Mahruba T Mowtushi
Biographic Data
| ID | 668915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahruba T Mowtushi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahruba T |
| FAMILY NAME | Mowtushi |
| SIGNATURE | MOWTUSHI M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | BRAC University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7979-9924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speak True to the People’
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
“The air we breathe, a forgotten colour”
This essay revisits the years 1961-1963 through a selection of poems written by Rajat Neogy for Transition magazine. There is an inherent tension in Neogy’s surrealism between its imaginative exposé of symbolic planes of abstract existence, and the distressing reality of post-Independent Uganda for the Asian expatriates. Avant-garde and ambitious, Transition was founded by Neogy in 1961 as an intellectually autonomous forum for East African liter…
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Africa in the Bengali literary and cinematic imagination
As part of the recent worldwide cinematographic trend in adapting children’s fantasy and adventure stories into films, this article offers critical insight into contemporary West Bengali film industry’s reworking of this trend in its 2013 cinematic adaptation of Chander Pahar (1937) by the Bengali novelist Bibhutibhusan Bandapadhyay (1894–1950). I argue that in this adaptation the filmmaker deliberately expands on the author’s original vision of …
The Urban Experience of Displacement
Dhaka has been, of late, the subject and setting of a number of graphic narratives, comic books, and street art. This essay examines how these visual texts engage with the larger networks of the cityscape of Dhaka, its people, and their stories. I offer a comparative study of three distinct graphic texts – the comic books series called Mujib (2018), Maria Litwa’s pictographic expose of the Biharis in “Welcome to the Geneva Camp” (2013), and a ser…
The Urban Experience of Displacement
Dhaka has been, of late, the subject and setting of a number of graphic narratives, comic books, and street art. This essay examines how these visual texts engage with the larger networks of the cityscape of Dhaka, its people, and their stories. I offer a comparative study of three distinct graphic texts – the comic books series called Mujib (2018), Maria Litwa’s pictographic expose of the Biharis in “Welcome to the Geneva Camp” (2013), and a ser…
Africa in the Bengali literary and cinematic imagination
As part of the recent worldwide cinematographic trend in adapting children’s fantasy and adventure stories into films, this article offers critical insight into contemporary West Bengali film industry’s reworking of this trend in its 2013 cinematic adaptation of Chander Pahar (1937) by the Bengali novelist Bibhutibhusan Bandapadhyay (1894–1950). I argue that in this adaptation the filmmaker deliberately expands on the author’s original vision of …
The Urban Experience of Displacement
Dhaka has been, of late, the subject and setting of a number of graphic narratives, comic books, and street art. This essay examines how these visual texts engage with the larger networks of the cityscape of Dhaka, its people, and their stories. I offer a comparative study of three distinct graphic texts – the comic books series called Mujib (2018), Maria Litwa’s pictographic expose of the Biharis in “Welcome to the Geneva Camp” (2013), and a ser…
Bangladesh
“The air we breathe, a forgotten colour”
This essay revisits the years 1961-1963 through a selection of poems written by Rajat Neogy for Transition magazine. There is an inherent tension in Neogy’s surrealism between its imaginative exposé of symbolic planes of abstract existence, and the distressing reality of post-Independent Uganda for the Asian expatriates. Avant-garde and ambitious, Transition was founded by Neogy in 1961 as an intellectually autonomous forum for East African liter…
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Speak True to the People’
History (8 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Bengali (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)