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Item Interplay Between Presence and Absence in Mailer’sThe Deer Park(Central Department of English, 2007) Sapkota, Bachchu RamThe present research is an inquiry into the major characters inThe Deer Parkwho are caught in the interplay between presence and absence of pleasure, satisfaction and meaning in their lives. They want to achieve full presence of close human relationship, pleasure and satisfaction, establish family but are never able tofulfill. They are guided by never ending sexual desires and float with them in the chain of supplements with a hope to achieve ‘pleasure in plenitude’. The absence of the ‘signified’ or full presence of sexual satisfaction forces them to suffer from alienation, breaks up in relationship and betrayals.Item Subalternity and Silence in Harper Lee’s Novel To Kill a Mockingbird(Department of English, 2022) Tolange, Tulsi DeviThis research studies Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird from the perspective of Subaltern Studies and subaltern silence. The novel tells the story of number of subaltern characters systematically silenced in the Southern American society of Maycomb. Even though number of characters fall under subaltern category, this research analyzes the subalternity of black character Tom Robinson. Tom Robinson faces court trial in the charge of raping a white woman Mayella. The narrator of the novel is teenage a white girl named Scout whose father Atticus Finch fights the case to save the innocent black man. Even when proofs point out that he is innocent, the court has to declare him guilty because of the social expectation and racist belief that the blacks should never secure a win over the white people. Tom cannot speak against the white, white lawyer has to speak for him but even then, he is not heard speaking by himself or by the means of his generous lawyer. He is imprisoned and shot dead by the white police devising his fake attempt to escape.Item Undoing Gender Boundaries: A Post Modern Feminist Critique of Kate Chopin's Selected Stories(Department of English, 2021) Gurung, Netra BahadurThe aim of this research paper is to prove Kate Chopin‟s stories A Kiss, A Respectable Woman and A Pair of Silk Stockings as the reflection of postmodern feminism. These texts reflect heterogeneous aspects of feminism in the line theoretical perspective of performativity by Judith Butler. On the one hand one can find the confrontation between male and female by interpreting the texts as the epitome of patriarchy. On the other hand, there exists the friendship, co-operation between male and female based on the performance of the characters. The paper reveals that Kate Chopin is creative genius as there are heterogeneous aspects in her own version of feminism that resembles with the idea of post-modern feminism, humanism and deconstruction. Rather than rigid feministic ideas her ideas also possess humanistic concerns as she has critiqued as well as deconstructed patriarchy. The paper ends with the conclusion that Chopin's selected stories stand as the perfect reservoir of postmodernism. Key Words: Classical feminism, post-modern feminism, deconstruction, heterogeneity