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Item Contingency of Subjectivity in Coelho‟s The Winner Stands Alone(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016) Bhandari, IshoraThis research examines Paulo Coelho‟s The Winner Stands Alone from the perspective of the postmodernist idea of subjectivity and agency against the traditional notion. For this, major characters like Igor, Ewa and Gabriela have strongly opposed the traditional figure of high class women. This research raises questions like, “why does Ewa leave Igor satisfy all”? In addition, “why does Coelho present Ewa‟s conflict with her husband and her conception of Igor as a mentally unbalanced man throughout the novel”? The implication is that, Paulo Coelho presents the traditional notion of one‟s subjectivity and the ideologies of emerging super class, which from the gap and rivalry between to their own individual identity. Ewa‟s act of dissatisfaction against Igor and Igor‟s anger towards the role of society is the protest against the traditional notion.Item Racial and Gender Trauma in Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016) Dam, SabitaThis research work analyzes racial and gender trauma evoking the tormented state of the narrator, Maya in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Taking the ideas from Jeffery C. Alexander‟s notion of cultural trauma, the research analyzes the experiences of depressed African American women without identities. The narrator struggles to develop her dignified self and nonconformist outlook comes to block her after she was raped by her mother‟s boyfriend Mr. Freeeman. The mysterious murder of her rapist creates the guilt, shame in her psychic as she thinks that she is responsible for his murder. The narrator suffering from the guilt and self-loathing resultsin her psychic turmoil. She stops speaking to people except her brother, Bailey. In the novel, Angelou tries to raise the voice of Black women to achieve dignified identity in the white racist and sexist America looking back on her childhood experiences. In this regard, this research aims to show reasons that cause the traumatic situation in the narrator due to several events that erupt in African American societies. Not only this, this research work explores issues related to the cause of racial and gender trauma and discusses how the narrator succeeds in working through trauma while in some cases the narrator just acts out it.Item Resistance Against Colonial Domination in Mulk Raj Anand’sTwo Leaves and a Bud(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016) Adhikari, SantoshThis research explores how Anand frames his novel Two Leaves and a Bud as a protest against exploitation of British Empire over Indian locals and natural resources. Anand, in this novel, through the medium of Indian coolies, protests against the brutality and bestiality of the British colonizers and their sycophants. Postcolonial theory is applied to explore the domination of British owners (colonizers) and resistance posed by the Indian workers in Macpherson Tea Estate, Assam. Gangu, who represents the colonized Indians, is exploited and dehumanized. His wife dies of a disease and he was killed while trying to protect his daughter from being raped by a British officer. Through the characters such as Gangu and John De La Harve, Anand makes the people conscious about the excessive exploitation of the British colonizers and resists against the colonial oppression. Through this novel Anand endeavors to develop the resistive mentality among the colonized Indians.Item Resistance to Patriarchal and Capitalist Ideologies in Jackie French's Slave Girl(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2015) Sapkota, JanardanThe present research seeks to foreground on resistance to patriarchal and ncapitalist Ideologies in Jackie French's Slave Girl. While analyzing the text, it makes use of the theoretical insights of Marxist Feminism. Marxist Feminism helps to analyze resistance to patriarchal and capitalist ideologies in Jackie French's Slave Girl. The basic thrust of this research is to withdraw the capitalist ideologies which is dominant in the text, as per female are subjugated and isolated by the patriarchal values. This research heavily relies in the theoretical insight of Valerie Bryson. Keeping this theoretical insight in mind, it is argued that Valerie Bryson changes the opinion and adapts the dominant commodification of the feminine subjectivity values. The feminine self of Elizabeth has been made subject to the absolute power that of the male practice. Sandra Bem, Monica Biernat, Peter Burke and Nancy Chodhrow are some of the thinkers of masculinity studies, on the strength of whom the research aims to find the dialectics of the masculine society which is keeping the special attention to the female protagonist being underestimated. The purpose of changing the male opinion and behaviour towards feminine existence is always silenced in terms of the opportunities and rights. The dream of equality always remains as the soap bubble as regards in the treatment towards the female race in general. The aim of the research is to uncover the dialectics of the patriarchal ideology. The masculinity in the novel tames the feminine self in terms of commodification. In order to assert the superiority of masculinity over femininity in the society the males do not allow the females to know everything about them and they use females as the workers, which the research attempts to dig out. The feminine self has been thwarted with the absolute power that of the males practice.Item Rootless Identity in Jamil Ahmad‟s The Wandering Falcon(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016) Khanal, Padam RajThe research discusses hybrid identity in Ahmad's The Wandering Falcon, as a cultural option when a person meets dual cultural standards. Due to the sense of adjustment in new cultural location, person is influenced by new culture. Having both cultural influence, a person redefines own identity as a hybrid one. The novel projects the pivotal character Tor Baz as a displaced person who adopts Mullah tribal culture to adjust in new situation. As Bhabha's notion about hybrid identity shows the modern cultural locations are being formed where a person influence from different cultural patterns. A person adopts new cultural pattern while being in new location. Having dual cultural locations, Tor Baz redefines his hybrid identity and accepts it as his new identity.