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Item Critique of patriarchal ethos in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence(Department of English, 2013) Koirala, Lila RajThis study explores the identities of Jaya, Tara, Nayana and Nilima, the female characters in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence. The female characters oppose the exploitation of male ideology and female submission. Jaya explores her identity and collective women identity by critiquing the marriage institution and Hindu religious values and norms through the means of confessional writing. Her marriage is in brink of divorce through writing a story of a married couple. Despite of being in such condition, she wants to compromise with her husband if he accepts her conditions. Through the story of a married couple, she exposes the sufferings of married females who lose their freedom and are confined to house hold chores. Through this, she challenges the norms and values of the society because such kind of confessional writing is not allowed in patriarchal society. Hence, she violates the ethos of the society and revolts against traditional way of husband wife relation through exposing the suffering and breaking the age-old silence she establishes her individual identity. In this way, Jaya as a writer goes against the norms and values of the society for women identity. Tara tries to establish her identity by violating the traditional norms and values of the society by cursing her husband. Nayana also tries to establish her identity by challenging her husband and Nilima also wants to establish her individual identity by giving oppositional view and wants to get son's position in the family. So, she wants to cremate dead one in the family. Thus, these female characters go against the traditional ethos of the Indian Hindu religious society for their distinct identities as women.Item Dislocation and Crisis of Female Identity in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016-09) Pathak, GangaramThis paper examines how dislocation creates the crisis of female identity in the Karoo farm landscape, in Olive Schreiner‟s The Story of an African Farm. African farm owners are displace from their farm landscape by the colonizers. As a result, the farm workers have to face the problem of identity crisis. Englishman are responsible for brings Africans identity crisis, when Africans are displace from their own farm land, new settlers start lose their identity. They struggle to establish their identity on the Karoo farm land. The displace condition of African new settlers are hovering around the Karoo farm land to get their identity and place from the colonizers. The main victims are women whose identity is determine in relation to the place. Their placelessness represents their identity crisis in the Karoo farm landscape. The research method comprise of a wide review of relevant literature on the dislocation and identity crisis. And Bill Ashcroft‟s The Post-Colonial Studies Reader focuses upon the Post-Colonial issues such as Language, Place, History and Ethnicity of the colonized people in the colonial landscape. Elleke Boehmer‟s, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature Migrants Metaphors represents colonizers domination upon the colonized people and their landscape, where colonized people lose their identity. In the colonial world people are displace from their land and become identity less. This research paper shows that how the term „dislocation‟ is relating with the women‟s identity. Women‟s identity is connecting with the place; their attachment towards the place is their destiny for questing identity in the colonial territory. Colonizers control the place and displace them from their land. African new settlers are struggling hard to establish their identity and place in the Karoo farm landscape.Item Quest for Female Identity in Margaret Atwood`sCat`s Eye(Department of English, 2011) Chaudhary, PushpaThis research explores a female`s search for identity in Margaret Atwood`s Cat`s Eye. The protagonist of the novel Elaine Risely has a strong desire to be a painter but her father and her husband Jon alwaysrestricther creativity and standas a barrier in her creativity. They are the representative of the patriarchy and patriarchal society creates the utmost obstaclefor the female. Elaine is fedupand tied with society which does not lether makeself decision and createown identity. But Elaine resistsagainst the patriarchal rules for feminine freedom and to create her own identity asa successful painter. Elaine is victimized physically and mentally by male characters and through her consistent effort female identity and individuality is regained. She fightsfor the gender inequality and cross the limitations created by male in the society. At first she leaves her parents and lives alone,laterafter marriage she also leaves her husband who always oppressedher and lives with her daughter. Elaine represents the ideology of female and tries to redraw the boundary of patriarchy whichexisted in patriarchal society.