Vol. 2, No. 1 (December 2021)

Note from the Editor-in-Chief

It is an honour and a privilege to present to you the first issue of the journal Palimpsest - East Delta University Journal of English Studies.  This is a peer-reviewed journal with a distinguished Editorial Board and Advisory Board of academicians drawn from all over the world.  The journal hopes to showcase the work of both established scholars and young researchers.  In the first issue we have a wide variety of writings.  We have an article on transimperial negotiations and cultural anxieties in the sensation novel and the adventure story by Professor Robert McParland of Felician University, USA, an article on the reversal of stereotypes in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple by Morshedul Arifin and Shah Ahmed of East Delta University, two articles on English Language Teaching, the first by Jimalee Sowell who is pursuing her PhD at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA, the second by Akteruzzaman and Javed Anwer of East Delta University, besides a book review.  We hope our readers will enjoy this intellectual feast.  Please continue to send us your essays so that Palimpsest can become one of the leading journals in the field of English Studies in the sub-continent.
Dr Shormishtha Panja, Professor of English, University of Delhi, India

Selected Titles for this Issue

Research Article

1. Transimperial Negotiations and Cultural Anxieties from the Sensation Novel to the Adventure Story

Author(s): Dr Robert McParland, Professor of English, Felician University, Rutherford, New Jersey, USA

2. Reversal of Stereotypes in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple: God, Gender, Narrative and Sexuality

Author(s): Morshedul Arifin, Lecturer, Department of English, East Delta University, Bangladesh and Shah Ahmed, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of English, East Delta University, Bangladesh

3. To Teach or Not to Teach the Five-paragraph Essay?

Author(s): Jimalee Sowell, PhD Candidate, Composition and Applied Linguistics, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA

4. English-only Instruction in Tertiary-level L2 Writing: An Exploratory Study with Translingualism

Author(s): Md. Akteruzzaman, Assistant Professor, Department of English, East Delta University, Bangladesh and S. M. Javed Anwar, Lecturer, Department of English, East Delta University, Bangladesh

Book Review

5. Bashabi Fraser’s Rabindranath Tagore: A Critical Lives Series by Reaktion Books, 2019

Author(s): Usha Kishore, PhD Candidate, Edinburgh Napier University