Contents:

• Globalization, Democracy and English Studies
• Capitalism, "Hybrid Wars" and Confiscated Narratives:The Classico-Postmodernist Imperialism of Our Time
• The Role of Sisterhood Penitentiaries in the Reclamation of FallenWomen in Nineteenth- Century Britain
• The Romance and Reconstruction of National Identity in The Shadow Lines
• History as Aesthetics in the African Novel: a Reading of Kane's Ambiguous Adventure
• Residual Cultural Imperialism in Primary Textbooks in Bangladesh: a critique of the English for Today textbooks
• Investing in the Culture Industry to Enhance Economic Growth in West Africa