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Item Cultural Hybridity in Orwell’s Burmese Days(Department of English, 2013) Dahal, Tirtha PrasadThis research is the analysis of George Orwell’s novel Burmese Days to examine the cultural hybridity that is the phenomenon of the contact zone between the colonial and native values in colonial Burma during British Raj. In the novel, there are plenty of instances to highlight the ambivalent and hybrid psychological positions of the characters. Flory, a colonial timber merchant mingles with the Indian doctor Veraswami and criticizes his own colonial values. He shows ample sympathy to the native values highlighting the ambivalence and hybridity. Doctor Veraswami, on the other hand, blindly adores the European values and rates the English values as the far more superior to the native values, being a native himself. He demonstrates the considerable amount of mimicry to the colonial values as well as ambivalent and hybrid psychological positionality. Both the characters put the colonial values and authority into jeopardy with their position in-betweenness the native and the colonial values.Item Excremental post-colonial vision in V.S. Naipaul's The Suffrage of Elvira(Department of English, 2011) Sapkota, Indra PrasadIn the novel The Suffrage of Elvira, V. S. Naipaul depicts the ironic situation of the election in Trinidadian district Elvira in postcolonial situation. The people are full of doubt over the democracy and its benefits in coming days as they have never experienced the democratic situation. Their cultural values have been the admixture of the multiple other values and they lack the distinct values and they have become directionless. Such bitter ironic condition is the excremental condition that has been mocked by the writer in the novel. Mimicry is visible throughout and thus, the novel is giving the excrement the form of the words so that the excrement loses its odor. The novel, thus, has been the best example of excremental vision.