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Item Challenges of Cosmopolitan Narrative: Rethinking the Expedition of Indigenous Writer as Self in Postcolonial Literary Paradigm(Premier University, Chattogram, 2024-06) Saha, AroopThe cosmopolitan narrative in the postcolonial world has been encountering challenges to provide the otherness narrative a dignified equal place within the cosmopolitan sphere. As cosmopolitanism is constructed on hybridity and universality with the projection of the globalized world, it appears to be the imperial narrative in the national and international domains. Postcolonial cosmopolitan writers, being the agents of cosmopolitanism, are struggling to explore the otherness/subaltern/indigenous self and narrative in authentic representation because the cosmopolitan center cannot understand and exhibit the periphery subject in its narrative. The prime responsibility falls on the postcolonial indigenous writers who are expected to conned the cosmopolitan narrative with the indigenous narrative. Postcolonial indigenous writers can establish themselves in the position of self in the cosmopolitan narrative giving the voice to the silent, invisible indigenous otherness. Notably, the indigenous writers of cosmopolitanism are the integral part of postcolonial hybridity for their dealing with indigenous narratives and cosmopolitan narratives. The aim of this article is to scrutinize the challenges and treatments of postcolonial cosmopolitan narratives towards the construction of indigenous self and narrative. It will also incorporate the indigenous literary endeavor through Canadian Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse: A Novel (2012), Indian Narayan's Kocharethi (2011) and Bangladeshi K. V. Devashis Chakma's Mui Mattei (2013) to explore the possibilities of indigenous narratives to become the part of the cosmopolitan narrative.Item Applying Process Theory of Composition to Teach Writing in First-Year Composition Classroom in Bangladesh(Premier University, Chattogram, 2024-06) Banu, Jainab TabassurnMy work explores the potential of the process theory of composition to teach writing in first-yea:r composition courses, which a:re mostly grammar-based and product oriented at tertiary levels in Bangladesh. Since most students are non-native users of English, while teaching .first-year composition courses, teachers generally focus more on teaching grammar and then on producing a ftnetuned write-up on the first attempt. However, writing is an active and recursive process that takes time toget the shape of a polished product of the formulized thoughts of a writer. When students do not go through the process of writing in a genre, they end up emulating the structure and sometimes plagiarizing phrases and even ideas. In my article, by analyzing the scholarly works of David Murray, Linda Flower, John Hayes, Janet Emig and other writing scholars, I aim at defining, dividing and discussing the process of writing. I intend to share a few pedagogical strategies that treat writing as a process and encourage multilingual writing teachers to develop declarative and pedagogical content knowledge for teaching writing in English in Bangladesh. I believe, my autoethnographic paper will contribute to the knowledge system that works to help multilingual students to develop their writing skills in English language. Though I take Bangladeshi universities context in my paper, I believe, my argument will matter to the rest of the non-English speaking world.Item Examining the Antecedents of Online Impulsive Behavior of Consumers: An Empirical Study in Bangladesh(Premier University, Chattogram, 2024-06) Nazia, AdibaPurchasing products impulsively is one of the significant behavior consumers demonstrate over the Internet. During Covid-19 pandemic situation, most consumers adopted social media for buying different products and services. This study tries to find out the online impulse buying behavior of consumers by explaining the role of credibility of social influencers, sales promotion, and service quality of the online seller. A structured questionnaire was employed by the researcher for collecting data in a quantitative study design. The sample is drawn from people who lived in Chittagong metropolitan. A multiple regression analysis was applied for data analysis and hypothesis testing related to the factors that influence online impulse buying. The study concluded that the attractiveness and trustworthiness of influencers have a more significant effect on consumers' online impulsive purchase behavior than their level of expertise. Additionally, it was discovered that online service quality and sales promotion both influence consumers' online impulsive buying behavior favorably. The significant findings of current research in a developing nation like Bangladesh is online influencers have a profound affect on shaping consumer's online impulsive purchasing behavior.Item Negotiating Identities and Beyond: An Analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri's In Other Words(Premier University, Chattogram, 2024-06) Islam, Md. RafiqulJhumpa Lahiri abandons her principal language English, in which she has written four pieces of fiction and earned many international accolades including the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, and has learned Italian in a rigorous process of second language acquisition. She succeeds in speaking and writing in Italian fluently and as such comes up with her maiden autobiography In Other Words. She completely immerses herself in the Italian language and culture and constructs a new identity that is free from her previous familial and social strings; she finds a new tongue, a new independent voice. With language Lahiri has had an ambivalent relationship since her childhood; she learnt Bengali to talk to her parents at home, and as she grew up and went to school, she learnt English and mastered it. She finds these two languages to be in conflicting positions and they are imposed upon her. With Italian, she finds a third one which liberates her from the previous linguistic entanglements, and gives her a new life; she falls in love with her newfound language. Lahiri uses rich images and metaphors to explore Italian language and culture and the trans.formative power of language, which brings about her metamorphosis in her transnational and translingual setting. This paper explores the themes of identity, language, and cultural immersion in Lahiri's nonfiction In Other Words. Drawing on the theories of identity, cultural hybridity, and the third space, this paper analyzes how Lahiri negotiates her evolving identities, the impact of her cultural immersion, and the ultimate transformation that shapes her sense of self and others around her. It finally argues and validates that Lahiri positions herself in the liminal hybrid third space and is destined to remain a diasporic subject who is never accepted either by the Americans or by the Italians to belong to them.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 The Imperial Design and Shakespeare(Premier University, Chattogram, 2024-06) Alam, Mohit UIThis paper discusses Shakespeare as a two-pronged author contributing to the establishment and expansion of the British Empire on the one hand, and the site of resistance on the other. He was used by the British Imperialists as the foremost representative of liberal humanism which was the watchword for the imperial expansion, but he also turned out to be the source of resistance for many of the anti-imperialist movements of the colonized peoples. He was and has been treated both as a Prospero and a Caliban. This paper further wants to recognize the fact that even Shakespeare was a tangential part of the poetic geography that according to John Gillies was formed in the ancient Greek time, which subsequently was adopted by the British intellectual leaders of the Renaissance, who held the strong belief the Britain must expand. The idealistic empire preceded the physical empire.Item Editorial & Contents(Premier University, Chattogram, 2024-06)Item The Stability of a de Sitter MTZ Thin Shell Wormhole Using Two Variable Equations of Different States(Premier University, Chattogram, 2023-04) Shirin, Nusrat Jahan; Motasin, Al; Mohammad, NurUsing the standard cut-and-paste approach of Visser, we constructed a spherically symmetric de sitter conformally coupled MTZ thin-shell wormhole. The total quantity of exotic matter inside the shell is determined. The wormhole throat radius and the actual quantity of exotic matter are related to each other as well as to the black hole mass. Different types of variable equations of state (EoS), including p——wo and p——A/a^n o, are used to examine the stability of the wormhole. In all cases, stable regions have been found when w>-1/3, w<-1/3 and w<-1 represent the quintessence, dark energy, and phantom energy EoS, respectively. The EoS stability of chaplygin gas is being investigated.Item Resistance and/as Humanism: Birth of Agency in Rabindranath Tagore’s Mukta Dharo(Premier University, Chattogram, 2023-04) Phuyal, Komal PrasadRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) celebrates resistance against the logic of the machine as an act of public welfare in Mukta Dhara (1922) in quest of human capability to bring about change in the existing order. The play places the natural flow of the waterfall as the central question in a tussle between two states: Uttarakut and Shiv-terai. The river, Mukta Dhara, flows from the northern mountains to the lower plains, sustaining the life in the plains. The technically advanced northern state, Uttarakut turns arrogant as it succeeds in erecting a dam across the w, aterfall, whereby imprisoning the flow and denying water to the people of the lower land. The central conflict results into the awakening of agency in Uttarakut in the struggle for justice for the weak. Despite the unending appreciation from the ruling elite for the machine above Bhairav temple in Uttarakut, the Prince Abhijit sees the embedded injustice of his own state upon the people of the plains. He consciously sacrifices himself setting the flow free. Abhijit’s resistance realizes Tagore’s deep conviction for humanity. By using close reading and textual analysis, this paper seeks to examine in the text two concepts: resistance and humanism. Primarily, the analysis presents the act of resistance as humanistic traits. Besides, it seeks to uncover the interconnectedness between the two concepts in order to see how each of them can independently stand as unique concept on their own. This paper examines the relationship between resistance and humanism in the backdrop of birth of agency to bring about deeds for public welfare and further interrogates resistance as an act of humanism.Item Does Foreign Trade Affect Inflation in Bangladesh? An Econometric Exercise(Premier University, Chattogram, 2023-04) Dey, SudipNowadays, inaction is a burning issue in Bangladesh. The purpose of this article is to analyze whether exports and imports affect inflation and whether current inflation is influenced by the previous year’s exports and imports. Utilizing annual time series data from 1986 to 2020, the study applies the augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF-) test, the Phillips-Perron (PP) test, Johansen’s cointegration test, the ordinary least squares (OLS) method, the fully modified OLS (FMOLS) method, and the lagged regression technique. The econometric results of the study show that exports have a positive, significant impact on inflation. Imports, on the contrary, have a positive but insignificant impact on inflation. Furthermore, the results of the lagged regression show that the previous period’s exports have a negative impact on the current period’s inflation, while the previous period’s imports have a positive impact, though both effects are insignificant. Research indicates that providing incentives and subsidies to major export industries, trade surplus, devaluation of the domestic currency, import prices, distortion of the trade balance, and improvement in terms of trade are the foreign trade-related factors that cause inflation in Bangladesh. The study suggests that the government of Bangladesh should create a competitive trade environment to reduce export-related inaction and lower its tariff rates and non-tariff trade restrictions to encourage other nations to export goods and services to us.