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Item Critique of Consumerist Culture in West’s The Day of the Locust(Facuty of Art in English, 2018-04) Adhikari, BinodThe present research paper analyzes the fragmentation and artificiality caused by consumerist culture in Nathanael west’s The Day of the Locust. Beside this, the researcher has tried to find how the social rule, costume, human desires, languages, families and materialistic desires are determined by the state, how state rules over common people and attempts to prove how state agencies break the natural desires of the people. Moreover, it tries to find out how the protagonist, Tod and other common characters are compelled to live under the shadow of capitalist ideology due to the desires of ‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness’. In order to analyze the text, the researcher has brought the idea of Louis Althusser’s Ideological state apparatus. On the basis of Althusserian ideology, the research establishes an idea how the state ideologies shape desires of the ordinary people in the society and how common people have become victims of consumerist culture.Item Fictionalization of History in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated(Department of English, 2017) Suhang, LaxmiUsing the theory of new historicism as conceptualized by Michael Foucault and Stephen Greenblatt, this research explores new history i.e. discursive and constructed phenomenon in the novel Everything is Illuminated. This research probe intothe unreliable character Alex, one eyed i.e. living with his grandfather in Ukraine. He narrates the incidents in broken English with several discontinuities. Alex presents a dreary, hellish picture of Ukraine of the late 1960's. However, he withdraws hisown narration in the curse of novel. He even claims that he is not sure about the incidents of World War II and holocaust. Throughout the unreliable narrative of Alex Foer deconstructs the traditional notion of history as the matter of facts and he claimsthat history is the matter of fabricated power politics Keywords:History, Linearity, Fragmentation, Holocaust, Jews, Memory, DeceptionItem Proletarian Realism in Hemingway's To Have and Have Not.(Department of English, 2006) Kandel, Hira LalThe present research work is the study of proletarian's reality in capitalist society. The research is able to show the emancipatory and inevitable change of society in course of time. The life style of both "haves" and "haves-not" people closely examined through their experiences. Like Harry Morgan, Richard Gordon's mission was to establish socialism by awakening the common people. Harry Morgan showsheroism and stoicism in collapsing world. He struggled against those who have the abounding amount of wealth without labour. Richard Gordon's characterization advocates class struggle of the proletariat against the ruling authority. This research work is able to show the fragmentation, disharmony and alienation of individual in capitalist society.Item Psychological repression of women in Anita Desain's fire on the mountain(Department of English, 2019) Dawadi, ChhayaThe thesis focuses on the Psychological Repression of Women in Anita Desain's Fire on the Mountain. Women in the third world are psychologically repressed as they have to follow patriarchy and take orders. Their identity is associated with male members of their families. The characters in the novel suffer from psychological repression. The women characters are modern and they want to go beyond patriarchy seeking freedom and independence. However, they face many problems. The women are caught in-between traditional and modern roles. The study focuses on the psychological repression of women from the perspective of third world feminism. Traditionally, women are expected to be confined within their houses and nurture children and other family members. However, the women in the novel like to be westernized and want to live in their own. Consequently, they face innumerable problems in their society. Nanda Kaul wants to live solitude life after her husband’s death but gets disturbed when she receives letters from her daughter. She is irritated by the disturbance. Raka, her granddaughter, disturbs her life by intruding her loneliness. Ila Das is close to them but Nanda feels bad when she hears that Das is raped and killed. Thus, the characters suffer from patriarchal system controlling them socially and psychologically.Item Redefining Gender Identity in Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless(Department of English, 2022) Dahal, GirirajThis thesis analyzes gender identity in Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless in the light of gender performativity. Acker through the central characters in the novel tries to redefine a gender role that has been rooted socially and culturally. Gender identity is the center of the novel and she emphasized her female character voice as a woman to be recognized and wants to deconstruct the social taboos that restrict the woman in a patriarchal society. In Kathy's Empire, she challenged the structural belief of gender ideology and the ways of arranging the power in society according to the social construct. She tries to break the structure of society that is designed to differentiate the gender ideology for male and female. To examine the gender role in this thesis, this thesis has used the theoretical lens of Judith Butler's concepts of gender performativity. Abhor, the novel's protagonist transgresses the constructed gender identity for females through fragmented gender role. Acker tries to show the point of departure from the conventional concept of gender ideology. The significance of the study is to explore the real meaning of gender roles. The traditional way of dealing with gender roles as the biological concept of gender is opposed by creating a constructed 'human-made women. ' Hence this thesis tries to dig out how the conventional notion of gender identity and sexual fragmentation altered in the novel.Item "The Significance of Unity of Being" in Thomas Stearns Eliot's Play The Confidential Clerk(Department of English, 2008) Tiwari, RajuThomas Stearns Eliot has dramatized the age of loneliness, fragmentation, dislocation and desperation in the playTheConfidential Clerk.Most of the characters in the play,ColbySimpkin , Sir Claude Mulhammer,B.Kaghan, Lady Elizabeth Mulhammer and Lucasta Angel suffer from loneliness, dislocationand fragmentation. Colby, oneofthemajor characters of the play around whom theplayrevolves, suffers from disharmony between his profession and vocation. Vocationally he wants to be an organist of the church. But for his livelihood (professionally)he has been compelled to be a confidential clerk of Sir Claude. Moreover Colby, Lady Elizabeth and Kaghan donot know their parents and relatives. Now thequestion is:in spite of their suffering how do they exist meaningfully?What this research probes into. Colby's keen desire (free will) to be a musician in the play is the key to initiate the unity within self, within the family and with the Divine. For the meaningful existence, all the characters struggle alot. In the end of the play, unityin the family is maintained. Moreover, all the characters have religious faith. Unityin the family means unity in the world. Whenever thereisunity in the world,peace, harmony, co-operation, co-existence and brotherhood can be maintained.Item Storytelling, Text, and Memory in Robert J. Conley's Mountain Windsong(Department of English, 2006) Shiwakoti, SuvadraRabert J. Conley's novelMountain Windsongattempts to recreate the forgetten history of American natives through the narrative technique of storytelling.Thenovel is a story toldby Grandfather to Grandsonwhichincludeslegends, historical documents, anecdotes, songetc.thatforegroundthe oral tradition of nativesas their cultural identity to resist Anglo-Americans. Conley shelters on natural phenomena and storytelling tradition as alternative space. He confirms his affinity to the marginalized natives. The novel presents Oconeechee and Waguli as lovers, whose separation due to Trail of Tearsresemblesthe plight of Cherokeesas a whole. Conley narrates the unheard voiceof nativesadopting varities of fragmentationand thus, deconstructingthegrand narratives. Withthis novel, he gives a voice to those voices, whichwere unheard in official history of U.S. andgives the shapeof text to recreate Cherokeecultural identitybyresistingtheAnglo-Americans.