Browsing by Author "Bhattarai, Laxmi"
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Item Failure of Androgyny in Woolf's Orlando(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2012-10) Bhattarai, LaxmiCritics like Michael Rosenthal agree that Orlando offers a fictional ideal embodiment of the androgyny that Woolf exalts in A Room of One’s Own. However, this research argues that Woolf actually relies on stereotypical gender differences to critique the pitfalls of gender and sexual conditioning in Orlando, which reveals Woolf’s serious doubt about the potentiality of her own proposed state of androgyny. Orlando is unable to reach the ideal state of mental androgyny that Woolf exalts in A Room of One’s Own because of cultural and social conditioning. Pressures and expectations, both inner and outer, prevent Orlando from developing the androgynous mind that Woolf idealizes in A Room of One’s Own. In Orlando, Woolf does not depict an ideal androgyny but actually shows why androgyny is impossibleItem Representation of Racial Minority in Jean Sasson's Love in A Torn Land(Central Department of English, 2016) Bhattarai, LaxmiThe present dissertation makes a critical study of the Representation of racial Minority in Jean Sasson's Love in a Torn Land. This study reflects the efforts of the racial minority, Kurds to resist from the brutal act of the Saddam's regime, for their freedom as well as fundamental right. Due to the racist ideology of the Iraqi Arabs in general and government in particular, Kurds suffered a lot during 1970s-1980s. So, the heroic act of Kurds to overcome from the discrimination is the main concern of this research. From the recollection of experience of protagonist, Sasson portrays the bravery of the racial minority, the Kurds for freedom, independence and liberties. In this Kurds revolt against the cruel attacks of Saddam Hussein's up on the Kurdish fundamental right. Without being submissive they react against exploitation. The entire heroic act of racial minority reveals their awareness, consciousness, self-reliance towards social equality.