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Item Fictionalization of History in Stephen Chobsky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower(Department of English, 2018) Adhikari, SusandeshPresentresearch efforts to search the fictional natureofhistory utilizing the newhistoricism as conceptualized by Michel Focault and Stephen Grenblat.This research casts light on how history is discursive and constructed phenomenonin Chobsky'snovelThePerks of Being Wallflower.This research probes into the unreliable character Charlie, one-eyed Jew living In America. He narrates the incidents in broken English with several discontinuities. Charliepresents a dreary, hellishpicture of America of the early 1990s.However, he withdraws his own narration in the course of novel. He even claims that he is not sure about the incidents happened in his life because he is suffering from mentalillness. Throughout the unreliable narrative of Charlie, Chobsky deconstructs the traditional notion of history as the matter of facts and he claims that history is the matter of fabricated power politics. Keywords:History, Discourse, Fictionalization, Knowledge, Perspective, Truth, HolocaustItem Fictionalization of South African Apartheid History in J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron(Department of English, 2018) Upadhyaya, Binod PrasadThe research entitled “Fictionalization of South African Apartheid History in John Maxwell Coetzee’s (1940)Age of Iron” (1990) examines how Coetzee’s novel fictionalizes South African Apartheid history during the late 1980s and analyzes the politics of Coetzee behind the narration of South African history.Coetzee’s novel fictionalizes South African Apartheid history as an alternative history. South Africa (1980s) depicts as an age of iron where apartheid holds the country in a tight grip and the media are controlled by the Afrikaner government to keep the people ignorant. MrsCurren, narrator refers to South Africa as the hell on the earth and tells her daughter this story to learn about the contemporary situation of South Africa. The research applies new historicism as a literary theory to examine Coetzee’s novel. It based on John Brannigan’s book of New Historicism and Cultural Materialism in which he argues that new historicism as a mode of literary studies in exploring the relationship between literature and history, and in demonstrating the ideological and political interest operating through literary texts. Furthermore, itdepends on Peter Barren’s book of Beginning Theory: An Introduction of Literary and Cultural Theory in which he argues that new historicism is a method of parallel reading of literary and non-literary text with in its certain context and historical period. In short, by narrating the reality of South African Apartheid history, Coetzee attempts to build the identity of blacks and helps to establish peace as well as harmony between whites, colored and blacks.Item Unearthing the Historicity in Ian McEwan's Atonement(Department of English, 2017) Joshi, Khagendra RajThis research using the concept of new historicism as conceptualized by Mitchel Foucault and Stephen Grenblatt casts light on how history is discursive and constructed phenomenon throughout the character Briony .This research probes into the unreliable character MrBrionyTallis,who witnesses an event which she knows holds some kind of significance.Yet her limited understanding of adult motives leads her to commit a crime that will change the lives of everyone involved. As she grows older, she begins to understand her actions and the grief that has been caused. Briony has a tendency to lie or, rather, avoid the truth in an attempt to disguise her responsibility for the crime and proceeding events and, more prominently, to satisfy her grieving and somewhat selfish conscience; one could even go so far as to say it is a confession and an impersonal account told to the memories of her deceased sister, Cecilia, and the wrongly accused, Robbie. However, she withdraws her own narration in the course of novel. Briony’s narrative turns to be constructive and fictitious at the end of the novel.