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Item Cultural Ambivalence in Manju Kapur's The Immigrant(Department of English, 2018) Chaudhary, Rajendra KumarThis thesis is about the cultural ambivalence of the protagonists, Nina and Ananda, who are colonial subjects torn between the intersections of two cultures- their own Indian culture and colonizers' culture. In-between attraction and repulsion of both cultures, their subject is constructed amidst the cultural, socio-economical and political power play of both Western and Indian institutions. This research analyzes the main characters' ambivalent situation in foreign country as conceptualized by the concept of Homi K. Bhaha, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin and Leela Gandhi, which remains the primary tool of analysis. Immigrant couple tries to adjust in unfamiliar space but cannot adjust completely due to meeting of two cultures. Consequently, neither they entirely accept nor reject the western culture. Such situation of fascination and rejection at the sametime,results in their position of cultural ambivalence. Thus, the major significance of this thesis is to dramatize the in- between and ambiguous position of characters due to the amalgamation of two different cultures.Item Cultural Ambivalence in V.S. Naipaul'sA Bend in the River(Faculty in English, 2008) Sharma, Dilli RajNot AvailableItem Gabe’s Cultural Ambivalence in Roley’s American Son(Central Department of English, 2007) Basnet, Lekha RajThe characterization of the first-person narrator Gabrielito Sullivan (Gabe) in Roley’s American Son is ambivalent in terms of his cultural location. When he is attached to Mom, Aunt Jessica or uncle Betino’s letters and visits, he disapproves of his brother Tomas’ way of free of care gangster character influenced by Mexico-American decadent living. On the contrary, when he’s with Tomas or away from home, he feels the Asian virtues of living as traditional and boring. He gets often attracted to the myth of American son and American success, and possesses an instinctual dislike to their own dark Asian colour. Gabe, in the conflicts between these two drives, is never able to decide what side to take or how to maintain a third-space that could be safe and really successful in-between. The characterization of the first-person narrator Gabrielito Sullivan (Gabe) in Roley’s American Son is ambivalent in terms of his cultural location. When he is attached to Mom, Aunt Jessica or uncle Betino’s letters and visits, he disapproves of his brother Tomas’ way of free of care gangster character influenced by Mexico-American decadent living. On the contrary, when he’s with Tomas or away from home, he feels the Asian virtues of living as traditional and boring. He gets often attracted to the myth of American son and American success, and possesses an instinctual dislike to their own dark Asian colour. Gabe, in the conflicts between these two drives, is never able to decide what side to take or how to maintain a third-space that could be safe and really successful in-between.Item A Study of Cultural Oscillation in Salman Rushdie'sFury(Central Department of English, 2011) Singh, Birendra KumarSalman Rushdie in his novelFurymanifests the cultural oscillation by presenting the protagonist's cultural instability and indeterminacy as the aftermaths of the contacts of globalized culture. In the age of globalization, multiculturalism and migration, frequent shift from one culture to another has become common phenomenon. This sort of cultural shift causes dual position in which an individual or community remains culturally oscillated. This work tries to prove how contact zone depicts globalized cultural identity as a result an individual or community remains in the position of cultural oscillation. Malik ,Who shift from London to New York detaches from his home and family and immediately attaches with distinct cultural communities and at the end of the novel he again unites with his family. This contact with the people of different cultural communities such as Dubdub, Mila, Neela and others affects his cultural position. During his trans-global journey, his interaction with different situations such as spatial, occupational and relational causes cultural instability and indeterminacy due to which he remains culturally oscillated.