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Item Gender Relation, Matriarchy and Feminism in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath(Faculty of English, 2012) Bhattarai, SunitaCritics have argued that John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is a novel about social and inner changes. As the Joad family starts its journey to California, there organization of the family becomes essential to their survival. In times of material loss, Ma Joad breaks with patriarchal rules, emerges as the new leader of her family, and plays more than the housewife role assigned to the women of her time. She becomes, then, an essential figure to the maintenance of the family’s integrity. The aim of this study is to analyze the way in which the determination of new social values, especially those regarding the role of women in the family, occur in the novel, taking into consideration the historical context of migration in which the narrative takes place. The main argument of my thesis will be the violation of traditional norms of Patriarchy and highly welcoming Matriarchy in Steinbeck’s work The Grapes of Wrath,though several critics have argued about this piece of art on the Marxist ground. The migratory movement to the west contributes to the ascertaining of new social values and to the establishment of new family roles. With Pa Joad’s loss of control over his family during the journey, Ma is capable of breaking with the patriarchal ideology to assume a more influential position in the family. This thesis endorses some previous studies on The Grapes of Wrath, and represents an opportunity for new studies on the novel.Item A Marxist Study of Ammaraj Joshi's A Night's Drama(Department of English, 2012) Dhakal, DilaramThis research work has made anattempt to analyze conflict between different social groups in the context of social, economic and historical context of contemporary society. The stories of this collection present the lives of poor people mainly women and village grown youths from different social status to show the social arrangements. This work examines how lower class people are made the mere dreamers in Nepal and the manner of capitalists who possess economic privilege. The death of poor and extinction of identity in capitalists' society is the major issue that generates the main ideas of these stories.Item Pre-colonial Text as Colonial Discourse: A Postcolonial Reading(Faculty of English, 2014) Upadhyay, Toya NathThis study attempts to contextualize the pre-colonial text,The Journal of Christopher Columbus,within the paradigm of colonial discourse.For that purpose, it uses the concepts of postcolonial thinkers such as Ed ward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,Homi K Bhaba etc,and analyzes how the text creates a discourse of otherness and misrepresents the Native American people by various stereotypes like savages, cannibals, good people to be servants,timid, deficient of intelligence etc. The study finds The Journal implicated with four motives of Europe—glory, god, gold and govern—of the time which lead to the formation of the binary oppositions between the Europeans and the Native Americans. In this sense,it claims this text to be an originary colonial discourse that subsequently leads to the Spanish imperialism in the Americas.Hence,it also urges for the incorporation of pre-colonial texts like this in the corpus of postcolonial studies.For this purpose,it also borrows insights from the critics such as Robert St am,Ella Shohat, Enrique Dussel, Asselin Charles, Peter Hulme etc who have criticized the postcolonial theory for its negligence to the texts written around 1492. The thesis has been divided into five chapters. The first introduces The Journal as acolonial discourse, the postcolonial theory and the crux of the study. The second situates colonial discourse in the postcolonial theory. The third presents the historical contexts and motives of the exploration. The fourth reads The Journal through the postcolonial perspective and analyses how it is a colonial discourse. The last concludes that The Journal misrepresents the Native Americans and hence initiates the Spanish imperialism in the Americas. It also argues for the extension of the postcolonial theory to the pre-colonial contact period to include the texts of the period into its corpus of study.