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Item Critique of Western Feminism: A Study of Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World(Faculty of English, 2012) Aryal, MadhavIn The Holder of the World, Bharati Mukherjee presents the general predicaments of Indian women under British colonial patriarchal India through the firsthand experience of her western female protagonist Hannah Easton. Since the colonized women suffer double marginalization: political and gender, the patriarchal social norms and colonial politics that undermine women are presented as the major causes of double marginality of women in India. Mukherjee critiques western brand of monolithic and reductive notion of feminism which homogenized all women of the globe regardless of their cultural, political, and locationalaspects. Likewise, British colonialism that dominates both men and women in India and suppresses their rights is explored as the major cause of domination and exploitation of Indian women. For the liberation from colonial and cultural domination of Indian women, male-female solidarity is called in the fiction. For this solidarity, men should respect women’s freedom rights and provide them with equal opportunity welcoming all sorts of positive changes in the dominating patriarchal norms. Mukherjee implies that through the solidarity of both men and women only women should realize their potential and empower themselves for the development of strong and peaceful society. Therefore, solidarity and reconciliation between males and females is essential unlike male-female antagonism in western feminism.Item Cultural Ambivalence in R.K. Narayan's The Bachelor of Arts(Department of English, 2007) Bhusal, MahendraR.K Narayan's The Bachelor of Arts(1937) portrays a typical Indian youth of 1930s,when British colonialism was at its peak. Brought up in India with English education,Chandran is a colonial subject torn between two cultures. In-between fascination and rejection of both cultures, his subject is constructed amidst the cultural, socio-economical and political power play of both British and Indian institutions active at that time and fluctuates in ambivalence both within and without.Item Post-Colonial Social Narrative in Achebe’sThings Fall Apart(Department of English, 2007) Devkota, Posh RajThe main objective of the dissertation is to expose Igbo society and downfall of its cultural spirit because of British colonialism and its hegemony exercised through church-missionary, hospital, school and court. The legacy of orientalism and supremacy of white culture transformed the harmonious Igbo society into chaos and devastation where the protagonist's son deserts his father and the brothers mock at the sense of brotherhood by converting into Christianity. Consequently, the rich cultural heritage collapses despite constant resistance and sacrifice of a true lover of native culture. Post-colonial social narrative, a narration of society, postulates the issues of presentation, expression and evocation of a community which is preliminarily structured by a number of cultural ethos and polluted bycolonial force eventually. Things Fall Apartserves the role of literature as a mirror of society with the visualizations of multifarious cultural norms and values such as celebration of festival, 'A Week of Peace,' wrestling match and etc.