with their realisation of their self-worth . The major thinkers of the Subaltern Studies Group (SSG) reveal the issues of subalternity and empowerment in their innumerable discussions. Contrarily, the thinkers such as Gayatri Spivak opine that it is quite impossible for women to speak. If it is, as she opines, possible for them to speak, there will be no one to listen to them. The female characters in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace namely Dolly and Ma Cho are with the paradoxical qualities of speaking and not speaking . Sometimes they speak which in other times, turns into silence. Thus, they travel between their perceptions of voicing and non-voicing. I71is article, initially, attempts to examine how Ghosh's female characters namely Dolly and Ma Cho are subalternised and so made voiceless. Furthermore, it explores how they get empowered or get voices or are able to possess voices in their distinctive ways.Item Dislocation and the Making of the Self: An Analysis of Rajkumar in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace from a Postcolonial Perspective(Premier University, Chattogram, 2023-04) Rahim, AbdurDislocation is a perennial issue in some of Amitav Ghosh’s novels. In postcolonial literature, the theme of dislocation appears as the result of the imbalanced interaction between the classes- the colonisers and the colonised. Moreover, dislocation is an inevitable experience for those who are affected by native elitism. The colonised people are dislocated geographically and psychologically. In addition, they experience geographical dislocation both internally and externally. Rajkumar is dislocated in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace ds the eventual outcome of his peripheral identify. He is affected socially, culturally, religiously, economically, psychologically, and above all, ideologically because of his dislocation and thus, his dislocation is multifarious. Though he is able to change his identity substantially through gain in his dislocated life, he is bound to experience uncertainty in the long run. The process of loss and gain puts him in a strange psychological state. My attempt in this essay is to analyze firstly, how Rajkumar, the protagonist in The Glass Palace, is dislocated, and secondly, what he loses and achieves in the process of dislocation and finally, what type of self he eventually forms.Item Choice, Voice, and Power: An Analysis of Mafijon in Mahbub-Ul-Alam’s Mafijon(Premier University, Chattogram, 2022-05) Rahim, AbdurThere has been a long debate in the field of knowledge whether women can choose and speak. Colonisation is commonly considered a process of making the colonised people (both men and women) non-speaking agents. For women, it is truer as they experienced colonisation from two edges--the imperial forces and the male domination from outside and within society. Everything in society was designed to put women in the peripheral position. The history of literature has been a biased tradition of entertaining this kind of male attitude but only a few writers have come forward to posit women in other ways. Mahbub Ul Alam, a Chittagonian by birth, a First World War-warrior, and a veteran writer has attempted to portray women in a non-conformist manner in his long story, a novella entitled Mafijon (2003). Under the narrative style of canonical storytelling, he bravely shows how Mafijon, the central character of his novella, proves her existence following a self-directed, revolutionary, and power-oriented self which was unthinkable and uncustomary at the time when the story was written in 1935. In this article, the author aims to establish Mafijon as a powerful woman who chooses, speaks, and speaks to denounce the existing ideologies and the way she gets empowered.Item Imperial Women's Representation of India: A Study of Indira Ghose's Memsahibs(Premier University, Chattogram, 2019-12) Rahim, AbdurMemsahibs Abroad (1998), edited by Indira Chose is a collection of letters on the 19th century British India by English women. During the colonial era, many English women came to India with different motives. Some of them accompanied their relations, while some came to look for husbands and a few to see the country as well. Many of them wrote letters to their relatives living in England. These letters reflect their diverse reactions to Indian nature, lifestyle, culture, religions, languages, people etc. There is a vast body of formal and informal male writings on British India which reflect essentially imperial attitudes. Women-writing on India is rather meager and is composed of letters, journals etc. However, it would be interesting to see how Jar women's writing is coloured by imperial prejudices. In this article, in the light of the letters in Memsahibs Abroad, I have examined how far tile female writing shares the imperial attitudes of their male counterparts and what difference of view sets the two genres apart.Item Freudian Unconscious and the Remaking of Self: An analysis of Okonkwo in Achebe's Things Fall Apart From Psychoanalytic Perspective(Premier University, Chattogram, 2018-07) Rahim, AbdurOkonkwo, in Achebe's Things Fall Apart is a very complex character with different paradoxical qualities in terms of social, cultural, political, parental and ideological issues. His roles as a father, husband, son, leader of the clan, hero, the custodian of the would-be-sacrificing boy Ikemefuna, and his beheading of the boy lead us to a crossroad of Freudian unconscious. The unconscious, as the container of the suppressed desires caused by his father's agbala (womanish) characteristics, leads him to kill the boy as he does not want to be treated like his father. His jaundiced psychological state is responsible for breaking relation with his son Nwoye, treating his family members very unnaturally, being very aggressive in tribal issues, and finally, committing suicide after the killing of the messenger in the meeting. The irreducible autopsy of his father's failure in his practical life always functions as a Freudian Id in Okonkwo which tries to come out to demolish his past and recreate a renewed present where his father stands as a hero. My objective in this article is to show how Freudian unconscious leads Okonkwo to create a self of a hero but his heroic self is nothing but a failed attempt to recreate his father.