Glocalization: Tension between Global and Local Forces in Manjushree Thapa's Tilled Earth

Abstract

Manjushree Thapa‟s “Tilled Earth” explicitly depicts the tension between the global and local forces that also coin the theme of the glocalization. It explores how the characters remain in tension and trauma. In the stories, Thapa is able to draw the picture of the recent world in which the people face different kinds of problems that are described through the use of the imaginative characters with imaginative stories. Her characters try their best either to resist or to adapt the global and local forces. But in the process of rejection and adaptation of global and local forces the characters lives are disturbed, destabilized, dismantled and torn.