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Item Cultural Ambivalence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's The Thing Around Your Neck(Central Departmental of English, 2019) Gautam, KiranIn the story collection Things Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adhichi basically raises the issue of Nigerial diaspora in American landscape. Adhichi is an African diasporic writer; she mainly raises the issue of immigrants in American landscape through stories. Issues, evidences, story and characters that are deployed in these stories are suffering from diasporic evidences. Identity crisis, inferiority complex and cultural hegemony are the common themes deployed in these stories. How their mindset is colonized mentally as well as physically is the issue incorporated these three stories. Adhichi presents these stories as the document of fluctuation, dilemma, cultural destruction, inferiority, cultural hegemony of the marginalized groups of people through the life of the characters Chinaza Okafor, Ofodile Udenwa, Akunna and Nkem. "The Thing Around your Neck", "The Arrangers of Marriage" and "Imitation". A Critique of Cultural Ambivalence" is the conclusion of the whole study which asserts that westernization of Nigerian culture has created some sort of anarchy and frustration upon Nigerian people. Keywords: Ambivalence, culture, diaspora, harmony, identityItem Cultural Mobility and Identity Construction in BapsiSidhwa'sAn American Brat and Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters: A Diasporic Reading(Central Department of English, 2019) Aryal, Bed PrasadThis research explores various crosscurrents and undercurrents of western culture which creates adverse conditions for Indian and Pakistaniimmigrants in BapsiSidhwa'sAn American Brat and Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters.In both novels characters from Indian continent migrate to Unites States of America in search of better life, education and wealth. As times passes by, they go through cultural and psychological clashes. They feel they are inferior and below the human line. They do not get education, health facility and freedom. Natural rights and fundamental rights are mere dream for them. In the midst of prejudice and other anti-migrant hassles, they do not hesitate to adapt the shifting cultural locale as a strategy of survival. The characters of the novel; Feroza, Tara, Parvati and Padma adopt western way of education, culture and religion as a camouflage to resist western atrocities. However, they are sandwiched in-between in the midst of western culture. They create imaginative community as diaspora. With the application of diasporic concepts and notion propounded by Arjun Appadurai, Staurt Hall and Franco Jean, the research explores the new hybrid identity and cultural transformation of expatriates. Key Words are Diaspora, Mimicry, Hybridity, Adaptation, Survival, Inbetweenness.Item Failure of Multiculturalism in Kiran Desai’sThe Inheritance of Loss(Department of English, 2009) Bhattarai, Archana Wastinot availableItem Gurkha Diaspora Contribution In Nepal-UK Diplomatic Relationship(Department Of International Relation & Diplomacy, 2019-02) Gurung, AnjuThe twentieth century experiences the tremendous wave of globalization where the free flow of trade, ideas, innovation and most importantly people is the major ongoing phenomenon which is why the roles of the domestic actors are moreover taken over by the transnational actors. This is why the importance of diaspora has grown over time. Diaspora, forming a complex overseas network with larger effects as sources of facilitators of trade and investment, purveyors of remittances and as brain banks has a substantial role in the international arena. The effects of international migration and diaspora of a country have abroad scope of study as it offers larger sphere of influence in the economical, political and socio- cultural aspects of both host and home countries. Many countries have realized and acknowledged the vitality of diaspora and made efficient policies in order to mobilize them as soft power of their respective countries. However, Nepal still lags behind in empowering and recognizing this powerful instrument of soft power. Hence, the research aims to shed lights on the importance of Nepalese diaspora particularly on the British Gurkhas diaspora residing in the United Kingdom. British Gurkhas are one of the pioneers to immigrate to foreign lands since 18th century. They possess very peculiar characteristics of diaspora which have their effects on the economical, political and socio-cultural scenario. Their activities and achievements are some of the areas that the study looks upon and refer to while examining their roles in the policies of both Nepal and the UK.Item Immigrants’ Sense of Dislocation and Identity Crisis in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko(Central Departmental of English, 2019) Mali, Dev SinghThis research aims to illustrate the Immigrant’s sense of dislocation and identity crisis in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko. This project explores the hardship and suffering of Korean immigrants to settle in new cultural environment. This research is done under the theoretical light of Salman Rushdie’s notion of sense of belongingness and past memory, Straut Halls’ concept of cultural identity, Homi K Bhabha’s notion of mimicry, ambivalence and hybridity, and Ashcroft, Griffith and Tiffin’s idea of hybridity. In the novel, Sunja feels alienated and dislocated when she finds that others have neglected her authentic identity. When Japanese people dominate Koreans considering the latter as savage, the Koreans go through alienation and identity crisis. Sunja suffers just because she is not Japanese. It is something like ignoring second person’s existence. Another major character Noa faces identity crisis in terms of class, culture, ethnicity, and prejudices. He shows civilized behavior and acquires the life of Japanese people but when Japanese people treat him as other he loses his sense of identity and commits suicide. Thus, the Korean's sense of identity is questioned, problematized, and troubled in Japan. Keywords: Diaspora, Dislocation, Discrimination, Hybridity, Identity crisisItem A Journey from Rootedness to Rootlessness in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West(Central Departmental of English, 2019) Neure, SaradaThis research work takes MohsinHamid's Exit Westto study hybridity, rootlessness, dislocation and identity crisis brought about by 'global economic flows'. It explores how the characters Saeed and Nadia become 'ethnoscapists' in Appadurai's terms as they move from one country to another. Their wanderings and movements place them in different uncertain cultural locations where they feel rootlessness, dislocation and problem of identity.Their identity becomes a kind of hybridized identity as Saeed marries the daughter of local preacher in California. His constant focus on his prayer reflects his search for his root and identity there. On the other hand, Nadia pursues her independent career with the adoption of local values and cultures. Most importantly, Saeed and Nadia are placed in the situation of "in-betweenness or third space" in the borderless global world. Key Words: Diaspora, ethnoscapes, rootlessness, in-betweenness, dislocation and hybridity.Item Nation as Imagined in Anita Desai’s Bye-Bye Blackbird(Department of English, 2022) Acharya, PrakashUtilizing the concept of Nationalism this research explores various crosscurrents and undercurrents of migration, which creates adverse conditions for Indian migrants in Anita Desai’s novel Bye Bye Blackbird. In the novel characters from India migrate to England in serach of better life, education and wealth. In England they go through cultural and psychological problem. They are inferior and below the human line. They do not get education, health facility and freedom. Natural rights and fundamental rights are mere dream for them. In the midst of prejudice and other anti-migrant hassles, they do not hesitate adapt to the shifting cultural locale as a strategy of survival. The characters of the novel; Adit and Dev adopt western way of education, culture and religion as a camouflage to resist western atrocities. However they feel cultural in-between in the midst of western culture. They create imaginative community as diaspora. Key Words: Diaspora, Mimicry, Nation Hybridity, Identity, Survival, In- between-nessItem Redrawing the Boundariesof Identity: A Study in Michael Ondaatje’s NovelThe English Patient(Department of English, 2006) Adhikari, Ram PrasadAbstract The present researchreadsnovel of Michael Ondaatje-The English Patientwith a focus on its central character, Almasy, who istrying to redraw his identity in the alien land. It examines Almasy’sredrawingofhis identity through his character, work andhis interactions with others. He deliberately tries to negate his nationality by living in the desert where he creates for himself an alternate identity. He admits himself as an international‘bastard’, born in one place and choosing to live somewhere outside.The plane crash hasmade the “English” patient forget his national origins. It appears that this amnesia has brought his earlier wishto‘erase’ his name and place he had come from to full realization. The whole novel moves smoothly with the possibility of knowing who the ‘English’ patient really is by mentioning the name Almasy. The name appears without any direct reference to its bearer. Almasy is the only name without a clear referent and therefore designate the unnamed and unnamable character in the novel.He exists as the centre and focus of the action despite the fact that he is without name or identity for much part of the novel.Item Representation of Transnational identity in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The mistress of spice(Department of English, 2009) Ghorasaini, SumanThe present research paper analyzes the fictional postcolonial text The Mistress of Spices authored by the notable south Asian postcolonial writer, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. It argues that the writer employs her central protagonist as an agency of transnational identity as a tool to settle the cultural clash between the two cultural worlds: Eastern and Western as represented by Tilo, Geeta, Lalita and Raven respectively. It further explores how Divakaruni offers the new social phenomenon of transnationalism as an instrument to address the cultural complexity instigated by the encounter between the eastern and western cultural values in the multicultural society of America. The state of being transnational represents the possibility of having two identities, two homes, two families, and two cultures at the same time. Despite being deterritorialized from her original culture and geographical locations, Tilo exercises the typical Indian tradition of Ayurbedic business in Oakland and also serves the non-Indian people. Her romantic affair with Raven, an American boy, further shows her transnational simultaneity. To further support the argument, the paper incorporates the theoretical insights from the theory of Transnationalism accompanied by Paul Jay, Natasha Garrett, Nyla Ali Khan, Steven Vertovec, Jahan Ramazani, Homi K. Bhabha's theoretical notion of Hybrid Identity. Likewise, The paper sheds the light on the postcolonial encounter between eastern and western values in the multicultural society and concludes with findings that transnational movement can replace the essentialist notion of fixed identity and practically resolve the cultural clash in the multicultural society. Key Words: transnational identity, diaspora, transnationalism, globalization, agencyItem (Trans) national Simultaneity in Adichie's Americanah(faculty of Art in English, 2018-03) Baniya, Birendra KumarThis paper analyses Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Americanah as a transnational narrative and its characters as transnational subjects marked by various forms of simultaneity that is of home, belonging, citizenship, identity and nationality, to name a few. Simultaneity is the situation in which two things happen at the same time or it is the situation of togetherness. And the transnational people represent the possibility of having two identities, two homes, two families and two cultures at the same time. For accomplishing this analysis, I bring some of the key theoretical ideas from the theory of transnationalism which broadly refers to the contemporary way of living in a globalized world in which people can easily make cross-border connections. In this globalized world, people can travel the world physically as well as virtually and this paper explores how Adichie’s Americanah redefines the monolithic ways of looking at the issues of identity, citizenship, home, family nationality etc. Adichie achieves this redefinitions by representing the fictional characters like Ifemelu and Obinze as the Nigerian citizens who travel temporarily across their national borders leaving their loved ones back in Lagos. In spite of being deterritorialized from their original cultural and geographical location too, they make different linkages across their host lands that is their country of immigration to Nigeria. In America, Adichie’s protagonist Ifemelu comes to have a distinct identity, establishes her temporary home and family. After some years in the USA, she also achieves the provision of the American citizenship. Therefore, Adichie makes her characters like Ifemelu and Obinze the transnationals since Adichie aims at redefining the essentialist ways of looking at the issues like identity, citizenship, home, family, nationality and belonging.