Enforcement of Masculinity in Rabi Thapa’s Nothing to Declare
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2016
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Central Department of English
Abstract
This research looks into Rabi Thapa’s story collectionNothing toDeclareand
argues that masculinity is a social construct and it is enforced on male charactersfrom
the very young age. Almost all the characters in the story collection are maleson the
one hand and on the other side female characters are not given appropriate role.
Nothing to Declarecenters on the experience of Nepalimiddle class youthsin and
around the capital. They follow a loose chronological progression, starting with
initiation where a young boy is deeply embarrassed by the rituals of an initiation
ceremony, moving through to boarding school experience in Angles, to college,
movingaboard and running, to exploring an arranged marriage.The masculinity of
contemporary middle-class youths seems to be constructed at a middle space between
tradition and modernity, by the new modes of consumption, and by a desire togoto
otherforeign locations.
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Masculinity, english literature