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Item Commodification of Female Body: A Study of Nepali Film Posters(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2011) Subedi, Yuba RajAvailable with full text.Item Commodification of Human Subjectivity in Ha Jin's Under the Red Flag(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2013-08) Mijar, Ravi LalThis thesis, “Commodification of Human Subjectivity in Ha Jin's Under the Red Flag” focuses on stories of Ha Jin to show the issue of commodification of human values. The researcher shades light upon the miserable existence of proletariates on the one hand and the extreme form of domination by the bourgeois on the other. Ha Jin commences with the ingredients of capitalist society in order to prove his writing as a evidence of brutal acts of bourgeois and its effect upon the society. The research explores the stories such as "The Richest Man" which commodifies Li Wan materializing everything, even the norms of Mao; "Emperor" shows the commodification of labour value; "New Arrival" reduces Ning, the woman's values as commodity; "Fortune" promotes the utilitarianism depicting the misery of Tang Hu and "In Broad Daylight" shows the obligatory situation of women by providing the picture of a prostitute serving her master all the day and night. Thus, the researcher argues that Under the Red Flag exposes the horrors and evils of capitalism which has commodified everything and takes Ha Jin's critique of such commodification as critique of capitalism on humanitarian ground.Item Commodification of human values in Mulk Raj Anand's Novel The Big Heart(Department of English, 2009) Rijal, Prem LalThe Big Heart by Mulk Raj Ananda obviously displays the commodification of the poor thathiars. The victimization and objectification of the thathiars in Mulk Raj Anand’s novel The Big Heart be unveiled and done justice to the characters who have been oppressed in the novel. The research, therefore, attempts to uncover the underlying structure of exploitation of poor people under capitalistic social system. So suppressed the poor thathiars who are traditional coppersmiths that they are begging for single morsel of food just to exist in this earth. Ralia, Dina, Viroo and other Thathiars are maltreated in the hands of the Kaseras and Murli Dhar. Even they can not establish healthy human relations; but their love, compassion, feelings all are commodified. Ananta, the protagonist gets killed as he opposed this very exploitation and commodification of the Thathiars. The dissertation has taken help of Marxist theoretical insight in order to carry out this research work which tries to expose how the coppersmiths have been maltreated as commodities in the hands of capitalism and its social order.Item Human on Sale: A Neo-Marxist Reading of Marquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor(Department of English, 2018) Bom, PrakashTo read Gabrial Garcia Marquez's novel The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor is to unveil the position of general working class people in capitalistic society. Human condition as shown in the novel is not better than an object in the market. This objectification of human body shows the dehumanization upon humanity and autonomous subjectivity. Human is controlled, mishandled and objectified for the benefit of capitalists. They follow an economic theory that attempts to move away from the traditional accusations of class warfare and create new economic theory models. Human like Luis, the main character of this novel, has been used by capitalists to get material achievement. In modern society and culture industry, human body is commodified to get more benefit.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, CommodificationItem Women’s Constricated Space in Lawrence’s "The Rocking Horse Winner" and "Odour of Chrysanthemums"(Department of English, 2017) Gelal, PrativaUtilizing the concept of modernity and gender conceptualized by Bonnie Kim Scott and byJanet Wolff, this research project concentrates upon the difficulties and crises upon female characters in D.H .Lawrence’s selected short stories:"The Rocking Horse Winner"and"Odour of Chrysanthemums". Most of the female characters in these stories are deviated from their individual identity due to their quest for freedom, justice and material prosperity from modern society. Lawrence is not sincere towards female characters . Hester and Mrs. Bates do not have appropriate space and credit for their effortto crossthe traditional gender boundaries.Modernity promises about education, development, and betterment of humanity. However, modernity deteriorates female charactersin the level of puppet despite enlightening them. Key Words: Modernity, Gender, Flenuer, Flenuese, Patriarchy, Commodification