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Item Quest for Home: A Critique of Globalization in Girish Karnad’s Wedding Album(Department of English, 2012) Adhikari, DibayThe present research “Quest for Home: A Critique of Globalization in Girish Karnad’s Wedding Album” excavates the causes of suffering to an expatriate who is in the deep network of globalization and materialism of twenty first century. Ashwin Panje, an Indian-American boy is in the state of cultural and spiritual crisis in the US due to the encroachment of western globalization. He feels himself as culturally hollow. He is burning inside like a volcano because of the lack of his own culture, tradition and custom. He longs for his native country and returns India to marry a traditional Hindu girl who could save him from cultural crisis. His returning to India from the US indicates the significance of the custom, tradition, rituals, culture and spirituality to the individuals who are entangled in the vast maroon of western globalization. It reflects the quest for home which is an important issue for an expatriate. On the one hand, he returns India in search of his culture and spirituality on the other hand, the Indian society no longer remains as traditional as in the past. The socio-cultural aspects of the society have been altered due to the flows of globalization.Item Sense of Cultural Crisis and Alienation in Naipaul’s Guerrillas(Faculty of English, 2013) Baniya, SujitaThis thesis explores the problems of the colonized people: their sense of alienation from the landscape, their identity and cultural crisis. All the black characters feel dislocated because they are kept in margin and even not given human rights. They are taken as play things at the hands of the whites. This dissertation particularly deals with diasporic dislocation which causes cultural crisis and alienation in V.S. Naipaul’s Guerrillas. This study includes the basic elements of dislocation, social identity, hybridity, mimicry, cultural study, marginality of the black. Jimmy, the representative figure of whole black race, faces racial dislocation in his own land and in England, too. White people consider blacks to be inferior and non-human, and this ultimately marginalizes blacks pushing them to periphery. Their originality has been lost because of the domination of the so called supreme or dominant culture imposed by the whites during the period of colonization. Since they were physically, mentally and psychologically marginalized in their own land, culture and rights, they felt loss of cultural crisis and alienated in their own space. Jimmy and other black natives see the necessity of black racial identity. Because of extreme domination, they vow to start revolution against whites.