Sami Chisty

• Master of Arts
• Notre Dame University Bangladesh

This paper examines William Shakespeare's The Tempest as a text where colonial education backfires as Caliban resists the colonial teachings of Prospero and Miranda and doublecrosses them to assert his agency. Although The Tempest has received ample attention from post-colonial critics, little study has been done on the role that colonial education...

This paper attempts to analyze Albert Camus’s novel The Outsider from an ecocritical perspective. With an ecocritical lens, the paper argues that nature influences the protagonist Meursault's physical and emotional state as well as acts as an active agent in the novel. It also brings the connection between ecocriticism and two other prevalent theme...

This paper is an attempt to break away from the canonical reading of George Orwell’s most celebrated essay “Shooting an Elephant” and analyze it from the perspective of post-colonial ecocriticism. Ever since its publication, “Shooting an Elephant” has been viewed as a literary work that depicts the disturbing nature of imperialism and the impacts o...

This paper is an attempt to project Kaiser Haq's one of the most celebrated poems "Ode on the Lungi" as a resistance to the politics of socio-semiotic violence. Literature and politics are two interconnected phenomena. The contemporary version of Colonialism employs the politics of engineering its target nation's socio-semiotics to maintain an invi...