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Item Culture as a Remedy: in R. K. Narayan's The English Teacher(Department of English, 2018) Ghimire, Shalik RamR.K. Narayan's The English Teacher examines the cultural importance with the context to colonialism in India through the character Krishna, deployed in the English Teacher. An educated and culturally conscious Krishna follows western way of life. Krishna studies and teaches English in Albert Mission College run by westerners, from where, he gets material succession and fulfills material desires. When he realizes that, only the material succession is not the source of inner peace, happiness and cultural dignity. Realizing this fact Krishna abandons western life, resigning from his highly paid job at Albert Mission College and joins hands with New Children's School headmaster aiming to begin to preserve Indian culture through the new education system in India. While being lecturer at Albert Missing College Krishna experienced cultural domination by his boss Mr. Brown, for not being able to teach correct pronunciation to students. Pronouncing a word wrongly is not the big sin for Krishna but he takes this issue as a cultural hegemony of westerners over Indians. Krishna believes that the education system must be creative but it should not like swallowing and vomiting system, which he followed at Albert Mission College. After experiencing humiliation and domination from colonizers, Krishna realizes that western culture as the root cause of despair and dismay in his life as Stuart Hall believes on "culture brings change in the human situation". Ultimately, Krishna's decision to quite from Albert Mission College and join local school is returning from western culture to his original culture, which works in his life as a remedy, providing him happiness and Shanti. Key words: Cultural remedy, colonization, root culture, cultural hegemony, alienation, individualism, spiritualism, inferiority complexItem Exploration of Colonial Legacy: A Study of Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun(Department of English, 2010) Khanal, KiranThe novel Half of a Yellow Sun centers at the issue of Civil War in Nigeria during the historical context of the 1960s. The violence occurs between two ethnic groups; Hausa and Igbo due to the interference of colonial legacy. That makes the explicit linkage between the colonialism and the politicization that caused annihilation in Biafra. The legacy of colonialism is not only efficient in the form of divide-and-rule policy of whites but it is embedded within the characters, everyday lives. The result out of colonial legacy in post-independent Nigeria reinforces the Biafrans to form 'a new nation' through the conception of Eurocentric belief, i.e. nationalism. Finally, the Western neocolonial power has become successful to govern the mindset and body of characters and their sense of nationhood has become no more than paradox. The support Nigeria gets from Britain, Russia and Egypt points out their neocolonial interest in alien world. Thus, this research tries to prove that whether it is the cause of war or the daily lives of people in Nigeria even after the era of decolonization are undergoing colonial rule, i.e. the legacy is still working in the name of foreign aids and support through the means of political co-ordination, economic globalization and foreign academic policies.Item Identity Crisis in The Inheritance of Loss(Department of Management, 2008) Kattel, JagannathThe present research work analyses the crisis of identity of Jemubhai, Sai, Biju and Gyan, as the research question. All of them struggle with their identity and fail to maintain a foothold within the encroaching Westernization. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives Jemubhai who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. Biju is hop scotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. An Indian-Nepali insurgency in the mountains interrupts Sai's blossoming romance with Gyan. It causes their lives to descend into chaos, forcing them to consider their colliding interests. And the present research contests their quest for identity in postcolonial India.Item Misrepresentation of the Occident and the Orient in George Orwell‟s Burmese Days: A Postcolonial Reading(Faculty of English, 2015) Dhakal, SaralaThis thesis attempts to illustrate how Westerners exploit, dominate and misrepresent the non-westerners in the name of civilization, on the one hand, and how non-westerners themselves misrepresent their own land, people and culture as inferior due to their colonial mentality on the other hand. Colonial discourses have created various images to represent the Eastern countries and people as the others. It establishes a created form of reality in the readers‟ mind. It functions as a power to dominate, educate and govern over the non-Western countries. Behind every misrepresentation, there lies the motive of colonization and dominate the Orient. Colonial discourses have functioned as power to create hierarchy of race and color that assist the colonizers to centralize them and inferiorize others, which provides an approach to project Westerners‟ stereotypes of others. George Orwell‟s Burmese Days textualizes the misrepresentation of Burma and hostility between White colonizers as „We‟ and Burmese people as „Other‟. Orwell has partially expressed his love-hate attitudes towards the Burmese people and the white imperialists through his characters.Item Recreation of Subaltern History in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land(Department of English, 2018) Tuladhar, BijayAmitav Ghosh’s In An Antic Land focuses on the history of marginalized people and community of ancient time period. It is complex text which bears the quality of partially history, partially fiction and partially travel writing in which Ghosh trails back to twelfth century and brings the issues on how India came into the contact with Egypt with the story of Ben Yiju, Jewish merchant from Tunisia and his Indian slave Bomma. By trailing to antique past he insight deeply into the cultural and social development of Egypt from religious movements to Operation Desert Storm. Ghosh has not only written the historical novel rather he has evoked the history of marginal people who have been abandoned by mainstream history. Combining keen observations with painstaking historical research, he present the dreams and aspirations of ordinary human beings and the effect of political and historical changes in their lives. With all great qualities of travel writer, Ghosh searches for the hidden history of subaltern in this novel.Item Representation of Colonial Mentality in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island(Department of English, 2019) Chaudhary, Shiv CharanThis research marks an attempt to explore the Representation of Colonial Mentality in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. The obsession for materiality during the days of high Victorian era and the literary documentation or creation of contemporary scholars is to support for colonizer’s mission to expand territories in different non –western countries. The decay of moral values, disbelief with brothers and craze for collecting the property outside Britain was the pre-dominant culture and practice for Europeans. Stevenson's main concern is to expose the social frivolities and evil practices of contemporary society. In doing so, I have used Edward Said's Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism and Elleke Boehner's colonial and post colonial literature as a theoretical insight to analysize the text. The study comes to finding that Stevenson's political attitude pre-supposed to the non- western land as very much rich in its natural resources and as a colonialists his purpose is to import those resources in to Europe. For this purpose, they used masquerading enlightenment power and the act like domination of the colonized land for the valuable natural resources. Key Words: politics, Colonization, adventure narrative, material interest, dominationItem Traumatic Experience in J. M. Coetzee's Youth(Department of English, 2008) Shrestha, SumanThe present dissertation on Youth by J.M. Coetzee attempts to show a vivid portrayal of traumatic experience of the characters in 1950s triggered by the violence of colonization, resistance over indirect colonization in the postcolonial era. Coetzee, here, shows the dejected life of the protagonist as an exile in London. The protagonist's delirium caused by the gaps and disruptions of history conflates with the racial violence and the protest of Blacks. The violence and his exile force the character to experience the historical trauma. The traces of colonial mentality and the burden of communal guilt increase the pressure of trauma, he experiences.