Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity

It challenges stereotypes surrounding Bangladeshi migration through seminal 20^th and 21st-century Bangladeshi novels in English. It focuses on the complexities of migratory experiences through various gender and age groups while setting the study within the English-language literary history and linguistic ethnography of Bangladesh

Umme Salma earned a PhD in Postcolonial and Other Literatures in English (focusing on Bangladeshi anglophone literature) from the School of Languages and Cultures, the University of Queensland, Australia. She was a Graduate Digital research fellow at the University of Queensland and an Honorary Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. She has published research articles and book reviews in South Asian Review, Gitanjali and Beyond, Asiatic and Transnational Literature. Salma is also a bilingual poet, writing and publishing in Bangla and English. As an early career researcher, Salma teaches literature and writing at the University of Queensland, Australia, and has dedicated her time to research and publication.