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Item War, Memory and Scriptotherapy in Barker’s Regeneration(Central Department of English, 2019) Poudel, GitaNot AvailableItem War, Memory and Scriptotherapy in Barker’s Regeneration(Department of English, 2019) Poudel, GitaLiterary depiction of violent historical trauma can be taken as a response against violent oppression. This study aims to explore trauma, testimony and witnessing as depicted in Pat Barker’s Regeneration (1991). This novel deals with historical atrocities of the First World War. The novelist wrote this novel from a belated position trying to understand, to comprehend and to mediate a memory which had no direct experience. The novel is framed by the intention of bearing witness as a writer and to use fictions as a means to create and transmit knowledge of genocide. The present research work makes a modest investigation into the ethical role of memorization through the means of trauma narrative in Pat Barker’s Regeneration and argues that the fictional way of memorizing the violent historical trauma of World War I. It further explores that Barker’s intention of bearing witness as a writer holds the ethical value for her fictional narratives of memory creates and transmits the knowledge of genocide. Likewise, it investigates the therapeutic elements, by bringing the insights from Julia Watson, Scriptotherapy, in the novel. It argues that Regeneration is a book that inscribes scriptotherapy and offers the possibility of healing both to the author and her audience. In doing so, the research incorporates the theoretical insights from Avishai Margalit’s The Ethics of Memory in order to strengthen the major argument. It also includes the theoretical ideas of trauma theory by Dominick LaCapra to discuss on the importance of trauma narrative as a tool for 'working through' and bearing the witness to trauma. In this way, act of memory contains the ethical responsibility that will contribute to the domain of knowledge in the field of traumatic memory.Item Women as a Metaphor for Land: Reading Nadine Gordimer's the Conservationist(Department of English, 2007) Poudel, GitaInTheConservationist, Nadine Gordimer hasrevealedthe commodification of females. Furthermore,she has also uncovered thesuppression of blackby white colonizersin the apartheid era.Untiland unless politics of any country becomesfree ofbiastowardsany group,progress isnot possible.In the case of females’freedom, each and every member of society must eliminate theirprejudicestowardswomen and shouldn’tconfinethemtotheir custom and traditiononly. Societyshouldn’tassociate themonly with abodyand sexuality.In this text,females have been treated as sexual objects to be consumed by malesand inthesimilarway the landbythe colonizers. The point being made in the text is not, however, only a feminist one.There is a conspicuous parallelism between thefemaleandthe landin the society dominated by the males and the white imperialists. The land and the womanare linked to each other in terms of their exploitation;sexual guilt functions asa surrogate for colonial guilt.