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Item Black Consciousness in Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar(Department of English, 2010) Pujara, ShankarThis research examines the idea of Black consciousness in Alice Walker’s The Temple of My Familiar. Most of the events of the novel revolve around the issue of Black consciousness of the characters. This Black consciousness inspires them to resist white privilege and redefine the black world by using their perspectives. So, this thesis argues that Black consciousness, which comes through the memorization of ancient myth, rituals, art and legend, enables the Black people to resist all white privilege and prejudice that empower them culturally and spiritually.Item Failure of Resistance in Richard Wright's Black Boy(Department of English, 2010) Karki, Durga BahadurThe discourse of the white supremacy and the painful growing up of the protagonist Richard are forgrounded in the Novel Black Boy in the setting of American South. Racial violence frequently challenges the protagonist and his defiance to the white-hegemony is doomed to failure as he fails to channel the racial hatred of Black community to liberate the community as a whole. He escapes from the South to North as defeated and hence, asserts the invincibility of the white domination.Item Johnson Towards the Freedom of Afro-Americans in Middle Passage(Department of English, 2007) Gnawali, DibakarCharles Johnson'sMiddle Passageis a classical slave narrative which reveals the story of Allmuseries on the ship. Allmuseri is a minor community of blacks in America who are in search of their culture, root, identity and freedom from whites' influences. Afro-Americans search their identity and freedom through their history. Rutherford Calhoun's journey makes him successful to liberate all the blacks from the slavery and domination of whites. By reminding their inspiring history, Johnson wants to show a possibility of theirfreedom from the whites influences and cultural intervention in America.