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Item Critique of Cosmopolitan Modernity in Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale(Department of English, 2019) Jha, Ritesh KumarUsing the concept of flaneuse by Janet Woolf, this research finds the difficulties and crises upon female characters in Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Most of the female characters in The Handmaid’s Tale are deviated from their cultural root and individual identity. They feel that the temptation to follow the westernized thought has distorted the taste and attitude of the young generation. The main character of this novel Offred belongs to the class of handmaid’s fertile women who is forced to bear children for elite, barren couples and rich human. Offred forgets cultural identity and her own background being lost in the value of western technocratic world. She comes in metropolitan American city to search her better life, but she becomes puppet the hands of different males in the city simply because she is a woman. Modernity promises about education, development, and betterment of humanity. However, modernity deteriorates Offered in the level of puppet despite enlightening her.Item Female Bonding in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help(Department of English, 2014) Lamichhane, KhagarajThe basic concern of this research is to explain how unity amidst Black women is a stepping stone in fighting against racial domination. Unities amidst Black women, who work as the maids in white families, have no option other than getting united for the sake of establishing equality and individual self-esteem. Black women like Aibileen, Minny and Skeeter have to face several hassles and hardship within the domestic world of the white ladies. From minor thing like using toilet to weekly pay, they are subjected to the serious hassles and hardships. In Kathryn Stockett's novel The Help, three major Black female characters help one another consistently. Eugenia Skeeter helps Aibileen, Minny and Constantine by publishing in Jackson League Daily those articles which directly deal with the harassment and segregation of Black women by their white employers. The perspective of female bonding, which lays emphasis on group identity and alliance amidst sisterhood in suffering, is the main theoretical window from which the growing alliance and unity amidst women are probed and examined critically. In this regard, it would be logically relevant to argue that female bonding is instrumental in putting an end to head of racist torture and patriarchal subjugation. In this case, this research appears as the brilliant case in point.Item Intersection of racial and sexual tension in McMillan's Waiting to Exhale(Department of English, 2014) Subedi, SunitaThe present research in Terry McMillan’s novel Waiting to Exhale deals with the negative impact of gender and race upon characters. It moves around the life of the four professional African American female characters, and their search for love, identity and empowerment. All these characters are guided by passion for finding “Mr. right” man in manmade society. These ladies are suffering from personal and professional life. They have to maintain their family and individual problems equally. Similarly, black male’s imitation of white values is equally important aspect of the novel. John imbibes the culture and customs of whites in order to show the superiority of whites in him. His desires to send his children to the school run by whites, makes his family environment like that of white and later getting married with white girl clearly shows his imitative nature.Item Representation of Female Characters in Abhi Subedi's Bruised Evenings(Department of English, 2011) Paneru, Nagendra PrasadThe present thesis entitled “Representation of Female Characters in Abhi Subedi’s Bruised Evenings” discusses the representation of women in the text. Female’s repressed desires are exposed in the text. In every bend of their lives, women encounter male domination and sometimes they are portrayed with the sense of resistance but at some other times they are represented as compromising with patriarchal regime. In the play two women characters, namely, Mayaju and Bhadrakali, initially, try to do away with patriarchy but at the end of the play they seem to be accepting it. Mayaju recieves freedom after she gets married with the traveller. Bhadrakali feels insecure in the absence of Bhairab and makes him stand beside her.Item Resistance to Orthodox Islamic Patriarchy in Bina Sharif’s My Ancestor’s(Department of English, 2014) Gautam, AngitaThis research on Bina sharif’s My Ancestor’s House seeks to represent the miserable conditions of women in contemporary Pakistan’s society and their resistance against repressive patriarchy. The females are extremely repressed by patriarchy with its social institutions. This study aims to show the stereotypical representation of pathetic female characters. Through the depiction of female characters, Bindia, Deedi, Sharif in My Ancestor’s House, tries to portray women’s resistance for their self identity. The female characters in the play are revolutionary to subvert the patriarchal norms and values mechanism of the contemporary society. The rebel of women against the patriarchy in the play becomes influential to subvert such male hegemony. It is the traditional belief and roles of females which restrict them to be confined within their own house. That is why, to be free from such hierarchical domination and exploitation, construction of female bonding and resistance to such oppressive patriarchal mechanism is inevitable.Item Subversion of patriarchy in Edward St Aubyn’s Mother’s Milk(Department of English, 2013) Rijal, KeshabThis research explores the female resistance against male superiority in Edward St Aubyn’s Mother’s Milk. Female characters use maternity/motherhood and sisterly solidarity to prove their identity and equal rights in the male society. By projecting, maternity and sisterly solidarity, women prove that maternity is not the burden imposed upon them; rather it is the power of agency and self realization through which they establish their own identity and superiority over male centered society. Most importantly, the research foregrounds the issue of maternity and sisterly solidarity is a strong way to fight male centered society. Moreover, throwing away the patriarchal imperatives of feminist, he intensifies the maternal voice against repressive patriarchal confinement. Thus, the female characters revolt against the males making their own way to freedom by undermining the male’s authority.