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Item Black Folklore in Zora Neale Hurtson's Their Eyes Were Watching God(Department of English, 2014) Bhandari, SunilThis research studies Janie’s struggle for cultural identity in Their Eyes Were Watching God through black folklore, southern dialect, black symbolism, cultural embodiment of voodoo, black setting and celebration of native culture. This study reflects the political philosophy of Harlem Renaissance which is an awakening of Black Culture. Janie as the protest against the western domination and white externality celebrates black life and culture independently of oppositional definitions. It focuses the roles of myth and social institutions, the re-inscribed social roles and norms, literal and figurative death of the black and rebirth as well to demonstrate the affluence of southern life. Through the hearts and minds of those who read Janie’s story can trace the subjective agency over her identity crisis and understands what it means to struggle. Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God is a novel about people who are amid of white threshold waiting for the suspension in contradiction of being free. Their collective memory of slavery resulted psychic damage, although the quest is guided to as alive as a pear tree in blossom which supplied with their brave beliefs and self-efficacy ultimately moved to the front yard from the backyard. Deeply rooted injustice as a world system has been uprooted and the indifferent human sufferings and exploited black lives are migrated from their suffocation to the ventilated free life.Item Colonialist Ideology in Melville’s Typee(Department of English, 2007) Chalise, Narayan DattThis dissertation concentrates on a critical study of Herman Melville’s Typee in an attempt to explore the presence of colonialist ideology that assumes the superb status of the Whites over non-whites in term of race, civilization, ethnicity and so on. This paper basically focuses upon underlying psychic patterns, behaviors and manners of the white protagonist and narrator named Tommo, who, as a product of white cultural background, expresses his colonialist attitude by representing everything non-white as ‘other’, 'inferior' and ‘marginal’. Tommo appears sympathetic towards the natives (the Typees) at times, however, when he feels the danger of loosing his Euro-American cultural identity, he discards them and returns back to Home. Such Eurocentric, ethnocentric and racist attitudes and biases are the sole products of colonialist ideology shared by Melville and externalized through the protagonist, Tommo, in Typee.Item Construction of 'Kathmandus of Mind' in Upadhayay's Arresting God in Kathmandu(Department of English, 2017) Yonghang, LokendraThis research concentrates on the diasporic depiction of Nepalese society and how the characters are engulfed by homesickness on Samrat Upadhyay's Arresting God in Kathmandu by applying diasporic perspective keeping the identity crisis at heart. A key characteristic of diaspora is that a strong sense of connection to a homeland is maintained through cultural practices and ways of life. Cultural change is another major problem faced by the diasporic community especially by the diasporic people. When they try to settle in a new place they find several changes in the new society. It shocks them and they try to cling to their homeland culture by following it strictly. Dislocation causes severe problems to the diasporic people. When individual moves from his home country to a new land, the foreign atmosphere makes them sick. Based on the reasons for dislocation, the suffering faced by the diasporic people too changes. The gap of studying the feelings and emotions of expatriate writers is filled by the present research work.Item Cultural Performance and Construction of Sherpa Cultural Identity in Ku-sum(Department of English, 2023) Sherpa, AngnimaAvailable with full textItem Cultural Trauma as a Resistance for Identity in Naipaul’s Guerrillas(Faculty of English, 2011) Subedi, DibyaswarNaipaul’s novel Guerrillas is a novel of traumatic experience experienced by black people. Naipaul has tactfully presented the traumatic feeling of the blacks’ experience. Trauma is the main source to the blacks through which they resist against the whites. The domination and deprivation from natural rights and racial discrimination are the traumatic events for blacks. This unfairness and authority over them is really painful. Not only blacks, everyone who is deprived from their rights and discriminated in the name of caste and colour wants to establish their own identity and culture. Blacks’ rights are seized and identity was thrown into danger by whites. Blacks are worried about their rights and identity. The reach of whites everywhere is not acceptable for them. They want to chase whites by means of resistance. Resistance is one of the means of recovery of lost things. They have lost their culture and identity and these black people are struggling against whites by announcing revolution because revolution is one of the ways to gain their target. At the end, cultural trauma is a source to resistance for identity. Because of cultural trauma, these blacks revolt against whites and want to recover their identity. Identity is the main target of these people and this revolution of black people helps to form it.Item Diasporic Allenation: A Postcolonial Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland(Department of English, 2015) Adhikari, Namrata KumariThis thesis attempts to explore diasporic alienation from the postcolonial perspective in Jhumpa Lahari’s novel The Lowland. It tries to present how the work is full up the theme of diasporic alienation. Along with the central character, all the members of the same family are getting tragedy and living self exile life in United States. Their minds vacillate between two contradictory cultures existing in that time. It attempts to analyze the different strands of alienation to make the work more comprehensive and to show the nature of postcolonial world. The origin of the characters and its literary importance has been projected through this paper along with the different meanings of diasporic alienation having a slight difference in their meaning. The concept of diaspora, alienation, and somehow postcolonialism have been mentioned in this research paper to carry out the theme of diasporic alienation. All the presented characters face several unexpected challenges and cultural clash in the pursuing of harmonious life in the diasporic land.Item Formation of Yoruba Cultural Identity in Soyinka'sDeath and The King's Horseman and TheStrong Breed(Department of English, 2018) Jha, Rupesh KumarThis thesis studies how Yoruba cultural identity has been formed in Soyinka's Death and the King's HorsemanandThe StrongBreed.The study reveals Soyinka's representation of the contemporary religious condition with the people of Nigeria that relates with Yoruba culture. Soyinka shows the culture which consists the identity of Yoruba religious. The religious' turbulanceis prominent factor in Nigeria which is also known to be the part of Africa inDeath and the King's Horseman. Elesin returns for retaining the culture for the place of his father where he is ready for sacrifice. Similarly, inThe Strong Breed,Eman is exiled from other culture and after returning from other culture, he goes for carriertogive sacrificebeforethatheisbeingexiledin his own culture by saying that native people cannot give bread. Soyinka represents cultural identity with the help ofboth dramas. On one hand, characters arepreserving their native land and showing the glorification of culture on the other hand, it is also about the obsession of sacrifice that points through the activities of Eman and Elesin. For the sake of culture both come from other culture to give the sacrifice. Meanwhile, Elesin was in England when his father named Olunde was fighting with westerners for sacrifice and inThe Strong Breed, the protagonist named Eman was exiled from her own culture and the communityselected Ifada for Breed but Eman fight with the people of that community.Item Graffiti in Kathmandu Valley: Multimodal discourse analysis(Department of English Education, 2019) Neupane, PratikshaThis study entitled “Graffiti in Kathmandu Valley: Multimodal Discourse Analysis” was carried out to identify the multimodal features included in graffiti arts and to explore the contents of writing in graffities. Furthermore, this study examined the meaning communicated via images included in the graffities. The study adopted qualitative research design, which was based on Kress and Leeuwon (1996) multimodal discourse analysis. Fifty graffities from different locations of Kathmandu valley were selected for analysis of the data. The data were analyzed based on MDA analytical framework. To accomplish the objectives, I used only publicly appeared graffiti wall arts. The results of the study revealed that multiple features such as presentation of various themes, multiple modes like signs, symbols, colors, words with images, stylish writing structures and linguistic features were noticed in graffiti writing of Kathmandu valley. It was also found that multiple issues were raised in the graffiti, which included politics, gender discrimination, women violence and languages. This study has been divided into five main section. The first chapter deals with introduction of the study, which consists of background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, Research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study, and operational definitions of key terms. The second chapter includes the review of theoretical literature, empirical literature, implications of the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter discusses the method and procedures of the study. It consists of design, method, and procedures of the study. It consists of design and methods of sample and sampling strategy, sources of data, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedures, data analysis and interpretation procedures and ethical considerations. The Fourth chapter incorporates the analysis and interpretation of data and the fifth chapter deals with findings, conclusions and recommendations related to policy, practice and further research. References and appendices were included at the last part of the study.Item Hedonistic American Culture Vs Fundamental Islamic Culture: A Sturdy Clash in John Updike's Terrorist(Department of English, 2010) Gajmer, Dinesh KumarThe focus of my research is on the clash of hedonistic American culture and fundamental Islamic culture, which is based on the life-styles led by the major characters in John Updike's Terrorist. This sturdy clash is not visible in the superficial ordinariness of the novel as it is completely covert. However, this research work makes an effort to do a thorough excavation, interpretation and analysis of the American life-styles so as to aptly externalize the collision of the aforementioned cultures on the solid foundations of a sturdy clash between Teresa and Ahmad, the representatives of hedonistic American culture and fundamental Islamic culture respectively, in the novel.Item Identity Crisis in The Inheritance of Loss(Department of Management, 2008) Kattel, JagannathThe present research work analyses the crisis of identity of Jemubhai, Sai, Biju and Gyan, as the research question. All of them struggle with their identity and fail to maintain a foothold within the encroaching Westernization. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives Jemubhai who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. Biju is hop scotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. An Indian-Nepali insurgency in the mountains interrupts Sai's blossoming romance with Gyan. It causes their lives to descend into chaos, forcing them to consider their colliding interests. And the present research contests their quest for identity in postcolonial India.Item Longing for Cultural Identity in Khuwant Singh's Train to Pakistan(Department of English, 2013) Bhandari, Chitra BahadurThis research has explored the cultural identity in Khuswant’s Singh’s Train to Pakistan. The central character is displaced from own culture but when defines his cultural existence into alien land where he feels gap between own and other's culture. Cultural pattern shapes human way of living that is internalized along with our socio- cultural location. By living with alien culture, he comes to know meaning of culture. He experiences cultural gap between own culture and another culture then it defines cultural values. Iqbal retrieves his cultural position and identity into own culture. Thus, Iqbal quest of cultural identity leads the research work.Item Memory and the Politics of Cultural Identity in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion(Department of English, 2012) Bhusal, SumanMichael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist’s In the Skin of a Lion (1987), focuses on the plight of the immigrants, especially of a marginalized character Patrick Lewis who was lost in the vast land of Toronto as he sets out his journey from Ontario village. In Toronto, he is unable to situate himself. Gradually, he sees his image reflected with the Macedonian co-workers. Patrick’s gradual move from a private isolated sphere to an interpersonal relationship with Clara, finally leads towards to the collective site of the immigrant community. Nicholas Temelcoff never looks back but once reminded by Patrick, he shows the wealth in himself. Their memory of the past remains ‘incomplete’ and ‘fragmentary’, therefore they are unable to look back at the root precisely and accurately. The passing of the stories is the only way to ensure the histories of ordinary people, those without power, are sewn in history. Material referents of cultural – bridge, water station – have always been subject to decay but narrative, travelling through time from subject to subject, has always been able to carry cultural identity to future generations. By narrating the stories to Hanna, a sixteen year old girl, Patrick not only confirms his identity but also confirms the identity of the Macedonian community of workers at large.Item Memory and the Politics of Cultural Identity in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion(Department of English, 2012) Bhusal, SumanMichael Ondaatje, Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist’s In the Skin of a Lion (1987), focuses on the plight of the immigrants, especially of a marginalized character Patrick Lewis who was lost in the vast land of Toronto as he sets out his journey from Ontario village. In Toronto, he is unable to situate himself. Gradually, he sees his image reflected with the Macedonian co-workers. Patrick’s gradual move from a private isolated sphere to an interpersonal relationship with Clara, finally leads towards to the collective site of the immigrant community. Nicholas Temelcoff never looks back but once reminded by Patrick, he shows the wealth in himself. Their memory of the past remains ‘incomplete’ and ‘fragmentary’, therefore they are unable to look back at the root precisely and accurately. The passing of the stories is the only way to ensure the histories of ordinary people, those without power, are sewn in history. Material referents of cultural – bridge, water station – have always been subject to decay but narrative, travelling through time from subject to subject, has always been able to carry cultural identity to future generations. By narrating the stories to Hanna, a sixteen year old girl, Patrick not only confirms his identity but also confirms the identity of the Macedonian community of workers at large.Item Quest for African American Cultural Identity in Wright’s The Native Son(Department of English, 2012) Joshi, Narayan PrasadThis research on Richard Wright's Native Son (1840) inherently studies the African American cultural identity of black people in American. Native Son which is a story of a young black boy, Bigger, who kills an American girl accidently and is sentenced to death in an unfair trail, is viewed as a masterpiece that questions the presuppositions that have been postulated by the imperialistic societies. This project also identifies the cultural heritage of African American. The Protagonist Bigger as the representative of the society wants to preserve her own native culture. He advocates for his own language and ritual practices to establish his cultural identity against mainstream culture. Thematically and structurally Native Son is dominated by struggle for freedom from all forms of oppression and realization of full potentiality of one's complex bicultural identity as an African American. At the end, violence is stronger force; it gives the real consciousness to Bigger as an individual to perceive his cultural identity even at the time of death.Item 'Rhruisal' as a Trope of Cultural Identity: A Performative Reading of Tamang Rituals(Department of English, 2015) Lama, FinjuThe present research is a study of cultural identity of Rhruisal as a trope through the lens of performative reading in Tamang rituals. Socio-cultural and natural factors lead it to be as a trope of cultural identity in the Tamang community. Rhruisal is a particular ritual practice of the Tamang life. Rhruisal especially concerns about the cultural practices to be alive in the major domain of the rituals such as birth ritual, marital ritual, and death sacrament and other religious rites. It determines the clans out of Tamang caste too because it carries out multiple meanings to it. Indeed, it is a small piece of bone which is taken out from the part of forehead as a Rhruisal after finishing the cremation of dead body. Tamang people believe that the Rhruisal is known as a remainder of the human body as well as relic. In Tamang tradition, it lies in the central part of the ritualistic nature and plays a vital role when they are in the ritual practices in the society. They believe that during the time of pregnancy, white seed or bone from father and red seed or blood from mother are considered to be transmitted to the fetus in the womb. So, the surname of the child is from his/her father's clan. The daughters' clans also do not transfer to other family relation after marriage because of Rhruisal. It symbolizes to the purification also to their family while making the process of Thapsang (Nwaran) in birth, taking inside of out caste bride in marital life and in death sacrament. In this manner, Rhruisal has a cultural identity in the Tamang society.Item Storytelling, Text, and Memory in Robert J. Conley's Mountain Windsong(Department of English, 2006) Shiwakoti, SuvadraRabert J. Conley's novelMountain Windsongattempts to recreate the forgetten history of American natives through the narrative technique of storytelling.Thenovel is a story toldby Grandfather to Grandsonwhichincludeslegends, historical documents, anecdotes, songetc.thatforegroundthe oral tradition of nativesas their cultural identity to resist Anglo-Americans. Conley shelters on natural phenomena and storytelling tradition as alternative space. He confirms his affinity to the marginalized natives. The novel presents Oconeechee and Waguli as lovers, whose separation due to Trail of Tearsresemblesthe plight of Cherokeesas a whole. Conley narrates the unheard voiceof nativesadopting varities of fragmentationand thus, deconstructingthegrand narratives. Withthis novel, he gives a voice to those voices, whichwere unheard in official history of U.S. andgives the shapeof text to recreate Cherokeecultural identitybyresistingtheAnglo-Americans.Item The Study of Cultural Trauma in Morrison’s A Mercy(Department of English, 2010) Timilsina, NagendraA Mercy depicts the effect of cultural identity of African American as well as Native American through the traumatic incidents of slavery. It focuses on the fragmented traumatic memory of the characters for their cultural identity. Being the traumatic characters their behaviors and activity seen in the form of enigmatic behavior etc, results the cultural trauma acting upon them. Every character either slaves or non slaves are in the quest of their identity in the newly found land, America. Beside this, the novel is the real picture of slave’s traumatic memory and trauma for their lost identity. Thus, this research explores the traumatic voice of the characters for their cultural identity as depicted in A Mercy.