CROSSINGS
A Journal of English Studies
VOL. 10 | 2019 | ISSN 2071-1107
CROSSINGS
A Journal of English Studies
Department of English and Humanities University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh Volume 10 | August 2019 | ISSN 2071–1107 Editor
Prof. Shamsad Mortuza, PhD Executive Editor
Arifa Ghani Rahman Editorial Board Prof. Kaiser Haq, PhD
Prof. Syed Manzoorul Islam, 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 Printed by
Bindu
Published by Registrar, ULAB Price
BDT 300; USD 20
Editorial Note ... 5
Occasional Papers
British Poetry and I
...7
Kaiser Haq
Reflections on My Dilemmas with Writing
...11
Mohammad Shamsuzzaman
Literature and Cultural Studies
Power Shifts of the English Language in Postcolonial African Poetry
...17
Jainab Tabassum Banu
Landscapes Mythicized: Placing Selected Poems of Agha Shahid Ali
...25
Amit Bhattacharya
“Everywhere I look, you could frame it”: David Mitchell’s Mission to Describe
...40
Joseph Brooker
Restriction, Resistance, and Humility: A Feminist Approach to Anne Bradstreet and
Phillis Wheatley’s Literary Works
...47
Rowshan Jahan Chowdhury
Intersectionality in Adrienne Rich’s Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence and
Barbara Smith’s Toward a Black Feminist Criticism
...57
Leema Sen Gupta
Hajar Churashir Ma: A “Herstory” of Resistance and Emancipation
...62
Tasnia Islam
What is Violence? On Hannah Arendt’s Critique of Frantz Fanon
...71
Md. Ishrat Ibne Ismail
Overcoming the Gleam of Empire and the Excremental State in
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
...78
Bushra Mahzabeen
Translating Medea’s Infanticide: A Reading of Euripides’ Medea
...86
Sohana Manzoor
Notions of Alienation and Motherhood in Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
...95
Olumide Ogunrotimi and Omolara Kikelomo Owoeye
To Speak or Not to Speak: The Silence and the Fear of Social Alienation in
Arnold Wesker’s Annie Wobbler
...106
Mamata Sengupta
CONTENTS
Language and Applied Linguistics
Students’ Practiced Language Policies: A Linguistic Ethnographic Study
...116
Neelima Akhter
Using Students’ Answer Scripts in Developing Writing Skills at Tertiary Level:
A Bangladeshi Perspective
...133
Sahelee Parveen Dipa
Teaching EFL Writing: A Comparative Study of Bengali and English Medium
Secondary Schools in Bangladesh
...143
Rezwana Islam
Tasks for the Transition: A Needs Analysis to Determine Bangladeshi High-school Students’
English Needs at University
...157
Todd McKay
Teaching English Listening Skills at the Secondary Level in Bangladesh
...179
Md. Nurullah Patwary and Md. Sazzadul Islam Rumman
Book Review
The Magical Heritage of Hindi Movies
...201
Shamsad Mortuza
Note to Contributors ...
204
CROSSINGS: VOL. 10, 2019
