A Postcolonial Feminist Approach to Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women

Postcolonial feminism, also known as Third World Feminism, is a form of feminism which is concerned with the representation of women in the countries that were once under the colonial rule of Britain. Postcolonial feminists study the way colonialism conditioned the lives of the third world women who experience the ‘double colonization’ in terms of both race and gender. The Book of Night Women (2009) is a novel by a Jamaican novelist Marlon James. The novel, a slave narrative, also represents the condition of black women under slavery and their struggle to resist the colonial oppression in terms of race, gender, sexuality, etc. James here very realistically depicts the relationship between the slaves and slave owners, and colonized and colonizers. The black women in the novel also witness the double colonization. Therefore, the paper attempts to explore the ways black women are being oppressed in the system of colonization which blends all types of oppressions such as race, gender, sexuality, class, etc to control and dominate them. The focus shall be also to explore their resistance against slavery and patriarchy

Theme of Identity: A Study of Andrea Levy’s The Long Song

The Long Song (2010) is a contemporary Caribbean neo-slave narrative written by Andrea Levy.  The novel revisits the period of slavery in the early nineteenth century Jamaica depicting the experiences of a slave girl, July at Amity - a sugarcane plantation in Jamaica.  Written in the background of a famous Jamaican slave rebellion, the Baptist War erupted in 1831, the abolition of slavery in 1833 and its aftermath, the novel details the life of the slaves on Jamaican plantations before and after the period of emancipation. Replete with the theme of identity, the novel explores the ethnic and cultural backgrounds of the characters on the plantations where the British class system is largely in vogue. Thus, the paper shall explore the identity of the slaves in the Caribbean which is greatly affected by the British social hierarchy. It shall also focus on how the British class system begins to lose its potential and importance in Jamaica after the Baptist War

Effect of Materials Content on Dimensional Stability, Nano Roughness and Interfaced Morphology for Virgin or Recycled Polypropylene Based Wood Composites

The compositions of mango wood-polypropylene composites (WPCs) are formulated, with different compositions of virgin polypropylene (PP) or recycled PP, mango wood waste and a coupling agent. The compositions are fabricated via melt extrusion compounding pursued by injection hot molding. The tests of the prepared compositions are carried out for, water absorption, thickness swelling, surface properties at a nano-scale and interfaced morphology. Comparative study of WPCs composition has done on respective properties. All processing variable conditions are constant for different compositions. The recycled PP based wood composites with or without the coupling agent possessed superior properties in comparison to virgin PP based composites. FESEM images show that coupled composite is having the better bonding strength and smoothness along with a higher dimensional stability in comparison to none coupled composite. Future endeavor should be focused on optimizing the composition of reinforcement wood and recycled plastics matrix according to intended application. The quality of WPCs can also be improved with the co-ordination of latest development in technology and processing technique relevant to them. WPCs study supports “turning waste into something useful”. This provides the mileage in price performance ratio and also the product’s environmental footprints to be adjusted to suit the products application

Potential, Challenges, and Application for Wood–Plastic Composite Fabricated with Several Additives

The expeditious transformation of the atmosphere and economy is pushing researchers from various fields to do more by using a lesser amount of resources. Especially, in the field of forest-based resources, such as the utilization of wood resources for different utility purposes in wood industries. It is meant to say that, the wood estate should be used as an efficient means or expedient. It is also the necessity of world atmosphere, according to the point of view ecosystem or global warming condition. Thus, we will need to sustainably use forest-based resources as major sources of wood materials and reuse the underutilized woods and waste wood in any form. Further, it will require the reuse of the underutilized wood material and present wood waste material in an environment with the assistance of the latest and newer growing technology. In general, for improving the performance of wood-based materials, additives may be used for performing different functions, such as lubricants, pigments, colorants, anti-microbial agents, antioxidants, UV stabilizers, fire retardants agents, coupling agents, or stabilizers, in the wood industry

Kaizen or innovation? Finding a better fit for Bangladesh mobile telecommunication companies

Volume 4, Issue 1, December 201

Eco-friendly dyeing of wool and pashmina fabric using Quercus robur L. (fruit cups) dye and Salix alba L. (wood extract) mordant

Study was conducted to investigate the dyeing potential of Quercus robur L. (fruit cups) dye and Salix alba L. (wood extract) mordant on wool and pashmina fabrics. The experiment was conducted keeping in view the environmental safety by using unutilized plant materials and excluding the usage of chemical agents. The dyeing was carried out individually including and excluding mordant adopting different mordanting methods. The parameters like percent absorption, colour coordinates, colour strength (K/S), relative colour strength and colour fastness with regard to washing, light and rubbing were investigated. The results revealed higher percent absorption of mordanted samples than unmordanted samples. Colour coordinates (L*a*b*, Chroma, hue and ?E) of dyed wool and pashmina fabric exhibited satisfactory results. The colour strength (K/S) and relative colour strength of pashmina fabric recorded higher than wool fabric. The fastness properties to washing, light and rubbing showed satisfactory grades including and excluding natural mordant. However, the grades of mordanted samples were found better than unmordanted samples. The dye and mordant in isolation and in combination showed beautiful colours and shades on selected fabrics with satisfactory retention properties, hence can be utilized commercially for coloration of wool and pashmina fabrics

The comparative effectiveness of irradiation and hybridization in creating variation in barley and genetics of earliness in barley

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Generalized Rough Γ-Hyperideals in Γ-Semihypergroups

Davvaz (2008) introduced the concept of set-valued homomorphism and T-rough sets in a group. In this paper, we consider the set-valued homomorphism T on Γ-semihypergroup H to interpret the lower and upper approximations. We study the roughness of (m,n) bi-Γ-hyperideals and (m,n) quasi-Γ-hyperideals in terms of set-valued homomorphisms, which are extended notions of (m,n) bi-Γ-hyperideals and (m,n) quasi-Γ-hyperideals of Γ-semihypergroups

Generalized Fuzzy Quasi-Ideals of an Intraregular Abel-Grassmann's Groupoid

We have introduced a new nonassociative class of Abel-Grassmann's groupoid, namely, intraregular and characterized it in terms of its (∈,∈∨q)-fuzzy quasi-ideals