CROSSINGS
A Journal of English Studies
Volume 9 | 2018 | ISSN 2071–1107
CROSSINGS
A Journal of English Studies
Department of English and Humanities University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh Volume 9 | 2018 | ISSN 2071–1107 Editor
Prof. Shamsad Mortuza, PhD Executive Editor
Arifa Ghani Rahman Assistant Editor
Mahruba Tasneem Mowtushi, PhD Editorial Board
Prof. Kaiser Haq, PhD
Prof. Golam Sarwar Chowdhury Dr. Mahmud Hasan Khan Advisory Board
Prof. Fakrul Alam, PhD University of Dhaka Prof. Ian Almond, PhD
Georgetown University in Qatar Prof. Malashri Lal, PhD
University of Delhi Prof. Azirah Hashim, PhD University of Malaya Designed by Md. Maksudul Islam Published by Registrar, ULAB Price
BDT 300; USD 20
T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
Editorial Note
5Occasional Paper
Fiction into Film
7
Anjali Gera Roy
Literature and Cultural Studies
Tragic Displacements in the Pursuit of a Sign: Analyzing the Discourse Produced on “Tragedy”
as a Subject of Knowledge
18
Emad A. Alqadumi
Bertha’s Intuitive Quest: Recognizing the Feminine Self
26
Keya Chakraborty and Nellufar Yeasmin
Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel: An Allegory of Imperial Resistance
33
Md. Habibullah
Bangladeshi Politicians, the People, and Whataboutism
45
Shahinul Islam
Anzaldua’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The Deconstruction of Phallogocentric Narratives
51
Sonika Islam
The Implicit Cultural Policies of US Late-night Comedy Shows
57
Towhidul Islam Khan
Petro-culture as an Oppressor of Women and Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of
Nawal El Saadawi’s Love in the Kingdom of Oil
68
Bushra Mahzabeen
Nigerian Female Playwrights and the Question of Patriarchy
77
Omolara Kikelomo Owoeye
“Talking like Men”: Interpreting Revisionist Mythmaking in Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife
88
Rumana Rahman
The Old Playhouse: Culture, Constrictions, and Subversion in Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine
95
Mamata Sengupta
History, Location, and the Poetic Consciousness in Kaiser Haq’s Poetry
104
Rumana Siddique
Noh Collaboration: Ito, Pound, Yeats, Nishikigi, and Certain Noble Plays of Japan
112
Abid Vali
“She is a Jade”: A Georgian Gaming Woman Re-imagined in Georgette Heyer’s Faro’s Daughter
122
Po-Yu, Rick Wei
The Language Debate: Thiong’o and Achebe on English in Africa
132
Sheikh Zobaer
Language and Applied Linguistics
Motivation in Digital Learning: Understanding Serendipitous EFL Learning through Cyberspace
140
Nusrat Zahan Chowdhury and Mohammed Mizanur Rashid
Improving Writing Skills in English at the Tertiary Level: The Gap between the Standard Practice
and Classroom Scenario
151
Md. Nurullah Patwary and Md. Nasim Fardose Sajib
Development Sequence of Person Markers in Pre-school Children
166
Lubaba Sanjana
Cross-linguistic Composition: Writing Skills and Self-report Strategies of University
Students in Bangladesh
179
Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, John Everatt, and Brigid McNeill
Book Reviews
The Vanguard of Freedom
199
Muhammad Nurul Islam and Md. Sohel Rana
Teaching L2 Composition: Purpose, Process, and Practice
203
Christina Torres
