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Item An Attempt to Survive: Existential Predicaments in The Good Earth(Department of English, 2007) Rai, PrakashNot availableItem Carol’s Magnificent Vision in Mainstreet(Department of English, 2009) Sah, Ram PadathLewis Clair’s Main street moves around the protagonist Carol’s visions which are supremely magnificent and outstanding. Her arrival to the new place triggers her to attempt for bettering the Gopher Prairie by persuading the villagers. But the public are much prejudiced and male-centric. Men have always plotted against her and her visions which are drastic. This customary population cannot tolerate the sight of the course she has directed and this is what the reason her goal remains suspended. She consequently loses hopes and ultimately realizes that men are accountable for her crush. Hence she is much serious and probing. She can winnow between rice and pieces of stone. She sees through the male mentality which is preoccupied with the quandary that women are inferior and incompetent of launching drastic changes in the society.Carol is much world-shattering in the sense that she is devoted to keep on combating for betterment and prosperity for the town Gopher Prairie. Even her husband thinks that she is poignant and does not have cogent power. Therefore he soothes her and tries to mollify her repulsive state. She lives an captivated life, and seems as cool and simple as an apple.Item Donatello the Faun:Constructing a Dark Other inThe Marble Faun(Department of English, 2008) Ghimire, AnjuHawthorne’sFaunstands as a racially and culturally hybrid figure.The Marble Faunis compared to an Italian artist with the image of Faun, which is equivalentto Pan God in pagan culture.Hawthorne encodes American construct of race.On one hand, he representsthewhiteimperialist, who shows cognizance ofthe power ofthegod of his kind.Atthesame time, however,thehalf-goat status of the faunmakesthecreature half Other.The faun is the Other,its dark desires predominant, striving to overcome and choke out and emerge as the Other. This thesis explores why the novelist compares Donatello with the image of Pan and why he represents him as a pack of sins, comparable in some ways to post-lapsarian Adam.Item Magic Realism in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor(Department of English, 2008) Acharya, MukundaThe Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor is based on the heroic deeds of Luis Alejandro Velasco, who endured the sharks, escaped the whales, survived the harsh sun and remained afloat for ten days, without food and water in the middle of the ocean. This real incident is no less than the magical fantasy, which glorifies the The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor beyond the imagination and capacity of a mortal being. It thereby creates pure fantasy blended with realism, and magical realism. Seemingly realistic events blended with magical. However, the irony behind this heroism is that the unexpected survival of Velasco became unbearable to the authorities. They entrapped him in such circumstances that he is forced to hide for his life. Therefore, The Story of Shipwrecked Sailor is a rare combination of suspense and thrill, blended with elements of courage and zeal for life; altogether and a man’s struggle against the nature and its harshness for life.Item Parody of Christian Allegory in Melville's Pierre or, the Ambiguities(2009) Gautam, RajivThe present research is based on Herman Melville's novel Pierre or, the Ambiguities to see how Melville has parodied Christian allegory. The novel focuses the relationship between father and son where both characters are identically named. This sort of relationship between father and son implies that of God and Adam but it becomes problematic when son knows that the father had long ago seduced and abandoned an innocent young woman. The novel also presents the similarities of different Christian texts, like Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante's Divine Comedy as well as Inferno, as the example to prove it as an allegorical text, and at the same time it subverts the ideas of those texts. As a result, it creates humour with the idea that if there is God and if He is the source of all then He must be the primary source of evil.Item Racial Archetypes in Toni Morrison's A Mercy(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016) Aryal, RameshworThe experiences and sufferings that the characters undergo in Toni Morrison's A Mercy assert Carl Gustav Jung‘s idea that the struggle to forget one‘s past is fruitless, and that past had an enormous impact on (black) person‘s life. The characters chose the right way to survive: they experienced the painful process of rememory of their archetypes of complicated and distorted history. The researcher examines black individual‘s quest for identity by demonstrating that past, slavery and stereotypes shaped and determined black individual‘s perception of his/her black identity in A Mercy. This research further argues that Morrison places components of racial archetypes from history of slavery and African-American literature-- in wider American context: by revisiting African American history she revisits whole American history to reveal the importance of the presence of blackness and strong ties between present and past.Item Search for Self in Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise(Department of English, 2007) Bhandari, Rishi PrasadThe present research work is a critical study of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise from existential perspective. This work basically focuses on Amory's struggle, as well as others like Beatric, Clara, Rosalind etc. for true self by the will and effort Beatric, disregarding traditional norms, takes a great decision to give bequathment for Church and Rosalind, using our conscience of freedom, chooses Dawson Ryder to marry, though she plays the game of love with Amory. Clara, as Rosalind, plays the same game with Amory but she does not submiss her true self in the hand of any man and stay alone which is not for other reasons but for to gain her own self. On the other hand, Amory tastes luxurious and travel life in the beginning and starts his struggles from St. Pre-School which hurls him to drunkard life for his identity that he cannot gain until the end of this novel. At last, therefore, he sets out towards Princeton further to seek his existential self.Item Silence as a Means of Resistancein The Woman Warrior and Pangs of Love(Department of English, 2011) Neupane, Keshab PrasadAn issue of restrictive stereotypes based on white hegemonic models is all pervasive in Chinese American literature.Many Chinese American writers seek to propose alternative models to counter such stereotypical concepts associated to the margin. It also challenges restrictive white hegemonic heterosexual masculine types that deem Chinese and Asian American men alike as emasculate and effeminate.The white hegemonic masculine types, which are in theory centered in homophobia and in opposition to femininity, in turn further oppressed Chinese American women who are historically suppressed into inferior status. Laws prohibited women from entering America which resulted in the homosocial male community and, in return, further manifest the emasculated and effeminate stereotypes of Chinese American men. Interrelated and inter-manifesting layers of complexity contributing to Chinese American stereotypes and oppression are impossible to negotiate with frequently cited singular alternatives, such as “hyper masculine” masculine models. The Chinese American characters in these texts under study namely,The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston and Pangs of Love by David Wong Louie, both female and male, elicit such complex layers of oppression.The research makes the study of the characters in relation to multiple and imposed silences, including self-imposed silence, all of which maybe seen in relation to acts of resistance and a potentiality for plurality that allows at best for the reconfiguration of strict gender definitions or self-invention.Item Transcultural hospitality in postcolonial diasporic 9/11 novels(Faculty of English, 2023) Panthi, Dadhi RamPostcolonial diasporic novels on the subject of 9/11 have come up in response to the novels on the events of September 11, 2001 by the mainstream white American writers. Instead of addressing the trauma of the victims, the white American writers, as the review of the critical responses to their literature (in chapter 2) shows, engage in profiling Muslims and other immigrants as terrorists. Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), Hari Kunzru’s Transmission (2004), Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown (2005) and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) respond to the prose of profiling them through an emphasis on transcultural hospitality. This research critically engages with postcolonial response to 9/11. The postcolonial diasporic novels present a counter-discourse to the profiling of Muslims as terrorists. This study assumes that a new post-9/11 ethics, which emphasizes on transcultural hospitality, comes out as an anti-dote to the discourse of Muslims profiling. In other words, the dissertation has attempted to explore how postcolonial, diasporic 9/11 novels embrace the ethics of transculturalism. Such ethics in the selected novels, as the dissertation shows, comes out as a striking counter to the discourse of cultural trauma in the mainstream American fictional representations of 9/11. However, cultural trauma is not the focus of this research. Discussion of cultural trauma is limited to the review of the mainstream writings on 9/11. The dissertation incorporates various scholarly reviews made on 9/11 writings, and also on trauma and violence based on 9/11 literature. The objectives are threefold: first to show, through the review of literature, how us versus them binary has been found to have contaminated 9/11 trauma discourse in the mainstream American literature; second to explore, through comprehensive analysis of the aforesaid novels, how South Asian diasporic postcolonial novels subvert the language of otherness; and third to argue that these texts, instead, stress on transcultural living and hospitality to the other. The dissertation has been organized in eight chapters. While the first chapter introduces issues, areas of the research in order to build up major argument and design of the dissertation; the second chapter surveys of previous scholarships based on the review of the literature on 9/11. And the third chapter analyzes relevant theories essential for textual analysis. The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh chapters focus on textual analysis of Ali’s Brick Lane, Kunzru’s Transmission, Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown, and Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist respectively. Finally, the eighth chapter incorporates four novels’ reflection placing the selected novels in reverse order first. Second, it highlights significance of proven facts in normal order. Third, it connects primary texts with methodology placing primary texts again in reverse order. Fourth, it specifies the findings based on set objectives. Fifth, it focuses on contribution to new knowledge along with research gap and also specifies limitation, and sixth, it ends with recommendations for further research. An application of the theoretical framework of transcultural hospitality to the above novels reveal their understanding of shared intimacy, new world order of glocalization, and end of both racial stereotyping and fakeness. Through these novels, these four writers condemn conditional hospitality of the westerners, uncanny exposition of the so-called globalism, and multiculturalism. They also expose western world’s fakeness and its transmission through media, vulnerable positioning of autoimmunity and deep-seated racism