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Item An Analysis of Grade X English Textbook from Cultural Perspective(Department of English Education, 2022) Bohara, Karan SinghThe present research entitled An Analysis of Grade X English Textbook from Cultural Perspective aims to analyze the English textbook of Grade X in terms of religions, celebrations, customs and rituals, genders, castes, clothes, food items and arts and literary genres incorporated in the textbook. The current secondary level English textbook of grade X was the main source of this research work. The data were collected through an observation checklist. The data were collected making eight different criteria in a checklist. Then, the data were analyzed and interpreted qualitatively. The study reveals that the textbook authors have tried their best to make the textbook inclusive regarding culture but the textbook is not satisfactorily inclusive regarding religions, celebrations, customs and rituals, genders, castes, clothes, food items and arts and literary genres included in the textbook. In addition, the study also shows that the textbook is not fully justifiable in terms of the representation of gender in the text and pictures. Similarly, female authors are not equally represented in the textbook and there is less representation of minority and marginalized language communities in their authorship and other activities. Thus, this thesis will help the textbook authors to fulfil the cultural contents of all students which are missed in the current textbook. This thesis has been divided into five chapters. The first chapter consists of introductory part, which deals with the background of the study, statement of the problem, the objective of the study, significance of the study, delimitation of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter incorporates the reviews of related literature, theoretical literature, review of empirical literature and conceptual framework. The third chapter includes methods and procedures of the study. The fourth chapter analyzes and interprets the data descriptively and analytically. The fifth chapter presents the findings, conclusion and implications and the references and appendices are the concluding parts of the study.Item Cultural Hybridity in Sadia Shepard’s The Girl From Foreign(Department of English, 2015) B C, SatpalThe novel Girl From Foreign by Sadia Shepard deals with the cultural hybridity of the characters. Migration, acculturation, transculturation, diaspora, in-betweenness factors plays the role cultural hybridity. Sadia Shepard presents her autobiography connected with her family history. The colonization and decolonization play the role of leaving the native and the foreign places. Diaspora, Identity crisis, rootlessness, make remain of native culture in foreign land. The both adaption of new culture and continuation of old brings the hybrid cultural identity in the novel which is called Third Space. Diaspora, acculturation, transculturation, identity crisis, third space, in-betweenness are seen because of colonization and decolonization. The novel presents the cultural issues of the characters. So, this project deals from the cultural criticism. .Item (Mis) representation of People’s War in Nepal: A Critical Study of the Three Representative Works on the People’s War(Department of English, 2010) Pun Pratiksha, Kiran UshaAs the Maoist insurgency was raging in Nepal, many readers and well wishers of Nepali literature anticipated that the market would be flooded with realistic and authentic literary works, depicting the devastations, heroisms and ordeals of the war. But close study of People’s war literature reveals the scarcity of representative and archetypical works on the theme of a decade long 'People’s War.' To prove this claim, I have categorized and surveyed three kinds of writings: hard-core, anti-war and middle-path literary works of People’s War. To clarify this claim, I have tried to analyze the three works of Ajya Shakti’s ‘Andhisang Khelda’, Mahesh Bikram Shah’s ‘Chhapamarko Chhoro’ and Gobind Bartman’s ‘Sohra Sanjhaharoo’ applying Theodor Adorno’s Cultural Criticism as the ideas of Immanent and Transcendent. Those who wrote in the favor of 'People’s War' became the victim of immanent criticism and they only presented ideological positive aspect of war only; who penned anti-people’s war they did not catch the spirit of realistic panorama of people’s war and headed towards transcendental criticism. The reason behind this is that they limited in city and based on big media houses of Kathmandu. The middle- path writers tried to apply dialectical criticism, but they raised only dark side of People’s War and also came to be seen limited in city areas with the secondary data and information. As a result, there has not yet been written representative and archetypical People’s War literature.Item Subversion of ideologies in Manjushree Thapa’s Tilled Earth: A New Historicist Reading(Department of English, 2008) Timsina, KeshabThe present research aspires to study Manjushree Thapa's Tilled Earth, a collection of stories, from the new historicist perspective. Thapa, in the process of rewriting the official history, blurs fiction and history in such a way that her text emerges as a history from below, which, by subverting the ideologies prevailing in the society, creates a space for the voice of the marginalized people.