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Item Cultural Hybridity and Adjustment Problem in The Tree Bride(Faculty Arts in English, 2012-10) Gurung, Lal MayaThis research work makes an attempt to denote the "cultural hybridity and adjustment problem" in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tree Bride. Mukherjee being a diaspora author from Bengali community in America presents similar diasporic personality named Tara Chatterjee who after divorce with husband feels rootless in American society and trails back to West Bengal in search of the ancestry and cultural roots. She is neither a completely American nor a typical Indian. Rather she is in third space of cultural identity as the cultural hybridity what most of the diaspora people face. She in West Bengal reveals her past cultural heritage which was too developed through the similar cultural hybridity due to being a contact zone among British and Bengali during colonization. The clash of cultures even makes the Bengali bilingual which too plays the vital role to create the cultural hybridity. Analyzing these various factors this research concludes that diaspora and cultural in-betweenness are the integral part of colonization what the diasporic authors like Mukherjee try to represent in their literature in the phase of post-colonialism.Item Cultural Hybridity: Identity Crisis and Alienation in Ralph Ellison'sJuneteenth(Department of English, 2006) Gurung, Laxmi PrasadRalph Ellison'sJuneteenthmovesaround cultural hybridity, which incorporates identity crisis of the hybrid subject, Adam Sunraider. The father of the protagonist has no definite identity although he grows up in black culture and spends his childhood under the care of black preacher, Hickman. When Sunraider becomes young, he feels identity crisis, moves towards North and becomes a racist Senator. After his shooting, he meets with daddy Hickman and tries to rejoin back to his past culture of South with out much success. The hybrid subjectwho always suffers from a sense of identity crisis, is alienated his previous culture. This thesis tries to show how loss of sense of belonging to the past culture leads to the character's sense of alienation and identity crisis. Even negotiation cannot give total satisfaction to the alienated subject, for he cannot completely assimilate to either of the culture: the past and the present, which make their claim upon him.Item The Hill of Devi:An Orientalist Reading(Department of English, 2007) Karki, Tek BahadurThe thesis stands on the orientalist reading, of E.M. Forster'sThe Hill of Devi which unfolds the negative British gaze on India, its people, culture and civilization. The study, entirely made on orientalism, proceeds by raising the issues of power, hegemony and representation of India through an ulterior perspective. The images and stereotypes about India and Indian people are undeniably orientalist and the researcher has made a great deal of effort to justify that the negative British gaze of the novelist on India and its culture comes through the sharing of orientalism.Item Mimicry in Cary's Mister Johnson:Cultural Hybridity(Department of English, 2006) Khanal, NabinMostly, people have innate respect, reverence and love towards their culture of origin. When it comes to the clash of cultures, people face a situation of mimicry. Joyce Cary'sMister Johnsonis an account of cultural hybridity of Mister Johnson, protagonist of the novel. His character is created by the tension between innate desire and colonized mind. In such a situation neither he can fully negate/forget his original African culture nor can fully escape away from the culture of the British which is ruling the natives in African colony.