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Kamruzzamann Asif
Jahangirnagar University, Dept of English, Graduate Student
- Jahangirnagar University, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Department MemberPremier University Chittagong, Department of English Language and Literature (DELL), Graduate Studentadd
- Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Suicide, Suicide (Psychology), Suicide (History), Anthropology of Suicide, and 20 moreEmile Durkheim, History of Suicide, Emma Bovary, Chester Bennington, Suicide in Literature, Death & Suicide in Literature, Gustave Flaubert, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Representations of Suicide and Suicide Bereavement, Absurdist and Existentialist Literature, Egoistic suicide, Altruistic Suicide, Anomic Suicide, Fatalistic Suicide, Suicide: A Study in Sociology, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Theory, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Lacanedit
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Appropriation, as a concept, stands for turning a thing into personal property. On the other hand, the notion of cultural appropriation stands for privatising the element of other cultures for personal use. Taking the element of other... more
Appropriation, as a concept, stands for turning a thing into personal property. On the other hand, the notion of cultural appropriation stands for privatising the element of other cultures for personal use. Taking the element of other cultures, as well as, borrowing style, motif, story, and other artistic elements (e.g., language) for artistic representation are also acts of cultural appropriation. This article gives a reading of Tauquir Ahmedās film, Haldaa (2017) from a viewpoint of cultural appropriation to show that his representation of Caį¹gĆ£ia (ą¦ą¦¾ą¦ą¦ą¦¾ą¦ą¦ą¦Æą¦¼ą¦¾) language is a distorted version of the language of Chattogram district that ethically as well as aesthetically mis/represents it. This writing would consider Haldaa as a work of a cultural outsider to show that the mis/representation is a result of an unequal power politics of outsider/insider and representer/represented. This is a discursive analysis of the film because the dialogues are examined from a viewpoint that they are culturally constructed.
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This writing, using Gilles Deleuze and FĆ©lix Guattariās philosophical concepts of ābeing a majoritarianā and ābecoming a minoritarianā as tools, examines the character of Nora Helmer from Henrik Ibsenās A Dollās House (1879) to show the... more
This writing, using Gilles Deleuze and FĆ©lix Guattariās philosophical concepts of ābeing a majoritarianā and ābecoming a minoritarianā as tools, examines the character of Nora Helmer from Henrik Ibsenās A Dollās House (1879) to show the transformation in her approaches as a journey of an individual from ābeing a majoritarianā to ābecoming a minoritarianā to argue that, unlike Torvald Helmer, Nora has realised her doll-like condition, and subsequently begins her endless journey of a revolutionary--a ābecoming-minoritarian.ā
According to Deleuze and Guattari, the difference between the notions of majoritarianism and minoritarianism is not quantitative rather they are ideological. The concept of majoritarianism represents the system, the standard of a system, and the constantness of a system. On the contrary, the notion of minoritarianism represents all the subsystems that challenge the system, the standard of a system, and the constantness of a system. This critical discourse analysis of Ibsenās A Dollās House, with reference to the concepts of ābeing a majoritarianā and ābecoming a minoritarian,ā examines the characters of Nora and Torvald to show the contrast between them as individuals where Nora begins the journey as a doll, a majoritarian, and gradually transforms herself to ābecoming a minoritarianā but Torvald remains a doll--a majoritarian.
According to Deleuze and Guattari, the difference between the notions of majoritarianism and minoritarianism is not quantitative rather they are ideological. The concept of majoritarianism represents the system, the standard of a system, and the constantness of a system. On the contrary, the notion of minoritarianism represents all the subsystems that challenge the system, the standard of a system, and the constantness of a system. This critical discourse analysis of Ibsenās A Dollās House, with reference to the concepts of ābeing a majoritarianā and ābecoming a minoritarian,ā examines the characters of Nora and Torvald to show the contrast between them as individuals where Nora begins the journey as a doll, a majoritarian, and gradually transforms herself to ābecoming a minoritarianā but Torvald remains a doll--a majoritarian.
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Research Interests: Education, Sex, Sexuality, Discrimination, Gender, and 15 moreSigmund Freud, Bangladesh, Gender Discrimination, Taboo, Society, Patriarchy, Sexism, School, Other, Textbook Analysis, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Discrimination, Psychological Issues of Third Gender or Transgender or Hijra, Oedipus Complex, and Electra Complex
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[Dark Waters (2019) is the story of a corporate defence lawyer who is fighting a case to prove that DuPont, a chemical manufacturing corporation, is indeed responsible for cancers and other diseases among a lot of people in West Virginia.... more
[Dark Waters (2019) is the story of a corporate defence lawyer who is fighting a case to prove that DuPont, a chemical manufacturing corporation, is indeed responsible for cancers and other diseases among a lot of people in West Virginia. While reviewing the movie Muhammad Kamruzzamann urges that this is high time that people Bangladesh questions governing bodies and the companies that are responsible for taking our country at the top of every pollution rating]-- New Age
Research Interests: Film Studies, Todd Haynes, DuPont, Teflon, Environmental Protection Agency, and 13 moreJohn Denver, PFOS and PFOA as emerging pollutants in water., Covid-19, Coronavirus COVID-19, Mark Ruffalo, Pandemic Coronavirus COVID19, COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Dark Waters, Robert Bilott, The Lawyer Who Became DuPontās Worst Nightmare, Take Me Home, Country Roads, perfluorooctanoic acid, and IQAir
"Bangladesh was created in 1971 through cumulative efforts of ordinary people. The importance of 1947 or even the resistance against the British imperialists on our liberation war cannot be ignored. However, as a nation, do we realise and... more
"Bangladesh was created in 1971 through cumulative efforts of ordinary people. The importance of 1947 or even the resistance against the British imperialists on our liberation war cannot be ignored. However, as a nation, do we realise and admit these crucial phases of history, both intellectually and academically? Muhammad Kamruzzaman raises these questions after he visited the empty library room of Birkonya Pritilota Sanskritik Bhavan and argues that power quarters are deliberately presenting a version of the history to the future generation only to make them intellectually unaware of their long legacy of resistance." _NEW AGE_
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Media and Cultural Studies, Language and Power, Postcolonial Feminism, Stuart Hall, and 15 moreArt and Cultural Theory, Postcolonialism, Gender and Feminism, Normalisation, Politics of representation, Normalization, Neocolonialism, Decolonialism, Faminism and media, Anticolonialism, State capitalism: its possibilities and limitations, Narrative and Social Construction of Reality, Media Represenations, Araby, Constructed Reality, Pritilota, and Pritilata
Haruki Murakamiās _Norwegian Wood_ (1987) is set in Tokyo of 1960, when like many other countries, students there were protesting at the established order of the society. On the backdrop of this, Murakami, through a first-person... more
Haruki Murakamiās _Norwegian Wood_ (1987) is set in Tokyo of 1960, when like many other countries, students there were protesting at the established order of the society. On the backdrop of this, Murakami, through a first-person narrative, sketches a story of loses and adolescent sexuality, reviews Muhammad Kamruzzamann--'NEW AGE'
Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Aesthetics, Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis And Literature, Haruki Murakami, and 11 moreArundhati Roy, The Psychology of Human Sexuality, The God of Small Things, Psychosomatic Disorders, Teen Suicide, Id Ego Superego, Psychosexual functioning, Teenagers with Sensory Disfunction, Norwegian Wood, Norwegian Wood and The God of Small Things, and Haruki Murakami and Arundhati Roy
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"The much talked about film of 2018 _Debi: Misir Ali Prothombar_ (2018) is an adaptation of a novel by Humayun Ahmed and directed by Anam Bishwas. Through different theoretical lenses, Muhammad Kamruzzamann reviews the film" New Age.
Research Interests: Psychoanalysis, Heterosexuality, Film Analysis, Surrealism, Sigmund Freud, and 12 moreMagical Realism, Haruki Murakami, Psychoanalytical Criticism, Gabriel GarcĆa MĆ”rquez, Groundhog Day, Eternal Recurrence, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Friedrich Nietzsche The Gay Science, Repressed Memories, Norwegian Wood, Shaibal Dev Roy, and short story āI Sell My Dreamsā
With allusions to two classic European literatures, Muhammad Kamruzzamann talks about the unquenchable thirst for knowledge of Dante and Faust--'NEW AGE'
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Ain o Salish Kendra, during a press conference on January revealed that at least 466 people were killed in cross-fire and police custody in 2018, contrary to 162 in 2017. Comparing the sharp rise of number of extra-judicial killing to... more
Ain o Salish Kendra, during a press conference on January revealed that at least 466 people were killed in cross-fire and police custody in 2018, contrary to 162 in 2017. Comparing the sharp rise of number of extra-judicial killing to Edgar Allan Poeās short story āA Tell-Tale Heartā, writes Muhammad Kamruzzamann.--'NEW AGE'
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In the modern economic system, the only certain reality is class struggle. Mrinal Senās 1979 movie āEk Din Pratidinā portrays the struggle of a young woman from economically marginalised society. Using her struggle to interpret our... more
In the modern economic system, the only certain reality is class struggle. Mrinal Senās 1979 movie āEk Din Pratidinā portrays the struggle of a young woman from economically marginalised society. Using her struggle to interpret our current political system and vote-driven political agenda, writes Muhammad Kamruzzaman.--'NEW AGE'
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A short story by Anton Chekhov deals with a womanās obsession with expensive clothing and her outlook. To connect the story with the context of Bangladesh, Muhammad Kamruzzamann points out the contribution of our garment industry and... more
A short story by Anton Chekhov deals with a womanās obsession with expensive clothing and her outlook. To connect the story with the context of Bangladesh, Muhammad Kamruzzamann points out the contribution of our garment industry and their poor treatment by the state.--'NEW AGE'
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The socio-political situation of 1947 depicted in Nandita Dasās Manto (2018) has explicit and implicit resonance in present day politics of Bangladesh writes Muhammad Kamruzzamann in his review of the movie.--'NEW AGE'
Research Interests: Film Analysis, Religious, Politics, History, Cinema , Nation -State and Literature,Comparative Literature, tribal, cultural, ethnic and Religious identity Conflicts, Saadat Hasan Manto, and 12 moreManto, Postcolonial Conflict, Contradictions in Democracy, Partition, Ethnic Conflicts, Communalism, Religious Revivalism, Toba Tek Singh, Nomination process of parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, Partition of 1947, Election Manifestos, Nandita Das, Manto and 1947, Oopad di gudgud di annexe di bedhyan di moong di dal of Pakistan and Hindustan andā¦ Manto, Durr phitey mun, and Thanda Gosht
Democratic practices in Bangladesh has somewhat failed to be institutionalised. Moreover, the power quarters are always after subjective interest rather than overall greater betterment of the society. Our mainstream democracy and... more
Democratic practices in Bangladesh has somewhat failed to be institutionalised. Moreover, the power quarters are always after subjective interest rather than overall greater betterment of the society. Our mainstream democracy and so-called democratic practices are indeed a conspiracy against democracy, writes Muhammad Kamruzzamann.--'NEW AGE'
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Philosophy, Religion and Politics, South Asian Politics, Democracy, and 15 moreBertrand Russell, Bangladesh, Jean Jaques Rousseau, Political propaganda and Literature, NiccolĆ² Machiavelli, Girolamo Savonarola, Machiavellianism, Antidemocratic Thought, 15th Century Florence, 16th Century Florence, The Prince, Western Political Philosophy, The Discourses, The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, and Democratic political domination
Binary and non-binary people are frequently characterised by their external genitals as well as their gender performances. Arguably, these categorisations don't help to understand some of the female characters (i.e., Rehana, Mimi, Annie,... more
Binary and non-binary people are frequently characterised by their external genitals as well as their gender performances. Arguably, these categorisations don't help to understand some of the female characters (i.e., Rehana, Mimi, Annie, and the principal) of Abdullah Mohammad Saad's film, Rehana Maryam Noor (2021), because their activities, in my opinion, can't simply be interpreted from a biologically characterised viewpoint. This writing tries to appreciate the above-mentioned female characters from the majoritarian and minoritarian viewpoints developed by Gilles Deleuze and FĆ©lix Guattari, in their seminal work, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1980 in French). Deleuze and Guattari try to categorise gender roles from a political viewpoint that is quite opposite to the biologically characterised gender role.
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Published in "The Daily Observer," Dec. 02, 2018
Research Interests: Gender Equality, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Simone de Beauvoir, Petronius, and 15 moreFeminist Literary Theory and Gender Studies, Feminism and Social Justice, Gender Inequalities, Patriarchal Society, Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives, Womanhood, Tribal Woman and Patriarchal Structure in North East India, Gynocentrism, Feminist Existentialism, Widow Burning, Binary Gender Studies, Androcentric Consciousness, Male Supremacy, The Matron of Ephesus, and Why the Novel Matters
The title, āOrgasm Precedes Essence,ā is an inspired one taken from the film, Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013). In the film, Emma tries to explain āExistence Precedes Essence,ā a Sartrean existential concept, to AdĆØle. Later, AdĆØle,... more
The title, āOrgasm Precedes Essence,ā is an inspired one taken from the film, Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013). In the film, Emma tries to explain āExistence Precedes Essence,ā a Sartrean existential concept, to AdĆØle. Later, AdĆØle, after making love to Emma, humourously says: āOrgasm Precedes Essence.ā Does the title have anything to with this writing? Probably not. But it sounds as significant as the other one: āExistence Precedes Essence.ā In this writing, āExistenceā precedes āOrgasm,ā and, for sure, in another one āOrgasmā will precede everything.
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This writing tries to appreciate a couple of lines, written by Khursheed Ahmad, Yih sab tumhaara karam hai aaqa | Kih baat ab tak bani hui hai (Lord, it is only because of Your blessing | That everything continues to prosper), with... more
This writing tries to appreciate a couple of lines, written by Khursheed Ahmad, Yih sab tumhaara karam hai aaqa | Kih baat ab tak bani hui hai (Lord, it is only because of Your blessing | That everything continues to prosper), with reference to Gƶdel's incompleteness theorem to show that the meaning/s of the lines can be conflicting with its implementation/s or association/s with other text/s because of the complexity of being true, false, or none of the former.
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The title of this writing is āMujh se pehli si muhabbat mere mehboob na maangā (Darling, do not ask from me the love of yesterday). And the reason is: since I became aware of the politics of language, things are quite dark between us. I... more
The title of this writing is āMujh se pehli si muhabbat mere mehboob na maangā (Darling, do not ask from me the love of yesterday). And the reason is: since I became aware of the politics of language, things are quite dark between us. I choose the word ādarkā consciously to show how language makes someone aware of colour as a negative expression.
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This writing tries to understand Michel Foucaultās the notion of āsovereignā and Achille Mbembeās ānecropoliticsā with a view to analysing Josef Ahmed being granted a presidential pardon, as well as Haris Ahmed and Anis Ahmed being able... more
This writing tries to understand Michel Foucaultās the notion of āsovereignā and Achille Mbembeās ānecropoliticsā with a view to analysing Josef Ahmed being granted a presidential pardon, as well as Haris Ahmed and Anis Ahmed being able to attend their nephewās wedding, though they are described as wanted criminals in Al Jazeeraās āAll the Prime Ministerās Men.ā But the state claimed that they had been granted presidential pardon too.
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Seemingly, suicide is a conscious act of killing oneself but Ćmile Durkheim, in his Suicide: A study in sociology (1897), presents a groundbreaking sociological study of suicide asserting that social causes can be responsible for suicide... more
Seemingly, suicide is a conscious act of killing oneself but Ćmile Durkheim, in his Suicide: A study in sociology (1897), presents a groundbreaking sociological study of suicide asserting that social causes can be responsible for suicide as well. The book proposes a typology of suicide based on low and high social integration (Egoistic and Altruistic suicide), and low and high social oppression (Anomic and Fatalistic suicide). However, this writing revolves around the character of Emma Bovary to depict the contextual elements which have played significant role in shaping the character of Emma in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1856) and, ultimately, led her to drink arsenic.
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Meaning is a political bargain. Probably there is nothing natural about the process of producing meaning because meaning is a naturalised system used for the act of naturalising something. For instance, the ongoing bargain between the... more
Meaning is a political bargain. Probably there is nothing natural about the process of producing meaning because meaning is a naturalised system used for the act of naturalising something. For instance, the ongoing bargain between the right to abortion and bans on the right to abortion could be an example of naturalising a new meaning (Dobbs v. Jackson) by rejecting another formerly naturalised meaning (Roe v. Wade). Considering "abortion" and "bans of abortion" as two different political ways of producing meaning, this writing analyses "abortion" as an existential means of producing meaning and "bans of abortion" as a post-existential means of producing meaning. The purpose of this writing is to show: "why does an existential means of producing meaning (e.g., abortion) become politically meaningless with reference to a post-existential condition that systematically makes meaning a predetermined notion?"
Research Interests: Necropolitics, Meaning, Michel Foucault, Political Rights, Bio-Politics, and 15 moreAbortion, Existentialism, Abortion legislation, Abortion Law, Achille Mbembe, Institutional Discrimination, Post-Existentialism, Roe Vs. Wade, Woman's Rights, Systemic Oppression, Biopolitics/Necropolitics, politics of meaning , meaning is political, Post Existentialism, and Dobbs v. Jackson
The basic difference between a book and a film is that: for a book, one needs to imagine the picture of the written discourse, and for a film, there is no need of imagining the discourse. Otherwise, the act of decoding the sign is the... more
The basic difference between a book and a film is that: for a book, one needs to imagine the picture of the written discourse, and for a film, there is no need of imagining the discourse. Otherwise, the act of decoding the sign is the same for both book and film. Significantly, compositional elements are same as well (e.g., intertextuality). But the media of encoding a sign makes the difference: for a book, it is mostly symbolic (e.g., word) and occasionally iconic (e.g., photo) or both; but for a film, it is chiefly iconic though symbolic sign (e.g., sound) also plays a vital. However, this writing deals with the issue of intertextuality and tries to locate intertextualities depicted by Todd Phillips in his film, Joker (2019). Intertextuality According to Julia Kristeva, intertextuality denotes the notion of a literary text sharing an interdependent relationship with all the texts written before. She proposes, 'a literary text is not an isolated phenomenon but is made up of a mosaic of quotations, and that any text is the 'absorption and transformation of another'.' She also proposes that intertextuality signifies a switch of one or numerous sign systems into another or many. Kristeva uses the word 'transposition' to describe the switch. For her, transposition is not simply the echo or projection of discourses but the transposition of discourses into one another so that signs of a discourse are overlapped with signs from another discourse/s.
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Published in "The Asian Age," Jan 26, 2019.
Research Interests: Death, Albert Camus, Absurdism, Existentialism, Camus, Authenticity, Existentialism, and 11 moreL'Ćtranger, Camus & Sartre, The Stranger, Albert Camus, Capital Punishment, Absurd, Ethics and Aesthetics of Albert Camus, Meursault, Albert Camus and philosophy, The Outsider, Camus Society, Philosophy of Albert Camus, and Existentialism of Albert Camus
Published in "The Asian Age," Dec 26, 2019.
Research Interests: Humanistic-Existential, Norwegian Literature, Jean-Paul Sartre, Modern Norwegian Literature, Ibsen, and 13 moreExistentialism, Patriarchy, Ibsen studies, Henrik Ibsen, Existentialism and Literature, European modernism. Expressionism in Drama. August Strindberg. Henrik Ibsen. Scandinavian Film and Media. Cinema Studies. Architecture and Spatiality. Crime Fiction. Stieg Larsson. Gender and Women's Studies., A Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen Plays and Theory, existential humanism, Being-For-Itself, Being-In-Itself, nora helmer, and Et dukkehjem
Published in "The Asian Age," Sep. 17, 2018
Research Interests: Philosophy, Existential Psychology, Humanistic-Existential, Jean Paul Sartre, 19th and 20th-century European philosophy, and 13 moreSartre, Existentialism, Existentialist Philosophy, Collectivism & Individualism, Existentialism and Literature, Ethics, Philosophy, Existentialism, Authenticity and Self, Existential philosophy, integrative counselling, person centred theory psycho anolytic, Existential Crisis, Existentialism in Hamlet, Being-For-Itself, Being-In-Itself, and Existential Bad-faith
Published in "The Independent," Jun. 7, 2018
Research Interests: History of Ideas, Plato, History Of Platonic Tradition, Plato's Republic, Physical World, and 15 moreModern fiction, Neo-Platonic philosophy, Plato's Theory of the Forms, Plato's Putdown of the Poets, Plato on Poetry, Platonism Vs Fictionalism, Platonic realism, Non-physical existence, Plato's Philosophy of Ideal State, Spiritual realm, The gap bewteen spiritual self image and lived reality, Plato's Theory of Forms, The Platonic Theory of Forms, Plato on Art, and Platonic Theory of Forms
Published in "The Independent," Apr. 18, 2018
Research Interests: Philosophy, Socrates, Dialectic, Socratic Teaching & Learning, Ancient Greek Philosophy, and 13 moreHistory of Western Philosophy, Knowledge, Theory of Knowledge, Virtue theory, Intellectual, Socratic Philosophy, History of Development, History of Philosophy, Representations of Socrates, Teleological Thinking, Socratic elenchus, The Socratic Method, and the Socratic teleological conception of things
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This study examines gender and complexion as biological identities of human beings and shows how these two biological identities conflict with humanism. Human beings have no control over being male or female as well as having different... more
This study examines gender and complexion as biological identities of human beings and shows how these two biological identities conflict with humanism. Human beings have no control over being male or female as well as having different skin tones, which help to distinguish one from another. With time, gender and complexion have become strong human identities, which often influence individuals to think, talk, decide, and act making them conscious of their different gender and complexion-based identities and unconscious about humanism: the system that unites the human world rejecting all gender and colour based identities. Through textual analysis, I would like to examine gender and complexion based human identities to establish that the essences of these two biological identities differ from the humanistic philosophy. In this study, gender and complexion based identities are examined to show that gender and colour based discriminations between human beings are the outcome of the existing influence of biological identities. Humanism is shown as a system, which can overcome the problems created by gender-based and complexion-based identities.
