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Item Critique of Western Modernity in Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence(Department of English, 2012) Shrestha, PratibhaInThe Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie demands for alternative modernities to valorize premodern ethical and moral valuesas well as non-Western culture and civilization bycritiquingWestern modernist rationality exposing its exclusiveness, individualism, and monolithic vision. While doing so, Rushdie mixes up many genres within a single book and wrestles with the coloniallegacy and implication of anthropological knowledge exposing Westerner's interference upon the non-western ideology. Similarly, he exposes cosmopolitanism and hospitable values which existed in India in Mughal Akbar's time, and values of non-Western culture and civilization through his own experience.Akbar the Great, the Famous Sixteenth century Mughal emperor,championed religious tolerance and reason in India.He is presented as abrilliant military commander as well assomething of a philosopher ruler who challenges the Western modernity represented by Mogordell’Amoreand Qara Köz.Item Cultural Hybridity in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus(Faculty of English, 2013) Kafle, RukmagatPurple Hibiscusdis covers the breakdown of the family authenticity with cultural hybridity under the influence of Christian religion in postcolonial Nigeria.It further exposes the two cultural extremes of traditional Igbo culture and of Western Christian culture in the post independent scene of the 1990s.For example, Papa Nnukwu celebrates Igbo tradition,while Eugene follows Christiantenetblindly. The novel criticizes the Eurocentric and exclusive Catholicism of previous generations,and demands respect for Igbo spirituality. No attempt is made to recover traditional religion in everyday life or to acculturate Catholicism in religious practices that are never essential to the majority of people.Kambili and Jaja, the main characters, are in repression by the irown father in their home due to the religious dispute.The other characters like Ifoma,father Amadi,Kambili and Jajaadmire own Igboculture while acceptingit with Christian culture.They together strengthen their culture and find their identity infusion. Purple Hibiscusis a complex tale of Kambili, a young girl growing up in Nigeria, in between the old“pagan”ways and her Catholic upbringing. Her life is structured and ruled by her strict Catholic father.However,a trip to visit her Auntie in another town shows her another way of living. Kambili has trouble accepting this alternative lifestyle and feels torn between the two. With the help of her brother, auntie, cousins, and a priest, she begins to see other ways of thinking and acting than her father expects.Item Cultural Hybridity in Bhagat's TheThree Mistakes of My Life(Department of English, 2010) Koirala, Bhuvan PrasadThe issue of cultural hybridity has gained upperhand in the novel The Three Mistakes of My Life. Chetan Bhgat’s The Three Mistakes of My Life moves around cultural hybridity, which is incorporated by the activities of Govind. The activities of protagonist are influenced by western culture. He grows up in Hindu culture and adopts the culture of the West in his school life. When Govind becomes young, he starts to copy the Western culture and make the illegal sexual relation with his student. Govid is the hybrid subject of this novel, and becomes the victim of his wrong actions and decisions. This thesis tries to show how loss of sense of belonging to the past culture leads to the all characters’ identity crisis and sense of alienation. Vidya becomes parentless; Ishaan and Ali lose their friend. Even negotiation cannot give total satisfaction to the alienated subject, for he cannot completely assimilate to the previous group and culture. The past and the present which make their claim upon him.Item Cultural Hybridity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake(Faculty of English, 2014) Gurung, SangitaJhumpa Lahiri’s narrator in The Namesake explicates an immigrant’s position of cultural hybridity in the United States. In Lahiri’s narrative, Gogol Nikhil Ganguli vacillates between the traditional Bengali and modern American cultures in terms of his fascination of the West and resentment of the East. Gogol and Sonia represent young immigrants in America, whereas their parents stand for original Bengali culture. Ashoke chooses a Russian name while Gogol’s family back home in Calcutta suggest Nikhil as an official name for the boy in school. Ashoke gives the boy Gogol as his pet name in the honor of a famous Russian writer; however, the son legally changes his name into Gogol Nikhil Ganguli shortly before he leaves for college. Both Gogol and Ashoke embody cultural ambivalence resulted from their experiences of two different worldviews, the Indian and the American. The protagonist, while migrating from the East to the West, shares both the cultures: the original indigenous Bengali and the modern American one. Gogol represents the many of the second generation immigrants while his father embodies the first generation, and both are split between the two worlds. The protagonist’s relationship with parents and family reflect the hero’s quest for his identity while living in the Indian diaspora in the West. Not only Gogol’s engagement with Maxine but also separation from her embodies immigrants’ split identities. After reluctance for some time, Gogol marries, Moushumi, the Bengali girl, but their relationship ends with their divorce. Gogol, who resents his name over the years, accepts it after his father explains its significance. His hatred of name replicates his resentment of tradition and Indian identity because of upbringing in different world. Precisely, Lahiri’s novel explicates generational and cultural gaps in the disaspora.Item Cultural Hybridity in Orwell’s Burmese Days(Department of English, 2013) Dahal, Tirtha PrasadThis research is the analysis of George Orwell’s novel Burmese Days to examine the cultural hybridity that is the phenomenon of the contact zone between the colonial and native values in colonial Burma during British Raj. In the novel, there are plenty of instances to highlight the ambivalent and hybrid psychological positions of the characters. Flory, a colonial timber merchant mingles with the Indian doctor Veraswami and criticizes his own colonial values. He shows ample sympathy to the native values highlighting the ambivalence and hybridity. Doctor Veraswami, on the other hand, blindly adores the European values and rates the English values as the far more superior to the native values, being a native himself. He demonstrates the considerable amount of mimicry to the colonial values as well as ambivalent and hybrid psychological positionality. Both the characters put the colonial values and authority into jeopardy with their position in-betweenness the native and the colonial values.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 Displacement and Alienation in le thie diem thuy’s The gangster we are all looking for(Department of English, 2011) Sapkota, YubarajThis research deals with the experience of Vietnamese immigrant family in the United States who are having a traumatic life due to their physical distance from their native land. They are suffering from diasporic alienation and identity crisis in the multicultural society. When the familyforcibly leaves its homeland it is affected by foreign culture. They not only find it difficult to assimilate but also cannot disown their native culture. Their identity becomes hybrid amidst the intersection of multiple cultures.So, their ambivalent orin-between position germinates alienation and identity crisis which pushes them to remain in the sense of tumultuous life. As a result their life crawls through the memory or nostalgia which becomes an alternative source in search of fix identity and belongingness.Item Hybrid Consciousness in Anita Desai's The Village by the Sea(Department of English, 2010) Goit, DayanandAnita Desai in The Village by the Sea carves out a picture of the post-colonial period in India that conveys information about the fact how colonizers got their mission accomplished, that is to sow the seeds of capitalism and expand their market by bringing about a drastic change in the economic system in India. Bombay represents the implication of the entire colonial project which victimizes people of the rural India like Hari and compels them to lose their native identity in the post-colonial context. Hari is depicted to represent the people in postcolonial era who suffer identity crisis due to his double consciousness. He is culturally hybridized and now is in the ambivalent position in the sense that he can neither feel to be a complete villager nor has he tottaly adopted the urban life. Consequently he is in in-between situation and his plight is problematic and confusing.Item Mimicry in Ruskin Bond’s The Room on The Roof: A Case of Cultural Hybridity(Department of English, 2016) Shahi, Ram BahadurThe research brings into discussion to cultural mimicry as a colonial issue which occurs from both colonizer and colonized sides. It has been introduced in Ruskin Bond’s The Room on the Roof. The novel projects an Englishman who lives in India and in course of living there, he imitates Indian cultural pattern. It becomes his option for adjustment in new scenario. In this regard, cultural exchange takes place when there are two cultures together. During colonial period in India, both English and Indian were influenced by each other's cultural pattern. Though English ruler supposed to impose their cultural aspects, even they could not remain untouched from Indian cultures. Rusty represents the English culture, but he imitates Indian cultures while living in India. Being in India, he comes into contact with Indian people and he easily influences from their cultures. Being away from his culture, he feels alienated and frustrated. Therefore, in order to lessen his cultural distance and for the adjustment in new location, he adopts Indian culture.Item Quest for Identity in Nadine Gordimer’sThe Pickup(Department of English, 2021) Basnet, AstikThis paper analyzes Nadine Gordimer’sThe Pickup, a post-colonialdiasporic novel. It examines how Gordimer showsdiasporic people’s sense of displacement, loss, identity crisis and their attempts for identity formation. It analyzes Gordimer’s several motifs behind using Abdu, Julie and other minor characters to show the continuous process of identity formation which has vividly shown people’s choice to exile from their place and willingly and unwillingly forms their diasporic identity. To explore the concept of diasporic people's formation of identity, this paper engages the ideas of cultural hybridity and diasporic people's formation of identity developed by Homi K. Bhabha’s The Location of Culture, R. Radhakrishan’s Diasporic Mediation, Stuart Hall’s Diaspora and Identity and Salman Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands. This paper contends the issues of migrant people's identity formation as well as cultural hybridity depending upon the people and the land they belong to and they stand. By doing so, this paper opens new avenues showing that there are multiple ways to examine a particular theme with special attention to contextual relations.