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Item The Construction of Blackness:Reading Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois(Department of English, 2007) Regmi, Bhagawat PrasadLangston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois in their texts revealthat there is black awarenessblack utopiain their literature. They also showno place where an African American can escape the equalities of racism.But both of themfavourtheblackness withouthesitation and any shameandresistto white supremacy.However, they create blackness in their culture, literatureandeven day to day life.Langston Hughes'sThe Negro Artists and Racial MountainandHarlemsuggest the resistance of white, supremacy and proclaims the end of racism butculture focusing African American have not yet found a model for thinking and speaking outside the frameof racist ideology. So,Hughes voicewishes the equality, a vision of racial difference. Du Bois inThe Souls of Black Folkgives expression to hisprivilegingofAfrican American blackness, the problemsblack's social degradation—Negro social consciousness. He also looks the double-consciousness or one black feels his two- ness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts two warring ideals in oneblack body and Southern African American problems.Item Recreation of History to Regain Cultural Pattern inToni Morrison'sJazz(Department of English, 2006) Bhandari, DependraThis work has tried to reveal how expressive arts like blue music or jazz have functioned as a mode and institution of intervention and, therefore, as a blue print and recourse, re–position, and re–examine African–Americans' way of life, their needs, their aspirations their history/story–in short and aesthetic tradition of their culture. This thesis has tried to explore opposition that separates art and politics, for Morrison cultural structures of injustice and oppression without jeopardizing the artfulness of her fiction. By using dislocations in time and space free indirect discourse, multiple positioned narrative voices, skeins of freighted images instead of authorial omniscience as commentary among other narrative techniques. She is able to recreate the Afro–America past. This study shows how Morrison became multivalent cultural icon who spoke truth to empower, gave voice to voiceless Afro–Americans.Jazzrepresents grief, politically situated yet not personally chosen maternal neglect and loss, the ravages of war, passionate sexual love, and female as the object of a murderous gaze. Morrison thematically establishes memory as a potential force for restoring the past. Jazzoffers alleviation from the displacement to the preservation of family and cultural memory as a source of self–definition where the loss of 'memory' reinforces the loss of 'family', 'fertility' and 'identity'.