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Item Blurring Racial Dichotomy: A Study of Double Consciousness in Nella Larsen's Passing(Central Department of English, 2020) Gautam, SavitaThis thesis examines the idea of racial passing for African-Americans represented in Nella Larsen’s Passing. It analyses the inner psyche of African-American women in the light of the novel’s characters: Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry, who use the trope of passing to surpass the disabilities of being Negrore siding in white community. In the novel, Larsen’s protagonists share their different views regarding passing for white from two different perspectives. These two views reflect two different psyches of African-American people where one passed for white permanently and second prefers situational passing during the time of need only. They present the importance of passing for African-American in order to improve their status as being black in color and black as women. This research explores how the act of passing not only collapses the racial hierarchies but also presents race as a matter of social construction. Likewise, drawing on the concept of Double consciousness, Larsen displays the struggle of Blacks to remain visible beyond the suffocations of internalized oppression. Being inferior in the society, Blacks begins to view themselves through the prejudices lens of white dominant culture which forces them to uphold both racial identity as Black and White. This split in identity reinforces them to adopt both racial identities which blur the racial dichotomy created by so-called American racial ideology.Item Politics of Polyphony in Morrison’s God Help the Child(Department of English, 2017) Sapkota, ShalikramThis thesis examines the polyphonic and dialogic nature of God Help the Child. The central objective of thesis is to observe the stories of six main speakers including Morrison herself. The protagonists share their different versions of realities belonging to the similar events from their own position. They mock of how they are being suffocated due to colorism, individualism, and commodification of human values. This thesis has been studied in the light of Bakhtinian notion of polyphony, dialogism,and carnival. I also discuss the concepts of Sue Vice on the comprehensive discussion of carnival. The main finding of this paper is to help the reader understand that in order to address the sentiments of the multicultural society; any oeuvre should not represent the voice of one group rather it has to represent plurality of consciousness by injecting multiple voices. So,people living there will identify themselves in it. It helps to build better humanitarian world. It becomes useful to the artist, sociologist, leaders, planers and developers if they are going to make some constructive programs in the multicultural society.It inculcates the significance of polyphony and why including the sentiment of multiple voices is essential.Item Racial Passing in Toni Morrison’sGod Help the Child(Central Department of English, 2019) Shah, RoshaniThis thesis examines the racial passing in Toni Morrison’sGod Help theChild.The centralobjective of this thesis is to observe the stories of five characters who turn to be narratorsthemselves. Theirstories revolve around the process of veiling and unveiling their racial identity. Sweetness herself is a daughter of black parents but she considers herself white because she has got lighter skin, whichgives her confidence to reject her owndaughter, Bride who is very black.Including these kinds of stories regarding racial minority and color as sense of insecurity,Morrison gives pictorial view of the modern American society. To analyzeissue of racial passinginMorrison’sGod Help The Child,theoretical ideasaretaken from Richard Alba’sBlurring The Color Line, Gayle Wald’sCrossing the Line, Allyson Hobb’s A Chosen Exile, Henry Louis Gates’sThe SignifyingMonkey,and Steven J. Belluscio’sTo be Suddenly White. Thoughthetext begins with the sense of being black is a curse,it ends with the theme of blackness is beautiful.To be black is not to be marginalized and minorizedanymore. Keywords:Colorism, Racial passing,Materialism, Commodification