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Item Cultural Hybridity: Identity Crisis and Alienation in Ralph Ellison'sJuneteenth(Department of English, 2006) Gurung, Laxmi PrasadRalph Ellison'sJuneteenthmovesaround cultural hybridity, which incorporates identity crisis of the hybrid subject, Adam Sunraider. The father of the protagonist has no definite identity although he grows up in black culture and spends his childhood under the care of black preacher, Hickman. When Sunraider becomes young, he feels identity crisis, moves towards North and becomes a racist Senator. After his shooting, he meets with daddy Hickman and tries to rejoin back to his past culture of South with out much success. The hybrid subjectwho always suffers from a sense of identity crisis, is alienated his previous culture. This thesis tries to show how loss of sense of belonging to the past culture leads to the character's sense of alienation and identity crisis. Even negotiation cannot give total satisfaction to the alienated subject, for he cannot completely assimilate to either of the culture: the past and the present, which make their claim upon him.Item Cultural Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Racial Violence and the Formation of Afro-American Identity(2012) Gurung, Laxmi PrasadToni Morrison has explored Afro-American heritage which has intense impact on their psychology. In Post-Civil War, America, the status of the Afro-Americans started improving. They, however, carry the trauma of slavery even as their status has been improving day by day. Toni Morrison’s works capture this very trauma of slavery, which is not so much it, is cultural. Almost all her characters remember their traumatic experience which can integrate them together. Cultural trauma, in Morrison’s representation in major fictional works like Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Paradise and Sula, is meant for the formation of a new Afro-American identity out of the experience of the trauma of slavery. This dissertation explores Morrison’s treatment of the historical trauma. It concludes that Morrison’s representation is that of cultural trauma which tries to patch up the hole in the fabric of the Afro-American identity.