Firdous Azim is a professor of English at BRAC University, a literary critic, and a women's rights activist.[1][2][3] She is the chairperson of the Department of English and Humanities at BRAC University.[4] She is a member of Naripokkho.[5]
Firdous Azim identifies this as the typical western observer positioning himself as an explorer who seems to ascertain the secrets of the "other" world. The woman is seen to be the repository of those secrets, made to open the secret to the explorer.
Some of this important work has already been taken up by scholars like Firdous Azim and Perween Hasan, but there is much more that needs to be done to uncoverlong forgotten Bangladeshi women writers from the rubble of oblivion.