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Item Racial Stigma in Richard Wright’s Black Boy(Department of English, 2015) Shrestha, RamRichard Wright’s semi-autobiographical work, Black Boy, projects the issue of racial stigma. Black Boy is about the frustration and humiliation experienced by a sensitive Negro boy; it deals with the depression of the black. Wright uses himself as the protagonist to portray a society where inequality and man’s inhumanity is rampant. He openly criticizes the exclusionary policies and the politics of deprivation. For daring to challenge the racial politics and segregations, he is ostracized not only by the white but also by the Black. The narrator of the novel encounters numerous obstacles like ostracism, disappointment even in his house, racism and the highhandedness of the white. In this way, the narrator of Wright’s Black Boy suffers from double stigmatization. The pang of being ostracized and excluded from the social circle completely makes the narrator stigmatized.Item Representating the Voice of the Subalterns in Ha Jin's Waiting(Department of English, 2013) Tiwari, Durga PrasadHa Jin’s Waiting present research on explores projects the issue of subaltern consciousness. Even in the era dominated by the communist totalitarianism, subaltern people have struggled hard to raise their voices of dissent and disagreement. In Waiting the subaltern characters like Lin Kong and Manna fall prey to the restrictive and exclusionary policies of the communist dictator. While the upper class elite people freely enjoy the divorce rights and other additional packages of individual liberty, the subaltern people like Shuyu and others are subjected to the indescribable condition of suffering. Subaltern youths are so brainwashed and manipulated that they are forced to remain in the condition of psycho-sexual retardation. Although Kong being a doctor, his desire to divorce his wife Shuyu is not completed. Being an elite Dr. Kong is from a underprevelidged group so his voice is not listed and were all the characters here resembled subalterns group. Kong’s passionate attachment for Manna and his subsequent impotence after his marriage with her are twin evidences to show the fallout of vicious communist propaganda. The voices of the subaltern people are silenced. But Ha Jin manages to convey the subaltern concern and anxiety by using the perspective of subaltenrity.