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Item Communitism in Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife(Department of English, 2010) Paudel, Dharma RajThe present thesis entitled “Communitism in Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife” invites readers to understand Native American Ojibwa cultural tradition. Erdrichtraces the cultural legacy that is passed from generation to generation. Oraltraditions, sacred metaphysics, naming tradition, use of characters of trickster are some of the characteristic features of Ojibwa heritage. Non- anthropocentric and ecologically oriented world view that focuses on community and nature continues for the Indian as a source of personal and collective energy, identity and values. The novel written from multicultural perspective helps to appreciate significant differences between Native American and Euro-American cultural traditions.The cooperative multicultural unity that Erdrich depicts leads to an enactment of respectful interdependence across cultural boundaries. Erdrich applies the bead imagery to express the idea of multicultural society and its inherent overlapping spaces and intermingling colours. The new pattern of modern society does not displace Ojibwa heritage and the past. Erdrich dramatizes a vast web of interdependence brought about by the intersection of many cultures, pasts and heritages.Native emphasizes on the importance of living in harmony with the physical and spiritual universe, a deep reverence for the land and a strong sense of community.Item Ritual as a Means of Black Solidarity in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar(Department of English, 2006) Prasai, KeshabThe Temple of My Familiaris depiction of the life of black characters form the South who constantly engage themselves in traditional myth, music, story telling and so in throughout the novel to resist the whites domination and create peaceful harmony or social solidarity and spiritual unity among the blacks. . . . the writer depicts the life of black characters from the American South who constantly engage themselves in music, storytelling, bringing mythical symbol to avoid traditional system of white domination and to assert a philosophy of social solidarity and spiritual unity among the blacks.Item Search for Identity in James McBride’s The Color of Water(Department of English, 2017) Saud, Dan BahadurJames McBride’s autobiography The Color of Water explores issues of search for identity in the form of a tribute to his white mother, as James himself is a black son. James feels a question swirling around his head about why he and his mother has different color. But finally comes to the conclusion that, the effort of his mother to raise a fatherless family in the highly uncongenial Jewish, black and white American community is praise worthy. Young James learns the color of life as the color of water and then foregrounds the painful experience his mother had to undergo. James prioritizes his mother’s identity for his to be established. Going through the issues of cultural identity, this research presents the identity crisis and feelings of alienation in the mother and son. To seek special cultural relation between characters in foreign land of America, the issues of cultural hybridity from the prominent theorist, Homi K. Bhabha, and issue of blackness by Frantz Fanon has been applied to examine the text. Finally, in this connection of relations, and struggle of living in America as being black and Jewish, James solely locates himself as the part of the great loving mother.