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Item Cultural Hybridity in the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano(Central Departmental of English, 2019) Roy, Amit KumarThis thesis examines cultural hybridity in The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano. Equiano was born around 1745 in Africa into the Eboe tribe in what is presently Nigeria. At the age of 11, he was captured and sold among other native Africans until, like many before him, he was sold to European slavers. Although he was born and raised in Africa, Equiano became a British by acculturation and choice. This binary opposition places him into his tenuous identity as the Afro-Britain. Not only must Equano come to terms with who he is, he must also learn to navigate this neither-both identity. Certainly, his choice to accept his new cultural identity as a British helps him deal with the anxieties of his hybridity. As the novel raises racial issues but with the sense of ambivalence, cultural analytical approach has been used for examining and analyzing cultural hybridity. By using one of the focal points of Homi K. Bhabha’s The Location of Culture as a conduit, I have examined Equiqno as neither the singular African nor Briton. He comes to be viewed, instead, as inhabiting an interstitial landscape caught between identities to which he can never fully partake-one from which he profits nevertheless.Item English Code Mixing in China Harayeko Manchhe(Faculty of Education, Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, 2016) Niraula, DraupadaThe researcher in this thesis has made an effort to find out the English expressions used in the book “China Harayeko Manchhe” and also to analyze the language of English code mixing in terms of different linguistic criteria. Using observation as the main tool for data collection, a descriptive survey was carried out to the book China Harayeko Manchhe in which all the mixed English expressions were used as the sample of population. The non-random purposive sampling procedure was adopted for the study. With the mixing of 569 English expressions in the book, the study depicted that English code mixing is a natural and regular phenomenon in Nepali language and literature. And the noun in word level was found as the most frequently used level of expression in Nepali discourse. This research is mainly composed of five chapters. Every chapter consists of necessary headings and sub-headings. The first chapter is 'Introduction'. It consists of background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study, operational definition of the key terms.Chapter two deals with review of related literature and conceptual framework‟. Under this chapter,reviews of theoretical and empirical research, the implication of the review of the study and conceptual framework have been incorporated.Chapter three reports the methods and procedures of the study. Under this heading, design and method of the study, populationsample and sampling strategy, study area field, data collection tool and technique, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation procedure have been described. The fourth chapter analyzes and interprets the results. In this chapter, theanalysis of data and interpretation of results have been described and also the summary of findings have been generalized in the similar other Nepali contexts.Chapter five consists of conclusions and recommendation of the research.Recommendation in this chapter has been further divided into three categories policy related; practice related and further research related recommendations. Besides main chapter, the supportive materials such as references, list of table, list of charts, abbreviation have been incorporated along with the four different chapters of appendix.Item Fictionality of Nabokov's Autobiography Speak,Memory(Central Department of English, 2012) Bohara, SitaramThis research attempts to prove that the work, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited by Russian American writer Vladimir Nabokov straddles, both autobiography and fiction although it is especially an autobiography. It is written from the perspective of 'first person narrator, ‘I'. Nabokov presents his personal description through this work. He has also written about his family members and other factual historical events. In the same way, we can find fictional elements in his text on the ground of memory, forgetfulness, public and private memory, photographs used in the text and his description of ancestors. I have tried to show the interrelatedness by using the methodological tool from Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir's book Borderlines and Linda Anderson's book Autobiography, which deal with intersections of autobiography and fiction.Item GaoXingjian's Soul Mountain: Autobiographical Overtone(Department of English, 2021-03) Rajchal, SulochanaThis research entitled Xingjian’s Soul Mountain:Autobiographical Overtone depicts the story of a wandering man himself. It merges his past and present and thus lends an autobiographical overtone. It includes personal typicality, spiritual reality, and objective truth and makes the novel a historical autobiography. It reveals the intertwining aspects of physical environment. The novel accordingly analyzes how literature can provoke environmental reflection by expanding preconceived understandings of the non-human environment as a dimension of personal and communal sense of place.Xingjian, in the novel, presents the problems faced by himself. He records his own past, and society of China because his aim is to expose his own reality.Item Identity and Memory in Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit(Department of English, 2017) Basnet, SamjhanaThis thesis explores how Winterson forms her lesbian Identity through Memory. Autobiography of Winterson’sOranges Are Not the Only Fruithas given original name for the protagonist ‘Jeanette’ and through Jeanette, Winterson retells her story. Jeanette is an adopted daughter in fundamentalist Christian family. Jeanette’s mother wants to make her servant of God. She has faced many problems regarding her lesbian identity at home, at church as well as in society too. Here, by the help of her memory, Winterson reconstructs her identity. Thus, the purpose of this study is to understand the relation between memory and identity.In order to justify the claim of the researcher, this research movilizes the theoretical insight of Sidonie and Smith and Julia Watson’sReading Autobiography.Item Illusion of Agency in Benazir Bhutto’s Daughter of the East: An Autobiography(Central Department of English, 2019) Thapa, MumayaNot AvailableItem Memory as a Constitutive of Identity in Rookmangud Katawal's My Story(Department of English, 2019) Nepal, Rom NathThis research paper delves into the autobiography of the Former Chief of Army Staff of Nepal, Rookmangud Katawal’s My Story, with the special attention to his memory which eventually creates his identity evident in the way he uses language to describe his past, the prioritization of some incidents, deletion of some important incidents and the politicization of the past history of the autobiographer. This paper uses Politics of Memory, the theoretical text developed by Joanne Rappaport to find out how the writer uses his past in the present context to create his identity from Royal-made person to Self-made devoted and patriotic Army. This paper especially highlights the use of language, narrative technique, inclusion and deletion of the events, selective remembering and application of his past in the present scenario to dismantle his previous identity as an adopted son of the King Mahendra and creates his new identity as one of the patriotic person in current republican context of Nepal. This examination of autobiographical technique of remembering the past with present socio-political circumstances leads to a finding that this text works as a tool reestablish his individual identity--not bestowed by the Royal family but on of his own. In this way, this paper helps the readers in understanding the hidden politics of remembering the past of the General Katawal and his politics behind writing an autobiography.Item Mounteering: A Space for Cultural Identify in Jamling Tenzing Norgay's Touching My Father's Soul(Central Department of English, 2013) Shrestha, Sanjib LalThis research “Mountaineering: A Space for Cultural Identity in Jamling Tenzing Norgay’s Touching My Father's Soul” discovers the cultural identity and its practices of Sherpas. The central motive of this research is to show the celebration of Sherpas root or indigenous culture in the genre of autobiography. Jamling, as an autobiographer and a representative of Sherpa Culture, highlights the unique identity of Sherpas and Nepalese mountain. This thesis explores how the protagonist of the autobiography finds his identity in mountain climbing that his father, Tenjing Norge Sherpa also had done as the first man to atop the Everest. The Sherpas basic identity lies in their culture which is rooted in mountain life style, mountaineering, worship of mountains as gods and celebration of Buddhist mode of life. Thus, the research exposes that mountaineering is not only a profession of Sherpa but also a space for constructing and promoting their cultural identity.Item The Personal as Public: An Autobiographical Perspective on Gandhi’s The Story of my Experiments with Truth(Department of English, 2019) Bist, Prakash SinghThis research examines Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth and unravels the instances of Gandhi’s personal and public life that are significant parts of public history. For this, this paper uses Sidonie Smith and Linda Anderson’s theories of autobiography in order to scrutinize the life of Gandhi and associate his important instances to the public history. This association thus leads to the finding that Gandhi’s life determines and shapes the history of India and Pakistan. Therefore this paper claims that the autobiography of Gandhi is less of his autobiography but more of a historical document resembling Indo-Pak history at many instances. Such a finding leads to a result that contrasts the normal expectations of an autobiography that it explains an individual’s life and enables the readers to understand that even an autobiographical text can parallel public history in carrying intra and international facts.Item Politics of Agency in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: An Autobiography(Central Department of English, 2018) Awasthi, Prabeen KumarNot AvailableItem Politics of Agency in Maya Angelou‟s The Heart of a Woman: An Autobiography(Department of English, 2021) Pant, Madan RajThis research aims to illustrate the politics of agency in Maya Angelou’s The Heart of a Woman. Maya Angelou’s autobiography explores how an African-American woman claims her agency amidst the white dominated American society. Maya Angelou faces discrimination in terms of class, culture, ethnicity and prejudice. Despite the discrimination, in terms of race, gender, class and cultural prejudices, Angelou asserts her voice against all sort of mistreatment towards her. This research is done under the theoretical light of Garnett’s idea of “Agency and Inner Freedom”, Gramsci’s concept of “The Formation of Intellectual” and Kathryn Abram’s notion of self-definition and self-direction. Angelou in her autobiography shows the pathetic condition of African American women in American society. She gives agency to present the sufferings of the African Americans in America especially black women who are trapped in the social and cultural barriers by white Americans. She has also challenged white’s illiterate behavior and injustice in white dominated society is her politics of agency. It also studies the way they became successful to change themselves from victims of racism into self-dignified women capable of responding to injustice and exploitation. Maya Angelou uses writing as a vehicle to express African- American’s voice against the prejudice of whites in America. Key words: Autobiography, Agency, Inner freedom, Prejudice, self-direction, self- definition, intellectual.Item Politics of Memory and Experience in Washington’s Up From Slavery: An Autobiography(Department of English, 2018) Chaudhary, Pushpa KumariThe present thesis entitled“Politics of Memory and Experience in Washington's Up From Slavery: An Autobiography,"examines the transformation of a slave into a master of Tuskegee Institution. The narrative reflects how an oppressed, marginalized slave gains the desire of obtaining the meaning of life and existence of black race. The narrator undergoes many challenges who dares to combat with his predicament to make new perception about black people.He dedicates his entire life in the service of black race in order to make better life of his own people and community.This paper shatters the perception of whites with positive traits about black peopleandprovidesa positive note to those people who believe in strong will power and determinationto reach in one’s destination. His technique ofusing memory and experience succeeds him to show as a conqueror of his artificial fate. The narrator’s determination assists him to be an important personality in not only history of America but history of whole United States.Item Politics of Memory in Waris Dirie's Desert Flower(Department of English, 2017) Kunwar, RajuThis research paper investigates politics of memory in Waris Dirie's autobiography Desert Flower (1998). As an autobiography, by a Somali Muslim nomadic writer and a super model, actress, as well as a human right activist, it recounts private ‘self’ of the author, experiences and thoughts, struggles and obstacles, physical and mental trauma and tortures being an ignorant Muslim illiterate girl, precisely the daughter of a nomad family. The researcher, here ponders into why Waris Dirie, the author, feels important to explore her ‘self’ through the script-the autobiographical act, and for that draws theoretical insights of writing autobiography on ‘politics of memory’ from Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson’s Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narrative, Anne Whitehead’s Memory: The New Critical Idiom, Avishai Margalit's ideas on 'shared memory' from the text, The Ethics of Memory. This research finally concludes that the politics behind writing this autobiography is to empower and inspire women and young girls destined to face traditional but a brutal patriarchal subordinating practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the African Muslim communalities and countries like Somalia, Ethiopia and the likes with the depiction of her successful life story as she is now a super model and a special ambassador of UNO for human rights. Moreover, identity construction as a prime purpose of life writing, she also creates her identity as a rebellious, courageous female and later as a social worker, human right activist, a super model, at the same time, FGM victimized nomad girl, a house maid and worker at McDonald in England.Item Reading Against The Grain: Love and Sexulaity in John Donne’s Poems(Department of English, 2006) Gautam, MahendraThough spirituality and sexuality are generally understood as the binary oppositions, John Donne, in his poetry, presents spirituality and sexuality as complementary phenomenon. The concept of binaries about sexuality and spirituality is merely a social construct. Without the blend between spirituality and sexuality, no love, as his poems prove,is possible. In all, Donne’s representation of spirituality and sexuality as complementary phenomenon goes against the contemporary grain.Item Representation of the Early Eighteenth American Society in Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography(Department of English, 2018) K. C., Khim BahadurBenjamin Franklin’s Autobiography is about the personal interests, activities, events and his works that he completed in his different time period and simultaneously these characteristics represent the contemporary American society. He introduces the major hardships and difficulties in the narrative as a personal voice but he becomes a representative to tell about the voice of many American people. His feelings of nationality, economic development, stable political system and good manners are not merely his personal voices rather this was voice of contemporary American citizens. Although, the narrative begins by addressing to his own son, he intends to tell a true history of contemporary American society to his audience. All the descriptions of Franklin in this Autobiography as personal events, they represent the contemporary circumstances of America. Therefore, Franklin’s personal narrative embodies the eighteenth century American society.Item Techniques and Gaps in Translation of Cultural Terms: A Case of Autobiography Jeeban Kada ki Phool(Department of English Education, 2019) Angdembe, KaushilaThe study work entitled Techniques and Gaps in Translation of cultural Terms: A case of autobiography Jeeban Kada ki Phool was an attempt to identify the Nepali cultural terms of the autobiography to find out the techniques employed in the translation process of these terms in the TL Text and to point out gaps created in the process of translating the text from SL to TL text. This study was carried out by adopting the survay reaearch design. Data were collected from the secondary source autobiography of both the versions (Nepali and English) by using purposive non-random sampling procedure. Data were analyzed and interpreted descriptively. For the study, I selected 200 cultural terms from source text. Those terms were categorized into five categories like: ecology, man-made culture, social culture, religious culture and conceptual terms for example: godabari, kitab, polta, dashain, dhrap etc. Finding of the study shows that there were nine different translation techniques were found to have been employed to translate the text from SL into TL text. They are literal translation, borrowing, substitution, definition, elaboration, claque, deletion, blending and sense translation. Among the different techniques literal translation technique was the most frequently used (i.e. 37%) and claque and blending (i.e. 3%) techniques were used the least technique. This study consist five chapters. The first chapter deals with background of the study, statement of the problem, objective of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definition of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of the theoretical and empirical literature, implication of the review of the study and conceptual framework of the study. The thirds chapter deals with design and methods of study, population, sample and sampling, strategies, data collection tool and techniques, source of data, data collection procedure, data analysis and interpretation and ethical consideration. Fourth chapter present the analysis and interpretation of the data. Similarly, fifth chapter includes the findings, conclusion and recommendation of the study. This chapter is followed by the references and appendicesItem Transformation of Self in Ani Choying Drolma’s Singing for Freedom(Department of English, 2021) Malla, BandanaThe research entitled “Transformation of Self in Ani Choying Drolma’s Singing for Freedom”illustrates autobiographical subjectivity and transformation. On the fore ground of its forms, functions,and relation with narratives of Drolma, it investigateses sence and constitutive process of identity in this text.This paper, however,digs out the process of transformation and autobiographical self. Drolma narrates a model of identity, discursive and in tersectional identity and its heterony mousnature through autobiographical tools. Drolma’s identities revolve around historical, cultural, ethnic,ideological formation, consumption and transformation. Similarly, her identities are casted through selected events, experiences and memories. She attempts to assumeidentity to interrogate on patriarchal society but fails to carry fixed identity. Her identities are discursive, relational, contextual, mediated, and interest based. So, identity isanever changing process and it is a matter of formation,transformation over different sectors through lens of public identity. Keywords: autobiography, identity, memory, discursive, transformation This research concentrates on the issue of the transformation of self in Ani Choying Drolma’s Singing for Freedom.It presents staging life in written form through the ground of experience that reflects the identity of the life narrator. One’s life is connected to multiple other subjects such as identity, society, and so on. Besides, this research focuses on the way how innocent women can buildup their public identity rejecting the imposed identity given by patriarchal society. In common discourse, the term ‘self’ often refers to a warm sense or a warm feeling that something is about 'me' or about 'us'.Reflecting on oneself is both aItem Writing the Nation into the Self: Blend of Subjectivity and Nation's Identity in Kalam's Wings of Fire(Department of English, 2021) Sanjal, ShankarNot available